Chapter 10: The Covenant of Peony
"I have heard that Jun is suave, pity the flowers and cherish the jade, I have been fond of it for a long time, today Shenshi, Peony Villa, I should look forward to it, witness the demeanor of the king. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Jun is open-minded, when he can't bear to be a concubine to enjoy the spring flowers alone, looking through the autumn water. ”
This short note was displayed in front of Ren Piaoping's eyes at this time, the handwriting was handsome and straight, graceful and elegant, the writing was smooth and poetic, presumably the person who wrote the letter must be an elegant person, and then looked at the provocative text, Ren Piaoping couldn't help but think about it at this time. There is no signature on the letter, but it oozes a faint scent of orchids, and a blooming peony is painted on the back of the letter.
Although Ren Piaoping didn't know this peony and didn't know where the Peony Villa was, he knew the fragrance of this orchid. This fragrance is the unique orchid fragrance on Ouyang Xiaodie's body, but this fragrance is also the fragrance on the mysterious woman who made the human skin mask, so at this moment, he is already confused, whether the other party is Ouyang Xiaodie or the mysterious woman, or Ouyang Xiaodie is the mysterious woman at all.
Looking up at the sky, Ren Piaoping decided to go and meet the peony for a while.
Out of the city gate, thirty miles to the southeast is the Peony Villa, and Ren Wandering is now standing in front of the door of the Peony Villa.
The huge Peony Villa seems to have no one, except for the peony flowers in the garden.
Therefore, Ren Wandering only appreciates the flowers, the peony is the king of the flowers, the flowers are big and colorful, the fragrance is rich, graceful and luxurious, and the owner of this villa must cherish it very much, because each plant is taken care of energetically, each one blooms beautifully moving, and the precious varieties cultivated in this peony villa are only afraid that the whole Luoyang City can no longer find a second one, there are red flat-topped red, yellow Yaochi spring, white jade plate white, and more green spring water green wave and black Yaochi inkstone.
Just as Ren Wandering was intoxicated by these flowers, a young woman's moving voice came from behind her: "Hundreds of flowers fly in the colorful clouds, peonies, and they are red." The woman chanted the Yuan Dynasty Duan Keji's "Jiangchengzi", Ren Piaoping smiled, looked back and said: "The pulse is silent to people, the morning dew is heavy, and the face is washed." ”
Who knew that this time, what caught Ren Piaoping's eyes was an extremely ugly old lady, who suddenly frowned, only to feel that Yaxing was completely gone, and said: "Do you have to hide it like this every time we meet?" The woman ignored his question, and said with a smile: "Gongziguo is an elegant person, and it seems that he also has a soft spot for this peony." ”
She didn't laugh at this, but smiled and revealed a few yellow and black teeth in her mouth, which made Ren Wandering feel disgusted, so she simply closed her eyes and said, "Presumably your appearance behind the mask must be even uglier!" Ren Wandering originally wanted to provoke the woman, thinking that what woman doesn't love beauty? I never thought that the woman wouldn't eat him at all, and said: "Then you just keep your eyes closed, I asked you to come just to talk about things, and not for you to judge me." ”
Ren Wandering was bored and not angry, her eyes were still closed, and she thought to herself that it would be beautiful just to listen to this woman's voice. I only heard the woman say softly: "The head of the Tang Sect in Sichuan, Yan Luo Tang Xiangtian, must be no stranger to you, I wonder if you can let his body be in the Tang Gate and his head in Luoyang within ten days?"
Ren Piaoping originally closed her eyes and just wanted to listen to her heavenly voice, but when she heard this, she reluctantly opened her eyes and said, "Why should I kill someone for you?"
The woman said, "What do you say?"
Ren Wandering said, "How can I conclude that Ouyang Xiaodie and Monk Shede are in your hands?"
The woman stood among the peony flowers, like an old gardener, but her voice was extremely gentle, and said, "There are some things that don't need to be decided, Childe, are you right?" As he spoke, he waved his hand, and saw a projectile spinning, and a sharp whistled and shot quickly towards Ren Piaoping's face, Ren Piaoping didn't seem to expect this woman to change her face so quickly, her right hand performed exercises, gathered in her palm, and grabbed the projectile out of thin air with the strength of a spiral, who knew that the projectile seemed to be suddenly strengthened by someone after it, speeding up its speed and rotational force, "bang", from which dozens of silver needles were ejected, and the speed and power of this silver needle were controlled by its internal organs, which were not comparable to Tang Xuexue's silver needles.
Ren Wandering was shocked, the light skill of walking alone in the rivers and lakes had been launched, and the figure was stunned to move five feet to the left, and the silver needles shot on the peony flowers, and the flowers withered and died in an instant. Who knew that the woman didn't seem to expect that the projectile would suddenly be strengthened, and when she saw the most dangerous moment just now, she couldn't help but let out a coquettish cry. Seeing that Ren Wandering was fine, she let out a sigh of relief, and her heart seemed to be relaxed.
