Chapter 47: Turning Back Halfway
[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, March 13, Xushi, Xufu Hazelnut Residence]
After Xu Ke said goodbye to Xue Tao, he traveled all the way to the vicinity of Daning Fang. He thought about it again and again, but suddenly changed his mind, and did not go to Zhao Wangfu, but turned his head to the west and went straight to his Xu Mansion.
He knew that as soon as he stepped into the gate of King Zhao's mansion, the fate of the more than 1,600 displaced people in Chang'an City would be rewritten. Even if they can all reach Xuchang Mansion safely, how will they survive in the future? If these people will inevitably die in a foreign land in the end, then it is themselves today who will change their fate!
Now he is no longer an ordinary person, and the person he is about to meet is the deputy pavilion master of the Great Qianshen King Pavilion who moves the world, Li Yi, the king of Zhao. If you have a wrong thought, you will decide the life and death of more than 1,000 people, can you not be cautious in the choice between them?
The most important thing is that he suddenly thought of Hu Yiyi, the Bibo fairy who lives in his Xu Mansion, isn't she also a great demon who has practiced for more than 1,200 years? Since they both belong to the demon class, maybe Sister Hu has a way to subdue that cat demon. Thinking of this, Xu Ke changed his route to the west and went straight to his home.
After entering the gate, he hurried to the door of the Hazelling Residence. At this time, it was the end of the day, and the entire Xu Mansion was silent. He was worried that Hu Yiyi had fallen asleep, so he didn't want to go in to disturb him, but when he came, he saw the lights on in the Hazel Residence, and he heard Hu Yiyi walking out slowly, as if he had walked into the small courtyard, so he walked to the courtyard door and whispered to the courtyard:
"Sister Hu, you ...... Did you sleep?"
Before long, I saw the courtyard door open from the inside, and Hu Yiyi's smiling and graceful shadow came from the hazy moonlight:
"I wanted to sleep, but when I was called by you, my sister couldn't sleep!" Hu Yiyi's eyebrows curved into a crescent moon, with a smile like a spring breeze on her face, and said softly:
"What's the matter? You're back so late!
Xu Ke hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "I am not sick and presumptuous, and I have to harass my sister late at night." If my sister is free, I have a question in my heart and want to ask my sister for help!"
Hu Yiyi nodded and said, "It's okay! Actually...... Sister, I want to have a good chat with you!" She walked out of the courtyard gate, closed the courtyard door gently, and said: "Sister Zibei has already slept, then let's go to the Wenyu Pavilion to sit down!" The two walked towards the Wenyu Pavilion in the back garden of the Xu Mansion.
When Xu Ke took a seat in the Wenyu Pavilion, Hu Yiyi ran to the front hall, brewed two cups of Huayu tea by himself, and brought it to the pavilion in the back garden, and the two sat together in the Wenyu Pavilion, drinking tea and admiring the moon at the same time.
Xu Ke wanted to speak several times, but the words came to his lips several times, but he didn't know how to speak. He didn't know what was going on, facing the Sister Hu in front of him, he couldn't help but have a subtle feeling in his heart.
What kind of feeling is that? A little bit of joy, a little bit of shyness, a little bit of curiosity, a little bit of bewilderment, quite a bit of attachment, and then much more...... But it's embarrassing!
He no longer knows how to position his current relationship with Hu Yiyi. Is it a relative, but not a relative, a brother and sister, not a brother and a sister, but a husband and wife?...... Certainly not husband and wife!
It's just that he has stayed in the Divine King's Pavilion for too long, as if his life has already been spent there. On the contrary, in his life today, he sometimes feels alienated.
Perhaps, everything that is happening today is not real, and it is just a dream of mine in the Pavilion of the God King?
Perhaps, I'm still in the Divine King's Pavilion? It's just that I have changed a life wheel, and in the future, I will return to that Jiazi 12-line life wheel!
What made him most confused and confused was naturally that he was in the God King Pavilion, through the power of the Cloud Shadow Bead to travel through time and space, and came to the future ten years later. In that future world, in that Jiazi twelve-line life wheel, he and the future Hu Yiyi have become a real husband and wife, they live and die together, they love me and me, and they are entangled...... Almost every couple has done and should do it.
Now, although he is back ten years ago, back to the wheel of life that originally belonged to him, but after all, those lingering pasts are the lives he has really experienced, and at this moment, when he faces the real "Hu Yiyi", how should he get along with it?
"In the end, am she and I sisters and brothers, or husband and wife?"
