Ancient Sword II Xie Lelianxin

More than ten days later, the people of Baicao Valley traveled to the hinterland of the desert and found that the ancient road signs they found earlier had been completely destroyed by people.Fortunately, there was a water source nearby, and there was a small piece of sparse Populus euphratica forest nearby. Qin Yang ordered the whole team to set up camp, and took a few soldiers to go out to explore the way.

Above the clouds in the northern sky, the Ille Mountains can be seen faintly. The ice and snow do not melt all year round. From a distance, even the passing clouds seem to be frozen on the top of the mountain by the cold.Qin Yang and others walked to the foot of the mountain, and saw a line-wide mountain road hidden in the middle of the canyon, with cliffs on both sides of the road, and there were soldiers guarding the entrance.

According to "Shanhe Tuzhi", entering Liuyue City must pass through this road, Qin Yang thought to himself, the mountain road is easy to defend but difficult to attack, it must be a life-and-death struggle.Although victory or defeat is unpredictable, time waits for no one. After Qin Yang returned to the team, he ordered the camp to be pulled out, trying to break the deadlock with this thousand-odd troops.

The eve of departure coincided with the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Le Wuyi baked sweet-filled mustaches and took out home-brewed fruit wine. Qin Yang led his adjutants to toast the soldiers one by one, and sang a few songs at the top of their voices. Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet.

When the wine was drunk, the desert wind was desolate, and no one knew who sang an unknown song——

Thousands of miles covered by clouds,

Will go north.

Flowing with you,

I would like to go without giving up my clothes...

Some stood up and applauded, while others left quietly amid laughter.

The moonlight is scattered, and there seems to be snow mottled in the Populus euphratica forest.The young man sat with his back against the tree stump, and seeing no one around, he released the butterfly that had been suffocated for many days out of the box, and watched it disappear into the depths of the forest.

The glass-like sky is cracked among the branches, far clearer than the night sky seen under my own osmanthus tree.He remembered that he missed the sweet-scented osmanthus flowering period this year, and wondered whether his family members thousands of miles away were also drinking and admiring the moon.

The moonlit night in Jingshui Lake is also extremely beautiful.He and Xie Yi used to go to the neighboring mountains to collect herbs, and occasionally when they slept in the mountains, they would share the small snacks they made to satisfy their hunger, and then looked at the "beautiful place" side by side at the top of the mountain.Xie Yi once promised to take him to see that distant city, but now it is close by a mountain, and the person who made the promise... is about to lose the appointment.

The stars are hanging down the plain, and the tune of "On the Water Side" is played leisurely. In an instant, there seems to be a thousand zhang red lotus blooming in the sand sea, and it goes straight to the bright moon in the nine heavens——

The young man shuttled among the green leaves quietly swam towards the small boat in the middle of the lake, until he suddenly emerged from the water nearby, and raised his hand with a playful smile.The lotus rain fell on the cabin, startling the butterflies on the side of the ship, the young man in white who was playing the flute at the bow leaned over, hung the flute back around the young man's neck, held his neck and approached him, and then kissed him on his forehead. Lightly flick it up——no difference, your face is blushing...

The man who claims to be Chuqi said, I have nothing to do with you, Your Excellency, please draw your sword.

The rhythm was interrupted suddenly, and the mouth flute fell on his lap.Ming Die turned back to the boy from the darkness, lingered for a moment by the corner of his slightly wet eyes, and stopped beside the cooling iron sheet.

There were two footsteps behind them.

Le Wuyi wiped away her tears, and heard the visitor say in a blunt tone: "Female...uh, you people from the Central Plains are called aunt...don't stop me, aunt, I'll just ask him a word, a word!"

It was the wolf king who spoke, followed by Wen Renyu with a worried expression on his face.The man of the foreign race looked at it for a while, and then he shut his mouth uncharacteristically, and sat down in front of him a little cautiously.Before Le Wuyi could speak, he took out a pendant from his neck and carefully placed it on the boy's lap.

The Nether Butterfly was occupying its seat, and it flapped its wings and flew up to Le Wuyi's shoulders, leaving behind two identical flutes on its knees, like twins—

"This is a sacrificial utensil passed down from generation to generation in the husband's family... You and Anival each hold one. If brothers are lucky enough to meet again in the future, they can recognize each other by this..." His mother once said to him.

"Wu Huoluo, the general who donated poison, gave a pair of sacrificial utensils handed down from his family to his two sons. The elder brother engraved auspicious and well-being, and the younger brother engraved wealth and wealth... Later, the elder brother went far away, and on the way home, he heard that Hunxie The king heard the villain's slander and killed his father, and his mother and younger brother have been exiled." The wolf king grabbed Le Wuyi's shoulder, "Brother vowed to find the mother and son. He has been to many places and even went to the Central Plains, but he When he left, his younger brother hadn't given his name, so how could he find it... All he knew was that if his younger brother lived to this day, he would be your age."

Le Wuyi raised his head slowly, and the tears gushed across the corners of his trembling mouth.The wolf king's hand tightened more and more tightly, pinching his shoulder painfully, but neither of them felt it.

"...Brother remembers that there is a brown coin-shaped birthmark under my brother's left shoulder blade." The wolf king let go of his hand, and wiped his red eyes indiscriminately, "My brother's name is Annivar, but I don't know...is his brother Remember him?"

Le Wuyi tightly held the two mouth flutes in his hands, hot tears splashed on the cold back of his hands, he didn't care to wipe them off, and only showed a big smile to his long-lost brother——

"Is that what 'brother' said in the words of donating poison?" Le Wuyi put a flute back in Annivar's hand, sniffed and said, "I have been away from home for too long, and I don't even remember the words of donating poison What should I say, teach me quickly."

