Chapter 174: The Strange Affair of Hongcheng
The night is dark and the wind is high, hundreds of miles away in the city of Hongzhou.
Two black shadows, one after the other, emerged from the wall of a mansion. Both of them walked like a fly, scurrying down the long street.
After a long time, there were alarms in the courtyard wall, and the fire was bright.
Bang, the gate opened, and dozens of nurses rushed out of the door, but saw that the long street was empty, and there was still half a figure.
The black shadow was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, it had already run out for miles, around a few street corners, until it reached the downstairs of an inn, and suddenly jumped into the window facing the street on the second floor.
It was an ordinary room, simply furnished, but very clean.
The dark shadow sat down leisurely at the table, untied the face towel casually, and then lit the oil lamp on the table.
The firelight flickered, flickering bright and dark, reflecting a handsome and extraordinary face, although there was a little more wind and frost between the eyebrows, the expression was as resolute as ever, not Shen Zhuoyu, who is it.
He picked up the teapot, poured a cup of tea, and drank it all in one gulp.
At this time, another black shadow crawled in from the window, Shen Zhuoyu didn't turn his head, glanced at the corner of his eye, and said coldly: "When are you going to follow?"
The black shadow grinned, his voice was very good, he twisted his waist and walked closer, sat on his lap next to Shen Zhuoyu, and said softly: "The slave family neither wants you to raise nor hurt you, and often helps you a lot, you are still so disgusted, you really have no conscience......" She raised her hand lightly, took off the black veil on her face, and turned out to be a charming national girl, and while speaking, the other hand had hooked Shen Zhuoyu's neck.
"Hmph!" Shen Zhuoyu suddenly left her seat, and the girl was caught off guard and exclaimed. Almost wrestling.
She wasn't angry, and brushed her slightly messy bangs. Still looking at Shen Zhuoyu with affection, he smiled: "You." It's always so frizzy, if you fall and hurt the slave family, you're afraid you'll have to feel distressed......"
When Shen Zhuoyu heard this, he really had nowhere to vent his anger, so he shook his head helplessly: "Mu Ke'er, since you escaped from General Han, you have been following me, from Jiangnan to Jiangbei, and from Jiangbei to Jiangnan. Wherever I go for nearly a year, within three days, you will appear. I don't know how you found me, I just want to tell you that if you are obsessed again, don't blame me for being cold-blooded and ruthless, tie you up on the spot, and hand it over to General Han for disposal!"
The girl is Mu Keer. Just when Shen Zhuoyu was talking ruthlessly, she kept her hands on her cheeks and listened very seriously, so she listened to it at this time. actually laughed softly, but she was glared at by Shen Zhuoyu's serious gaze, and she had to hold back. Pretending to be serious, he nodded and said, "Okay...... You want to tie up the slave family. Bundle it up, you guy. It must have been a bad idea to beat people for a long time, so I want to find a suitable reason to tie them up, so it's good...... It's good ......."
"You!" Shen Zhuoyu was really angry, stretched out his hand and pointed at the end of her nose for a long time, wanting to scold her for being shameless, but she couldn't say it after all, and in a fit of anger, she slapped her palm on the wooden table.
With a bang, the wooden table shattered to the ground, and Shen Zhuoyu shook his head away, "What do you like, forgive me for not accompanying you!" He lay down on the bed, pillowed his head with his hands, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Mu Ke'er smiled, didn't speak, and sat down on the bench gently. She didn't say a word, just looked sideways at Shen Zhuoyu on the bed, her beautiful eyes flowed, she stayed on his face for a long time, her heart was beating wildly, and she said secretly: If you can look at him like this for the rest of your life, you will be content...... Thinking about it, her pretty face was full of happiness.
Since she escaped from Han Shizhong's capture, she has been following Shen Zhuoyu.
At first, Shen Zhuoyu was hostile to her, and she fought with her several times, but she naturally couldn't fight, so she had to stay away. After a few days, she followed again, Shen Zhuoyu drove her away again, she stopped for a few days and continued to follow, so repeatedly, many times, Shen Zhuoyu slowly changed her opinion. Now there is no choice but to let her go.
