son-in-law

Chapter 1240 Chapter [-] Restless Mind ([-])
The night sky is vast.

On the land in the east, the clock beat more, and Fuzhou entered the early morning of the first day of June.

The lights of the night market gradually dissipated, the carriages and the last tourists returned home, and a few night shops were also closed. Except for the red lanterns still hanging in front of the brothel, there was not much light in the dark night.

Sparse and mottled, like a dream scattered on the sea.

Some dreams are slightly more lively.

"...If this kind of thing really happens. You, you...you will be found by our brothers, including your wives and children, and I will kill them inch by inch in front of you. Of course, there will be some differences in the process. It's a pain, but in the end, you guys will help us find your boss... hehe... wahahahahahaha..."

Hands on hips, the silhouette painted on the window looks like a proud fire-breathing dragon, speaking powerful words with laughter.

Then hesitated.

"What's the next sentence?"

The girl's laughter came out.

"Childish..."

Some dreams seem strange.

"... After the assassination in the morning, guards were strengthened on both sides of Li Pin's school and the princess's mansion, and the news was also sealed. But the school had to open its doors to welcome visitors after all, and the visitor confirmed at night. Li Pin is fine, it seems The assassination failed, but the assassin was not caught either... As for the Eldest Princess' Mansion, the news has not been confirmed, but there are rumors that Tie Tianying left the palace in the afternoon and went there."

"...The Princess Mansion has a banquet tomorrow, and it's not surprising that those guys who come to see off their daughter will be invited to the banquet..."

"...I'm afraid we won't know about the news of the various yamen until tomorrow..."

"...I was thinking of another thing...Chen Shuangran...How could this little black man have the strength he has today?"

There are also serious and distressing dreams.

"...Those two, I'm afraid they won't be recruited by us...but they agreed to help us..."

"...I'll let the people above decide the big things."

"...Then do we still have credit?"

"……some……"

……

Princess Palace.

The stars are few and far between.

In the courtyard on the side of the sleeping hall, Yin Ping was meditating under the eaves.Her back is straight, her long and strong legs are straight, her hands are on her knees, and her five hearts are facing the sky. It seems to be a standard meditation posture for a practitioner.

But in the dimness under the eaves, her eyes are still open, looking at the courtyard ahead, her clear gaze changes occasionally.

In the center of the courtyard is a big banyan tree. Through the branches and leaves of the banyan tree, the light of the stars falls in parallel. Under the tree are stone tables and stone benches.

In her mind, she had already run around the yard countless times, thinking about different techniques for exerting force, and fighting the assassins in the daytime.

Always one line away.

The assassin's appearance approached yesterday's Sishi, and it was she who led the patrol at that time, and found the clue.The gray figure came over and slapped her. The palm hit her chest, which was obscene, but in the first encounter, it was a very clever strategy. She slapped him right away.

The striker was an old man, his hands were calloused and not plump, but his palms were strong and sharp. As soon as they fought, she realized that she had misjudged the opponent's strength, and the palm with all her strength made her blood surge, which was extremely uncomfortable.The next moment, the other party flew towards the group of guards beside him.

The opponent's qinggong was superb, Yin Ping tried to catch up from behind, but the figure had already sent the two of them flying with a wave of his arms, and then suddenly stepped on the thigh of a female guard, and the blood spurted out, the figure unexpectedly He also changed direction and fled outside the princess mansion.

failed to catch up...

But it is not a question of strategy.

After thinking about it for a long time, Yin Ping could understand that the assassin who killed this time, no matter in terms of internal strength, lightness skill, or sophistication when responding to the enemy, was a bit higher than himself, especially lightness skill and agility. His cultivation base has reached the state of perfection, and the most capable and agile figures in the army are probably only in the middle of his peers compared with him.

Not to mention that when the opponent was fighting, there was a faint clang of iron plates on his body.

"Swallowing clouds and iron armor".

Among the anecdotes I have heard in the past, there is only one person that can correspond to it.

When master Zhou Tong arrived in Shandong, he also shot this man once, but he ran away with all his strength after taking off his armor, master never chased him.

In the past, my father said that the master was ordered by the Taiwei's mansion to intercept and kill Mr. Ning and his wife, "Heshan Iron Sword" Lu Hongti, who hadn't shown too many tricks. I'm afraid it was because of the responsibility. , so the escaped monk was not killed.