Rao is like this, Ren Piaoping was also shocked into a cold sweat, and then looked back, the Buddha beads that were still rotating on the ground were the Buddha beads that were handed over to him by the love flower that night, and he already understood in his heart. Thinking that it was just his own carelessness, the direction of rotation of the force in the palm of his hand happened to be the same as the direction of rotation of the Buddha bead, accelerating the movement of the Buddha bead, if the direction was reversed, the Buddha bead would not turn off, but I was afraid that it was already in his palm.
Ren Wandering didn't seem to be angry, but said with a little hippie smile: "The girl seems to be very worried, if this is the case, the peony flower will die, and it will be a ghost." ”
The woman didn't expect that Ren Wandering would make fun of her, so she couldn't hold her breath anymore and said, "Ren Wandering, you are really a despicable and shameless villain. Suddenly, he felt a little out of shape, changed the topic, and said, "Can you conclude now?"
Ren Piaoping said: "Then Tang Xiangtian has never asked about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, why did he want to take his life?"
The woman said: "Seventeen years ago, on the North Sichuan Road, Ouyang Liancheng's family of thirty-six people who are famous in the rivers and lakes were all intercepted and killed, and since then, no one in the rivers and lakes has been able to compete with the Sichuan Tangmen in the hidden weapon, do you think this matter will have anything to do with the Tangmen?"
Ren Piaoping nodded and said: "It is said that Ouyang Liancheng's martial arts back then were world-famous, and the secret weapon was even more self-contained, invincible, just the Mobei Shuangxiong under his command, any one of the thirteen Liancheng Taibao can be on their own, dominating one side, even if it is done by the Tang Sect, I am afraid that someone else will help it." ”
The woman seemed to have met a bosom friend, nodding frequently while listening to Ren Piaoping's words, and suddenly felt a lot closer to Ren Piaoping, and said softly: "What the son said is very true, there are many enemies in the Ouyang family, all of them are fierce and vicious...... Suddenly, the woman stopped talking and asked Ren Piaoping: "This Tang Xiangtian, do you kill or not?"
Ren Wandering frowned and said, "Before I decide, I want to meet my friend." ”
The woman said, "You don't have a bargaining chip with me, and you will have a chance after the deed is done." The tone was flat and decisive.
Ren Piaoping smiled, took a step towards the woman, intentionally or unintentionally, and said, "Of course I have chips, and you are my biggest chip." ”
The woman could feel the strong aura emitted by Ren Wanderer's approach, and she was already in the center of this aura at this time, but she smiled faintly and said, "You won't kill me, because you don't dare to take risks, because you still want to see them." ”
Ren Wandering saw her fearlessness, and also saw her self-confidence, and at the same time saw that he was not as strong and strong as he imagined, he slowly closed his eyes, and the strong aura slowly weakened.
The woman knew she was going to win, and she knew she had a firm grip on his death hole.
She had won, she should have been happy, but she didn't look happy at all, on the contrary, there was a little pity, a little resentment, a lot of things that even she didn't know.
She was almost about to compromise, she was almost about to speak, but Ren Piaoping spoke: "I never accept coercion, maybe there will be a first time in many things in life, remember, if Tang Xiangtian has nothing to kill, I will never kill him." Ren Piaoping didn't even open her eyes to look at her, she turned around and was about to leave.
The woman suddenly thought of something, and said softly, "Childe, please wait." ”
Ren Wandering stopped and didn't look back. The woman asked, "How did you recognize that I wasn't a monk last night?" Ren Wandering replied expressionlessly: "First, I never call a monk who is willing to be the eldest brother, and a monk who is willing never to call me the third brother; second, a monk generally does not have a fragrance on his body; third, a monk usually does not have ear piercings. Ren Wandering paused, "Did you just want to retrieve the lost Buddha bead last night?" The woman said, "Yes, you are really careful, and it seems that it is ten times more beneficial to be friends with people like you than to be enemies." ”
Ren Piaoping replied coldly, "How can any of my friends make human skin masks?"
The woman sighed faintly, and said with all kinds of love and pity, "It seems that we can only be enemies." Suddenly, he smiled and said: "If you can be the enemy of the world's famous and world-famous Ren Wanderer, wouldn't it be a happy thing in life." "The man has swept out of the peony bushes.
However, the figure of the woman flying out seemed to have encountered obstacles, and her figure stagnated and returned to the same place, and when she looked closely, Chang Xiaoyu and Ziyun had already appeared and walked out.
Chang Xiaoyu laughed and said: "Old fox, you don't call me for such a thing as appreciating peonies." ”
Ren Piaoping was very happy when she saw Chang Xiaoyu at this time, and said with a smile: "Rewarding peonies is fake, appreciating the old woman is real." The corner of his eye glanced at the woman, although the woman was wearing a mask, but at this time she was also very angry, her hands were shaking to herself, she turned her head and looked at Ren Piaoping angrily, and said, "I don't want you to be so cowardly, but you have a helper." ”
And said that Chang Xiaoyu and Ziyun left Yajing Pavilion yesterday afternoon and went straight to the Longmen Grottoes, along the way the two of them told each other about their hearts, Qingqing and I, I am very intimate, who knew that the old man of Longmen was not there in the Longmen Grottoes, so I had to wait, who knew that I didn't see the old man of Longmen come back in the evening, seeing that the night was getting thicker, Ziyun said: "Why don't we rest here tonight! Or we have to come again tomorrow, I don't want to go back and forth, besides, if we just leave, the old man of Longmen will come back, isn't it a waste of all the work?"