After that, Shen Zhuoyu traveled all over the country, acting chivalrous and righteous, eliminating violence and peace, and destroying Manichaean altars in various places one by one. Not only did she not stop it, but she even did not hesitate to apostasy and did her best to help. All of this was just for the love at first sight of the day, for that serious, cautious expression.
There are no regrets along the way, and before you know it, a year has passed. She saw that Shen Zhuoyu's breathing was gradually steady, and she had already fallen asleep, so she sighed in an inaudible voice: "Stupid, if you fall into this girl's 'Thousand Miles', how can you easily run away...... Eh...... But what is going on in your heart......" She sat with her knees folded, closed her eyes in doubt, and after a while, she fell into a deep sleep.
In her sleep, she saw Shen Zhuoyu fleeing again, leaving her with a back and going farther and farther.
Mu Ke'er reached out to grab it, desperately shouting at him to stop, but the back was extremely decisive, this moment, she woke up suddenly, her back was covered with cold sweat, and she suddenly realized that the room was empty, and Shen Zhuoyu was really gone.
She turned her head to see that it was already dark, and the noise of people and horses on the street could be heard from time to time.
"He ran away again?!" Mu Ke'er panicked, didn't bother to take off her night clothes, rushed out of the door, and went downstairs. In the hall downstairs, the guests who came to eat breakfast came and went, and the shouts of Xiao Er came and went, which was very lively.
She was dressed strangely, which inevitably attracted attention, and for a while, the eyes of all the guests were cast on her, and when they saw her graceful figure and beautiful nature, the gaze became more and more indispensable, and even the breakfast on the plate was forgotten.
Mu Ke'er was originally looking around for Shen Zhuoyu, but only then did he realize that something was wrong, and when he looked down, he secretly said that it was bad.
"Ke'er, you're still standing, come here!" At this time, a clear voice came, and everyone turned their heads to look, but saw a handsome young man sitting alone in an inconspicuous corner, eating hot buns with his head down, and a thing wrapped around his back, wrapped in a black cloth, and he couldn't see what it was.
He never seemed to look up, and he didn't know how he saw the woman in black.
When Mu Ke'er heard the voice, her body trembled, and her heart was even more chaotic. I had no idea how I got to him or how I sat down.
Seeing this posture, everyone knew that this man and woman should be a couple, and they immediately lost interest. I continued to eat my breakfast, only to have one thought in my heart: one more flower. How did it end up on this lump of cow dung? I ignored the fact that Mu Ke'er was wearing a nightwalking suit.
"What do you want to do when you come out without changing your clothes?" the man asked in a low voice. There was no joy or anger on his face, of course he was Shen Zhuoyu, just because he was sitting in the corner, Mu Ke'er couldn't see it just now.
Mu Ke'er's cheeks were slightly red, and she said softly: "The slave family is anxious for a while......"
"That's it......" Shen Zhuoyu sighed and said no more.
Mu Ke'er trembled, glanced at him from time to time, and then covered his mouth and snickered again.
"Driving-" With a rapid sound of urging horses, three or four fast horses suddenly galloped outside the restaurant. Rampage, startling hawker pedestrians to dodge in surprise.
"Iniquity, these people are not alive early in the morning, and the rich are really great. The big man at the side table looked at the man on horseback in a brocade dress, squinted his eyes, and said sourly.
The bald old man on the side smiled sheepishly and said, "Hehe, it's not true, rich people also suffer from crimes...... Have you heard that something big happened to Master Liu's house last night!"
As soon as this statement came out. Shen Zhuoyu and Mu Ke'er's faces changed slightly, and Shen Zhuoyu's eyebrows wrinkled slightly, looking at the bald old man who was talking.
"Master Liu, what do you mean Master Liu from Xicheng?" Dahan looked incredulous. "That old man's compound is big, and there are hundreds of thugs and guards, so what big thing can happen! If you don't say that I forgot, then Master Liu seems to be going to have a happy event again. ”
"What's the happy thing?" the bald old man laughed.
Da Hanqi said: "That's right. I had heard a few days ago that the old man was going to marry a young girl. For this, he also forced the girl's father to death...... Eh, tell me, that old man is older than you, what are you doing to marry so many daughters-in-law?"