But now that I think about it, it seems that it might be because the monk's lightness kungfu has improved after he removed his armor, and even the master is not sure to catch up?

The night was quiet. From the afternoon to this time, she had tried many methods to rehearse possible contingencies in the next fight. At this time, everyone had already fallen asleep, and she could only recall what she had learned in the past and conceive in her mind.

He couldn't help but think of the battle between Shigong and Mr. Ning back then.At that time, the heart demon first destroyed Liangshan, and it was not yet famous for its superb martial arts, but Shigong passed away as the No. For singles, Mr. Ning and that lady will play together.

Even if it's a two-on-one match, it would be an extraordinary thing to be able to draw with the master in a head-to-head duel.

She and her younger brother were outside the city of Xiangyang, and the Mr. Ning she saw was already a great master and a great hero. It is vivid in her memory, especially the scene of Mrs. Liu from the "Bad Sword" who killed Li Wanlian and the "Towering Sword" Du Shadao. Even though she was still young at that time, she could feel how great it was oppression.

Later, her father came to pick her and her younger brother up. After talking with Mr. Ning for a while, she and Yue Yun once asked her father about each other's martial arts, and the always serious father also admitted: "I can't beat him."

In the Beiwei army, father and general Gao are the ones with the highest martial arts skills, but even if they can surpass this monk swallowing clouds in martial arts, they may still fall short in terms of lightness kung fu alone.

Lin Zongwu, who is now regarded as the No. 1 in the world in the grass, although others say that he is "wearing the north legs of the forest", but Yin Ping knows that this is a ridicule from the southwest.According to his father, because of his special body, Lin Zongwu, a big fat man, may have had a huge amount of internal energy. His already surging internal energy promotes lightness kung fu, and he also has one of the best speeds in the world. unbelievable.

I don't know how the unfathomable Mr. Ning can suppress the lightness kung fu of this cloud-swallowing monk. Although she has never seen it with her own eyes, she still feels that perhaps only Mr. Ning, no matter how superb his skills are, will not let him she was surprised...

Of course, there is also my future self...

……

The dream was damp and stuffy.

Zhou Pei woke up from the dream, and the sound of the waves seemed to be still ringing in her ears.

But of course an illusion.

I don't know what time it is, even with the windows open, the light of the oil lamps in the side room is still motionless, there is no wind, and the room is stuffy and hot.She still hasn't fully adapted to the weather in Fuzhou.

Insomnia is also an old problem. I have never slept lightly, but it is not purely caused by the hot weather.

When she got up from the bed, the maid who was sleeping in the side room also got up. After asking carefully, she picked up the copper pot and poured some warm water into the washbasin, and then wrung out a wet towel for her.This is a habit. Zhou Pei wakes up at night and immediately wipes his face, and he wakes up quickly. He just uses warm water when there is nothing to do, and cold water when there is something to do.

The feeling of a dream dissipated quickly.

But on a windless night, everything around him seemed empty and lonely.When I left the room, the Yinping who was meditating in the next yard also came out and followed behind.

"How's Qiniang?"

The name of the female guard whose thigh was kicked off during the day was Lu Qiniang.

"Choushi has already fallen asleep, so there is no need to worry about his life." Yin Ping said.

"Yeah." Zhou Pei nodded, "I can't sleep, I'll go."

It is not once or twice that the eldest princess suffers from insomnia at night.Going out from the side door of the sleeping hall, there is a garden next to it. There is a slightly higher rockery in the garden, and there is a pavilion on the rockery.When you get here, you can feel a little breeze. Zhou Pei often comes here, and now he asked Yin Ping to sit down as well.

Looking into the distance, there was a moment of silence.

"...It's still the clothes from yesterday, you don't sleep, do you?"

"I was thinking about the assassin in the daytime, and how to deal with it when I come next time." Yin Ping Su Rong replied, and then hesitated, "...Your Highness... Can't sleep again?"

"...I had a dream at night."

Zhou Pei smiled.