To this day, Xu Ke still can't tell whether the Hu Yiyi in front of him is "Hu Yiyi", or the "Hu Yiyi" in the 12-line life wheel of Jiazi, is the real Hu Yiyi.
Whenever Xu Ke wanted to treat Hu Yiyi as his sister, the scene in the 12th line of life wheel in Jiazi would appear in front of him. On the same day in Xuchang Tucheng, he had a seizure of long-horned essence medicine, so he hugged Hu Yiyi...... In the Hazel House in the ruins of Chang'an, he entered Hu Yiyi's room again and again, and lingered with her......
"Ahem, those past events, how can you forget?!"
Xu Ke sometimes thought to himself, he knew that he was so embarrassed today, so he simply begged the Bai Lao Pavilion Master to cast a spell and completely erase those memories for himself!
However, he thought that once it was really time to clear them, how could he be willing to leave these good memories behind!
Even, even when he traveled to a month ago, he and his second brother Zhu Wuineng went to Yingzhou Baqi Island to kill monsters, he was unwilling to leave behind. Naturally, he still couldn't let go of Yoshida Ryoko who looked exactly like Hu Yiyi in his heart for a long time.
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"Ahem......" Xu Ke took a sip of tea and looked out of the pavilion with his eyes.
At this time, the bright moon is in the sky, and the moonlight is soft like a gentle girl. She walked softly from the sky, with her soft little hands, gently stroked the green mountains, stroked the green water, stroked the houses and buildings in Xu's mansion, stroked every grass and tree in the back garden, and even with Xu Ke's fragile and sentimental heart, she was also gently stroked by her soft little hands......
"What a beautiful moonlight!" Xu Ke couldn't help but let out a heartfelt admiration in his heart.
Hu Yiyi heard that Xu Ke had something to ask, so she came to the Wenyu Pavilion in the back garden with him and sat down, but at this time she saw that Xu Ke was admiring the moon and did not talk to her, she couldn't help but wonder in her heart.
Not only tonight, since Xu Ke successfully left the Divine King Pavilion, she felt that every time this little innocent looked at her, it was always weird. As for what kind of feeling it was, she couldn't tell it clearly, as if she was deliberately distant, and she seemed to be a little shy. She didn't know why, anyway, since that day, Xu Ke has always spoken to her every time, speaking of which, she and Xu Ke have not been like tonight for many days, only the two of them sit opposite each other, quietly drinking tea and admiring the moon.
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Finally, it was Hu Yiyi who broke the silence and asked first: "Xiao Wuxi, what you want to ask, but the case that broke out in Chang'an City?"
Xu Ke finally came back to his senses, so he replied: "Sister Hu, do you know that in this case in Chang'an City, twelve men have died so far, and all of them are corpses on the streets, and the death is particularly terrifying!"
"Twelve men?" Hu Yiyi said with some surprise: "That...... Have you ever found out who committed the crime?"
Xu Ke said: "It has now been ascertained that the culprit in this case is the cat demon Mao Jiaojiao! She also has a nickname, called 'He Alloy Fairy'!"
"Jiaojiao?" Hu Yiyi's expression was even more surprised, and she immediately asked: "Xiao Wuxi, are you not mistaken? The murderer in this case is really Mao Jiaojiao?"
Xu Ke nodded and said: "Sister Hu, there are two men, although they fell into Mao Jiaojiao's 'Harmony Technique', fortunately they were discovered early, and they were diagnosed and treated by a famous doctor, and they survived by luck." One of these two people is an ordinary young man in the south of the city, named 'Wanqiu Mountain', and the other is the head of the household department, named 'Zhang Bo', after they woke up, they personally depicted the appearance of the fierce demon, and there is no doubt that they are Mao Jiaojiao!"
Hu Yiyi was suspicious and said: "Xiao Wuxi, the two you said are called 'Wanqiushan' and 'Zhang Bo', they have never seen Mao Jiaojiao's face, how do they know that the person who bewitched them is Mao Jiaojiao? Maybe they are mistaken, and they don't know ......?"
Xu Ke said: "Sister Hu, the two of them have never seen Mao Jiaojiao's appearance, but no one in Chang'an City knows Mao Jiaojiao, and there are two people in my Tsing Yi Wei who know the appearance of the cat demon
Seeing that Hu Yiyi still had a skeptical expression, Xu Ke had to pause and say: "Oh! Sister, it's really not a secret, not only Wan Qiushan and Zhang Bo, even I have seen that cat demon!"
At the moment, Xu Ke had to go out in disguise to attract demons in the middle of the night on the third day of the third month of March, and bumped into Mao Jiaojiao in the dense forest on the outskirts of the south of the city.