The bald old man couldn't hold back a laugh, "I'll tell you, his daughter-in-law shouldn't be able to marry!"
Dahan scratched his head, puzzled, the bald old man patted him on the shoulder, attached it to his ear and said, "When I passed by Liu's Mansion this morning, I listened to his family's guards talking there. Last night, a strongman broke into Liu's mansion, rushed into Master Liu's bedroom, and gave him his stuff...... Click......" the bald old man made a cut-off gesture.
Dahan was stunned for a moment and said, "What you said is true?"
The bald old man laughed and said, "Then there is still a fake?"
The big man was in a trance for a while, still recalling the words of the bald old man, and after a while, he said in a daze: "What kind of person is this, this is the courage of an ambitious leopard......"
When Mu Ke'er heard this, she glanced at Shen Zhuoyu, saw that his fists were clenched, his face was angry, and he whispered with relief: "What's the matter, are you still angry?"
Shen Zhuoyu sneered: "Manichaeism is really a place to hide filth and filth, how many women from good families have been harmed by that old man, if I had come here earlier......"
"Hey......" Mu Ke'er sighed lightly: "That old man has practiced the technique of collecting yin and supplementing yang, which is not Manichaean martial arts at all, he, but he is just using this name to bully those ignorant believers." ”
Shen Zhuoyu was noncommittal, but the chopsticks in his hand were broken for a few paragraphs.
At this moment, two men with swords hanging from their waists broke into the store, and the two of them spoke loudly, and their eyebrows danced.
"Look, in a few days, the imperial court will definitely send troops to recruit, if you and I go late, we will regret it for the rest of our lives!"
The two chose a window seat and sat down, and the other black-clothed swordsman was a little older, and he just shook his head when he heard this: "This time Fang La's chaos is huge, far from being comparable to Shandong Songjiang at that time, even if you and I go, we may not be able to do anything big." ”
"Eh!" the Xuanyi swordsman shouted: "Senior brother, you are not right, whether you can make a name for yourself or not depends on your personal ability." I heard that Fang La had an incident, and there are not a few people in the rivers and lakes who helped him, if you say so, it is better to go to Fang La!"
The black-clothed swordsman's face changed greatly, and he said urgently: "What kind of bullshit! Although Lao Tzu is not good, he will not commit trouble!"
The conversation between the two attracted the attention of many diners, and the bald old man was the most good, so he immediately raised his head and asked, "This good man, did you just say that someone made a mess?"
The Xuanyi swordsman saw that everyone was looking at him, and he was proud for a while, and replied loudly: "Yes, my brother doesn't know, now the entire southeast has set off an uproar, and that Fang La pretended to be a "Heavenly Fu", and used Bangyuan Tong as a stronghold, gathering tens of thousands of chaotic people, and it is already openly chaotic!"
The bald old man frowned and said, "When is this, why don't we have any news here?" The implication is to doubt the authenticity of this news.
The Xuanyi swordsman crossed his waist and said slightly angrily: "This is true! Our people were in Zhejiang at that time, and as soon as they heard about this, they immediately flew pigeons to spread the news." Now that all the disciples of my Gangjian Sect are rushing over, this time must be a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions, if anyone can slaughter Fang La first, they will definitely be able to ......."
"Don't say it!" The black-clothed swordsman covered his mouth suddenly, with an angry look on his face, and shouted softly: "You still think that there are too few people who steal merit?"
When the Xuanyi swordsman heard this, he suddenly woke up, but the words had already been spoken, and the entire hall had already exploded, and many people rushed out directly, competing to tell each other, presumably it would not be long before everyone would know about it. After being reminded by this Xuanyi swordsman, there will definitely be many people in the nearby rivers and lakes who will rush to hear the news, and when the time comes, there will be many more competitors for these two swordsmen.
The crowd was chaotic, and everyone didn't pay attention, Shen Zhuoyu, who was sitting in the corner, left his seat, and in a blink of an eye, he had already passed through the crowded hall and rushed out of the door. Mu Ke'er shouted in his mouth and followed out. The two of them ran wildly all the way, and it was not until they boarded a nearby high bridge that Shen Zhuoyu stopped. (To be continued......)