"...In the past few years, I have often dreamed, and I can remember very little when I wake up. Tonight's dream is quite clear. I dreamed that when I was a child, I was studying in the Princess Chengguo's mansion in Jiangning. The honorable children are inside. On my left is the daughter of Earl Yun’an’s family, named Cheng Shu, and on the right are He Teng and Huang Annian, both sons of nobles... After so many years, the seating position in the dream has not changed at all... "

"...There is no age in the dream, but I also saw Grandma Huang and Grandpa Kang...Because the old man is there, everyone is together and play very peacefully. It is clearly a school, but it seems to be in the wild outside Jiangning City. Congratulations Teng... I don't know what I'm doing, I'm grinding a large inkstone with His Majesty, then the ink spilled, and suddenly caught fire, He Teng shouted... Zhou Pei, run away Ah, run away..."

"...After waking up and thinking about it carefully, the layout of the school should be when he was nine years old...He Teng fell ill when he was ten years old, and died suddenly two years later. His Majesty played well with him when he was young... …When I was 20 years old, I often dreamed about when I was a child. In recent years, I have rarely dreamed about my childhood. I remember things in my childhood very clearly, but when I think about it carefully, I always feel that something is wrong. Only today can I dream more clearly..."

"...It was a good dream..."

The night was quiet, there was only a breeze in the gazebo, Zhou Pei spoke slowly, and Yin Ping listened quietly.She is not old enough to talk about these things, so she doesn't pick up the words casually. Looking at the smiling eldest princess who talks about dreams, she is actually a little strange.Perhaps because of the age gap, the eldest princess in the past always looked graceful and confident. Although she was occasionally playful, she seldom looked like a... young girl who recalled the past.

Zhou Pei paused, and then said: "I heard that Yue Yun often comes to the mansion to look for you?"

Yin Ping nodded: "Well, he's still young, messing around in the city, causing troubles all the time."

"Oh, actually, when I see your siblings, I always think of the things about me and Your Majesty when we were young..." Zhou Pei smiled, "At that time...we were always running around in Jiangning City, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The slight difference between you is that at that time, it was always my elder sister who was lawless. Your Majesty, she...is timid and likes to do things that follow the rules, but I always drag him to skip classes and climb walls..."

"Now...you can't tell..."

"Well, at that time... he was carefree, and the things around him had been arranged long ago. His Majesty will become a prince of peace when he becomes an adult. After a few years of debauchery, no one can control him anymore. I The biggest worry at that time was getting married when I was old... I was so scared that I ran away from home because of it, but in the end... I married Qu Zonghui..."

When she said this, Yin Ping frowned slightly, her eyebrows hooked into a melancholy moon.

Zhou Pei looked at it and laughed.

She sat quietly for a while again, not saying anything more about the boring and annoying marriage issue.

"...Yin Ping, do you know what is the best thing about being young?"

Yin Ping thought for a while: "My father said, I'm not afraid."

"Yeah... because nothing has happened yet, there are always countless possibilities in our future, so we are not afraid of anything... But people always grow up suddenly, and many things that you can't think of suddenly happen. It happened, and the most frightening thing is that before you can think clearly, it suddenly passed away... One day, you realized that your dream was full of messy things, and you couldn’t even recall the feeling you had when you were a child It's..."

"Your Highness, why..."

"Oh, seeing Qiniang today, I suddenly had a childhood dream, and I thought of these things for no reason...Yin Ping, Qiniang and the others also had carefree teenagers, married and had children, Jurchens Here, after more than ten years of wandering, when we arrived in Taiping, Fuzhou, an assassin suddenly came and broke one of his legs. Say how many people, hastily born, hastily died..."

Under the starlight, Zhou Pei in the gazebo spoke in a low and calm voice. Yin Ping grew up in the army. Although she was used to seeing life and death, she probably remembered some old people at this moment, so she kept silent.Zhou Pei reached out and rubbed her hair.

"I'm self-willed, I can't sleep, I'm telling you this..."

"No." Yin Ping shook his head, "...I love to hear this, my father and uncles in the army often talk about it, but...they are all men..."

"Oh, actually, I don't have any good stories to tell you... Although there is also Zhuang's marriage, but from the beginning to the end, I didn't handle it well..."

She recalled the past in her mind. When she was a child, she took her younger brother to wander carefreely, ran around in Jiangning City, waiting for the monotonous future, and then suddenly became a girl, and left home in a state of confusion. , took a big boat to go north, and when she arrived at Bianliang, she said goodbye to the "teacher" who was going to Liangshan at night... Then everything seemed to speed up, and they became married, and gradually watched the marriage become a mess, and then the mountains and rivers In the fall, she began to learn various things from Aunt Huang and Grandpa Kang, and she had no experience in many things, but Aunt Huang said that a person's life is just a "reluctance".