"Original...... It turns out that you have already met Jiaojiao that night......" Hu Yiyi lowered her head and muttered.
"Ahem! It's all my fault, if I hadn't let her go at that time, Chang'an City wouldn't have died eight people in succession!" Xu Kewu said with remorse.
Unexpectedly, Hu Yiyi suddenly stood up and saluted Xu Keyi: "Xiao Wuxi, sister wants to thank you!"
Xu Ke hurriedly got up, helped Hu Yiyi, and wondered, "What does my sister want to thank me?"
Hu Yiyi sighed: "My sister wants to replace my ninth sister, thank you for not killing!"
"Ah......?" At this moment, it was Xu Ke's turn to be stunned, and he immediately asked, "Ninth sister......?" This notorious cat demon turned out to be Sister Hu's sister?!"
"Ahem......" Hu Yiyi sighed, waved her hand to signal Xu Ke to sit down, she herself returned to her stone bench and sat down, took a shallow sip of the teacup, and said: "Jiaojiao and I are both sisters and sisters, and sisters, counting, my sister has known her for nearly a thousand years before I met you......"
So, until this moment, Hu Yiyi finally told Xu Ke about her long and long past.
It turned out that Hu Yiyi, Shu Hattian, Mao Jiaojiao and others were all brothers and sisters. There were twelve of them in total, all of whom were from the same school, and each had his own unique skills. They actually grew up in Muzhou in the west since they were young, and after completing their studies, Shizun ordered them to leave Muzhou and come to this Shenzhou to settle down.
After Hu Yiyi came to Shenzhou, he visited the mountains and rivers in various places, and still preferred the island scenery. So, she chose an island in eastern Zhejiang to settle down, and since then she has devoted herself to practicing medicine, and called herself "Bibo Fairy". Although she is located in a corner of the island, she will leave the island every spring and autumn to treat people everywhere, and she does not charge any paperwork fees. The people along the coast of eastern Zhejiang, who have been diagnosed by the "Bibo Fairy", most of them admire her name and praise it one after another, and even more, they will build her tablet at home, pray every day, and worship her as a god.
And his younger brother Shu hated the sky, but he was a person who couldn't bear the loneliness, and ran out before staying on the island for a few days. Just because he loves to read books and never seeks to understand, he gave himself the nickname of "half-understanding book fairy". Shu hattian walks around the rivers and lakes all the year round, his kung fu is originally good, and he loves to fight unevenly, and most of the gangs in the rivers and lakes know the name of "half-solved book fairy", and most of them are quite jealous of him. Shu Hattian's best kung fu is naturally the technique of "empty hands". is because he has robbed the rich and helped the poor for many years, I don't know how many rich and rich people he has stolen, and I don't know how many poor and orphaned people he has helped, no matter what, his reputation as a "book fairy" is much more than Hu Yiyi.
Among their twelve siblings, Hu Yiyi is the oldest in practice. However, in terms of real kung fu, it is her second brother "Flowing Frost Sword Immortal" Lu Huoli. After Lu Huoli came to Shenzhou, it was probably necessary to cultivate the "Frost Sword Qi" in his body, so that he could choose an extreme northern place to settle down, which happened to be the territory of Xiao Guo.
Lu Huoli had been hiding in Xiao Guo and silently cultivating his Frost Swordsmanship. Later, for some reason, he was keen on fame and stood on the temple of Xiao State, until forty years ago, the emperor of Xiao State worshipped him as a national teacher and put him in charge of teaching the crown prince. Now, the old emperor of Xiao State is already ancient, after the crown prince ascended the throne as the new emperor, he naturally respected this former teacher very much, and Xiao Guo, regardless of the officials and people, saw Lu Guoshi as if he saw the emperor.
Mao Jiaojiao ranks ninth with a thousand years of practice, and she and her second brother Lu Huoli have been inseparable since childhood. Later, Mao Jiaojiao somehow provoked the pursuit of the top swordsman on the rivers and lakes, and in order to avoid the pursuit of the enemy, she simply hid in Xiao Guo and took refuge under the protection of her second brother.
In the past few decades, Hu Yiyi heard that Mao Jiaojiao and Lu Huoli have been staying in Xiao Guo and enjoying a free and easy life. But on the twenty-second of last month, Mao Jiaojiao suddenly appeared in the Hazel Ling residence in Xufu, and she realized that her second brother and ninth sister had suddenly come to Chang'an......
When Xu Ke heard this, he couldn't help but interject and ask: "Sister Hu, what are the plans of these two people who suddenly came to Chang'an City?"