In fact, that Ziyun wanted to give Yu Furong and Ren Wandering a chance to be alone. Although Chang Xiaoyu didn't know Ziyun's thoughts, he saw Ziyun leaning on his arms tenderly, and he was happy to be alone with Ziyun, but fortunately, the old man of Longmen had everything here, so he responded to her.
The next day, the sun was three poles, and Chang Xiaoyu and the two had not woken up yet, so they talked too much last night. Suddenly, someone outside the door said loudly: "Junior Zhao Hongyun asks to see the senior of Longmen." Chang Xiaoyu was shocked, it was Zhao Hongyun, a kid, thinking that Zhao Hongyun had snatched the woman in Ren Wandering's heart, which was naturally not a good thing, so don't answer him first. I heard Zhao Hongyun shouting outside the door again: "Zhentian helps Zhao Hongyun to ask to see the senior of Longmen when he has something." Chang Xiaoyu thought to himself that this guy actually moved out the name of the Earthquake Gang, for fear that others would not know who he was.
Chang Xiaoyu was already outside the door, pretending to rub his sleepy eyes, and said, "Who is noisy here early in the morning, disturbing people's dreams." He added: "Oh, it's the young leader of the Earthquake Gang, and I've admired it for a long time." ”
Zhao Hongyun is such a person, of course, he can see Chang Xiaoyu's mockery, but he doesn't mind, and said: "Eh, isn't this Brother Chang, after four years, I don't want Brother Chang to be a gatekeeper for the seniors of Longmen here." "Four years ago, Chang Xiaoyu and Zhao Hongyun had a relationship at the martial arts conference held every five years in Shaolin Temple.
Chang Xiaoyu smiled and said, "I also have something to ask to see the old man of Longmen, but I never wanted to pounce on him, and I haven't seen any trace of his old man since yesterday." ”
Zhao Hongyun sighed and said, "I see, I don't know what Brother Chang is doing?" When he spoke, he looked at him, and saw the two old men behind him passing by Chang Xiaoyu like lightning. Chang Xiaoyu's reaction was already very fast, he didn't stop it, he wanted to suffer, first, he was worried that Ziyun would be seen, and it was difficult to say that the lonely man and widow were not good, and second, he was afraid that Ziyun and the two old men would make a move. Just as they were about to rush into the house, the two old men had already turned back and forth in the house, shaking their heads at Zhao Hongyun outside the door.
Seeing that Zhao Hongyun was suspicious by nature, Chang Xiaoyu thought to himself why not let him take a look at this Buddha bead, anyway, the old fox didn't know it, and it didn't hurt if this kid saw it, so as to dispel the doubts in his heart. At that moment, he took out the Buddha beads and handed them to Zhao Hongyun, and said with a smile: "Can the young gang master know this?" ”
Zhao Hongyun took the Buddha bead and looked at it, his face changed drastically, and said, "Where did Brother Chang get this thing?"
Chang Xiaoyu said: "A friend entrusted me to ask the old man of Longmen for advice, it seems that the young helper knows this thing, and please give me advice." ”
Zhao Hongyun pondered for a while, and said: "I can't remember clearly for a while, when I think about it, I will definitely inform Brother Chang, I still have important things to do, and there will be a period later." After that, he returned the Buddha beads to Chang Xiaoyu and left in a hurry.
When Chang Xiaoyu returned to the house, Ziyun came in through the back door, and Chang Xiaoyu realized that as soon as he went out, Ziyun had already slipped out of the back door cleverly, just in case, knowing that Ziyun had learned a lot from being a killer in the past few years, and it was not to be underestimated.
After that, Chang Xiaoyu and Ziyun hurried back to Luoyang, and learned from Yu Furong that Ren Wandering was waiting for them in the drunken embroidery Qiankun Restaurant, and hurriedly went to the restaurant, and learned from the shopkeeper that Ren Wandering went to Peony Villa. This is the scene where Chang Xiaoyu intercepts the woman's way.
Ren Piaoping didn't explain, and some things couldn't be explained clearly, so why bother?
Chang Xiaoyu originally wanted to let the wanderer throw a rat bogey, but he could ignore it. Then he said no more, and let the woman go.
Ren Wandering suddenly shouted, "Fluttershy!" You know, just this casual call is enough, but his voice is full of his boundless and miserable thoughts about Ouyang Xiaodie, and even Ziyun on the side trembles when he hears it.
The woman had already left, but suddenly heard Ren Wandering's extremely sad voice, she couldn't help but be shocked, stood for a long time, looked back, the blurred look through the autumn water, seemed to keep Ren Wandering firmly in her heart, and asked: "You call me Miss?" suddenly smiled again, and said: "I am also surnamed Ouyang, Ouyang Xiaodie's Ouyang." The figure was already swept up, and it disappeared from Ren Piaoping's eyes in an instant.