Reluctantly...

I don't know when, when I woke up from the dream, Jiang Ning when she was a girl was like a false scam. When she thought about it seriously, she became a little confused about whether many things even happened.

When people grow up, even the memories of the past will change color.

It's like being a different person.

There are only headaches, insomnia, and endless responsibilities in front of her. Whether she wants to take them or not, figures from the past and present...all fall before her eyes one after another. Aunt Huang and Grandpa Kang are dead. In the fall, the younger brother was running around in the rain of blood, holding a long sword that children never liked when he was a child, and his father died like a skeleton, telling her about his regrets, she was habitually reluctant, but she could make a decision, When I think about it carefully, I still don't know whether it is correct or wrong...

Unlike the "female woman" who is thousands of miles away, even though she has calculated a lot, when making a decision, what she often feels is still hesitation.

Among the honorable sons and daughters she has come into contact with, Yin Ping is the one who is very close to her, and she feels at ease even entrusting her life to her. This is not only because of Yue Fei, but also because she often stays with Yin Ping and Yue Yun Looking at his siblings, he saw how he and Junwu used to go.

She sighed slightly, then gradually changed the topic, and listened to Yin Ping talking about the assassin in the daytime and the opponent's martial arts for a while.She wasn't too worried about the fact that the person who came this time might be a ruthless character with one of the best lightness skills in the world, but only became interested when she saw Yin Ping's clear face when she said that she would work hard to practice lightness skills next time.

"Yin Ping, you are so old, and you still refuse to marry. In the future, do you want to be a female general?"

Yin Ping frowned: "Your Highness, I grew up in the army, even if I get married, you and Your Majesty will not stop me from going to the battlefield, will you?"

"I will try to persuade you, but I won't try to stop you. You have great strength, and I can't stop you." Zhou Pei smiled, "Actually... I just want to ask, Yin Ping, what do you want most in the future? What do you want to do? For example, if one day we stop fighting, what do you still want to do... Is it martial arts?"

Only then did Yin Ping understand what the other party was referring to.She is an adult, and has already experienced battlefields and seen many lives and deaths. In the past, she often made up her mind to walk with Yue Yun, but in front of Zhou Pei, she still seemed like a younger sister or a junior in many cases. niece.

thought for a moment.

"...Well." Yin Ping put his legs together and nodded solemnly, "Your Highness, actually...my martial arts are very good. My father and General Gao also said that my talent is good. They often follow me when I was young." Said, my master was Zhou Tong who was number one in the world back then. So once I told Zhao Xiaosong that I wanted to be the number one master in the world."

"Xiao Song wants to be the number one female prime minister in the world, and often says that Lou Shuwan is nothing compared to her. You two, among women, have high ambitions. You want to be on par with Grandmaster Zhou, Yue Shuai I must be pleased to hear that." Zhou Pei smiled.

Yin Ping laughed too.

"Actually, boxing has been afraid of young people since ancient times. People who practice martial arts, although the older they are, the more sophisticated they are, but if they want to become one of the best masters in the world, they can see hope at the age of 30 or [-]. Your Highness, I have never met Master. In a few years, I can barely compete with my father or General Gao in Fujian, and I thought to myself, the best thing is to go to the southwest and challenge the number one in the world—Ning, Ren, and Tu face to face.”

When Yin Ping spoke the last few words, she paused for a moment before uttering them all.Hearing this name, Zhou Pei's sitting figure seemed to become more relaxed under the starlight, and her eyes looked soft.

In the spring of [-], the past teachers are like the memories of childhood and girlhood, like the farewell under the starry night of that year, from a certain moment, I can't remember clearly.

Over the years, in fact, she often mentioned this name, and no one could avoid him.But every time I talk about it in front of others, I actually feel nervous in my heart.But only at this moment, when they talked about the anecdote of "the world's number one master", they didn't have to be nervous, they didn't have to treat him as an enemy, and they didn't have to have the slightest hostility.

"Then...then we must win."

"Well... I'm not sure..."

　It has been overturned many times. I originally wanted to remove this part of my mind, but I still kept it after thinking about it. It should be interesting and necessary for the next plot... In addition, the book "Jingming" is also very interesting. I recommend it. Everyone go and have a look.

(End of this chapter)