Hu Yiyi said: "I've been guessing until I just now, I roughly guessed that my second brother may have come here to assassinate a certain prince of the Qianguo." ”
"Assassinate the prince?" Xu Ke wondered, "He came all the way to assassinate the prince?"
Hu Yiyi said: "He did this, naturally he wanted to disturb the court of Qianguo, so that Xiao Guo could take advantage of the chaos!"
Xu Ke asked, "Sister Hu, in your opinion, if he wants to assassinate a certain prince, which one do you think it will be......?"
Hu Yiyi nodded at Xu Ke, and the two said in unison: "King Wei!"
Xu Ke couldn't help but gasp, he thought about it for a while, and immediately knew the other party's plan.
At this moment, there is no better way to disturb the Qianguo than to assassinate the King of Wei, and even if he assassinates Li Chongsheng, the son of the emperor, it may not be of such great use.
Assassinating the Son of Heaven, not only is there not much chance of winning, even if it succeeds, after the death of the Son of Heaven, according to the name and prestige of the King of Wei, all the civil and military ministers will also support the King of Wei to ascend the throne. Even if the other princes disagreed, they couldn't set off much of a storm. But once Li Jin, the king of Wei, was assassinated by Lu Huoli, if the Son of Heaven could not withstand the blows again and again and unfortunately died, and none of the remaining princes would obey anyone, then, for the Qianguo, it would be a disaster like an avalanche!
Xu Ke also had to admit that the other party's strategy was not poisonous!
"However, that day in the Hazelling Residence, I told the ninth sister and asked them to change the target of the assassination to King Zhao's ......" Hu Yiyi told Xu Ke about the conversation between her and Mao Jiaojiao that day.
"It's just that I don't know if I can fool my second brother with those lies at that time?" Hu Yiyi continued.
Xu Ke said worriedly: "Sister Hu, this matter is very high, why did you not tell me until today?!"
Hu Yiyi looked apologetic and said: "Xiao Wuxi, my sister originally wanted to talk to you a long time ago, but they are all my younger brothers and sisters, my sister is a little hesitant in her heart after all, besides, my sister has wanted to talk to you several times in the past few days, but you are so busy every day, and my sister can't find you!"
Hu Yiyi said that it is indeed the truth, in the past few days, Xu Ke has been busy holding meetings on Tsing Yiwei during the day, and after dressing up again at night, he will go out to attract demons, where is there still a moment to chat with Hu Yiyi?
Of course, what Hu Yiyi didn't expect was that although Xu Ke was busy these days, he deliberately avoided Hu Yiyi several times, and he still didn't dare to face her......
In fact, what Xu Ke didn't dare to face the most was not Hu Yiyi, nor Yiqing and Yao Zibei, but Murong Yan, the eldest lady of Tianbao Pavilion. In this way, since Xu Ke came out of the Divine King Pavilion, except for having dinner with Murong Yan on the night of February 22, he has not seen "Yan'er" for more than ten days.
Several times, on the way home from duty, Xu Ke wanted to take a trip to Tianbao Pavilion in the northwest of Chang'an City, but several times, he still turned back halfway. He always couldn't muster up the courage to face Murong Yan in this world. Perhaps in his mind, what he has always lingered on is the "Murong Yan" who is struggling with him in the dark. He still can't forgive himself, why can't he say goodbye to the "Yan'er" there on the day of parting......
"What's the matter? Xiao Wuxi, are you still blaming your sister? Sister is also a last resort......" Seeing that Xu Ke was suddenly silent, Hu Yiyi thought that he was blaming, and said with a slight sense of grievance.
"No, no, no!" Xu Ke hurriedly waved his hand and said: "How can you blame my sister for being sick! My sister can tell me all the secrets of your demon clan, that is a great trust in Wuxi......! I need to inform King Zhao and King Wei of this matter quickly, so that both of them must be on their guard!"
"Hmm!" Hu Yiyi nodded and said, "Without further ado, Xiao Wuxi, it is better for you to meet King Zhao tonight and let him prepare early." I heard that King Zhao's magic skills are world-famous, but my second brother's martial arts should not be underestimated, at this moment he is in the dark, King Zhao is in the light, you have to remind King Zhao, let him strengthen the vigilance of the palace, and be careful when traveling!"
"Zhao Wangfu......" Xu Ke then remembered that he had just returned from the vicinity of Zhao Wangfu, and he came to Hu Yiyi tonight to solve a problem that had been haunting his mind. But when they talked for a long time in the Wenyu Pavilion, he hadn't had time to ask that question until now!
"Sister Hu, there is still a doubt about being sick, please teach me!"
"Well, you say!"
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