The wolf king looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, said hello a few times, and immediately began to teach with gestures and gestures.Wen Renyu shook his head with a smile, and was about to leave quietly but was called out by Le Wuyi, asking her if she would like to drink some fruit wine?

There were only a few hours left before departure, but Wen Renyu, who always obeyed the military orders, nodded and sat on the other side of Le Wuyi.She was concerned about Cheng Tingjun's safety day and night, and just now she was disturbed by the sound of the flute, and when she left the camp to relax, she happened to bump into Anival who also came out looking for the sound.

Anival clumsily switched back to the Central Plains dialect that Le Wuyi was used to speaking, but it didn't matter that he smoothly praised the wine made by his younger brother to the sky.He hooked the boy's shoulders contentedly, saying that Le Wuyi would cry when he was teased when he was young, and he was afraid of his parents scolding him, so he could only sing and dance to make him laugh again every time; The love song of drug donation, my mother used to like it very much, and often hummed it to lull the brothers to sleep.

Le Wuyi sang along with his tone-deficient brother, laughing that his master taught him to play this piece, and named it "On the Water Side", which was also taken from a Central Plains love poem.

Wen Renyu thought to himself that Le Wuyi was also drunk before mentioning Xie Yi.

The young man regained his chattering nature, saying that when he was young, he liked to step on puddles in the rain, so the master asked someone to make a big umbrella so that he could cover himself as he was jumping around. The butterfly on the umbrella was also hand-painted by the master He said that the first "patient" he diagnosed and treated was also Master, and he was half-coaxed and half-forced to get the first needle in his life; he also said that the two words he wrote most beautifully were Master's name... …

The wind passed through the forest, and the butterfly and the broken leaf fell into the young man's hand together.Le Wuyi asked Anniwar, what should I do when I was separated from my dearest and loved one, but that person had already forgotten me when I saw him again?

Anival was six to seven minutes drunk, and after muttering a few words, he suddenly made a slashing gesture, Le Wuyi frowned, shook his head like a rattle, Wen Renyu almost coughed out his wine before swallowing it.Anival unsteadily supported the tree trunk and stood up, poured himself a drink, and said leisurely: "Hey, your brother, I just said that the person my brother likes dares to babble and knock him out Carry...no, bring it back! But uh...did you give the sachet to others? Our father was a nonsense back then, and I heard that he followed this rule when he proposed marriage to mother..."

"Master... I gave it to me, so I'll show you." Le Wuyi touched his empty waist, his smile froze suddenly, and he said aggrievedly, "Brother, I had a fight with him half a month ago." Fight, did not win, lost the sachet."

"You can't win a fight with a woman?" Anival patted his chest, "It's okay, brother will fight for you next time!"

"What kind of man or woman, if you can't do it, you can't do it." Le Wuyi followed up and raised his voice, "You are not allowed to hurt him, and no one is allowed... I will take him back to Jingshui Lake and live a good life..."

"No difference," Wen Renyu rubbed his swollen temples, as if something was about to come out of his mind, he couldn't help but interjected, "You're talking about marriage proposal...cough, sachet, is it the white one with a broken mouth? The one that was sewn together...is, the one your master gave you?"

Le Wuyi nodded without hesitation, and Wen Renyu said in his heart that it was so.The young man has never concealed it all the way, and she is not a dull person, so she is not surprised at the moment.Seeing that he was still calm, she continued: "I remember you took it out and looked at it when you were eating sand chicken. As soon as Senior Xie came, you tucked it back into the front. After the senior brother took you away, I carefully went through every An inch of sand, I didn't see that sachet, I thought it was in your place."

"My clothes were cut by Master. I thought I lost them, so I didn't tell you. Could it be that he..." Le Wuyi sat upright, his eyes were mostly clear, "When I was pushed to the ground, Master happened to have his back Shen Ye, if he took the sachet at that time, he should not be seen...but why did he take it?"

"Actually, there is one more thing, I have always been a little strange." Wen Renyu walked up to Annivar, clasped his fists and said in a loud voice, "I'm sorry, but I also ask the wolf king to cooperate."

Anival supported his head, and slowly rolled his eyes at her. Wen Renyu's mouth twitched slightly, too lazy to talk to the drunk, so he simply took a step forward and knocked him to the ground, and then bent his knees to hold him down in imitation of Xie Yi's movement. his chest.Her movements were extremely neat, and before Anival could resist, she pulled out the dagger from her boot, and pressed the back of the knife against her neck.

"It's no different, come and see, Senior Xie held a knife against you at that time, isn't it like this?"

"It's almost like this... Hey, don't move around, the person who heard it said it first." Le Wuyi jumped up and helped Wen Renyu hold down his angry brother.

"That's why I don't understand." Wen Renyu grabbed Annivar's front and slashed two inches below his ear with the back of his knife, "If senior Xie really wanted to kill you, he would just cut your neck like this , but... the wound he left was on the back of his neck, and it happened to be overlapped with an old wound. By the way, how did the old wound get left?"

Le Wuyi lowered his eyes and pressed the bloody scab on the back of his neck with trembling fingertips.

In the past few months, he volunteered to take charge of the team's meals, and fell asleep every day when he was so tired, even if he dreamed back in the middle of the night, he had no time to be sad the next day.He originally thought that he would gradually forget it, and he didn't want to be mentioned, the confrontation with Xie Yi was still as clear as yesterday——

At that time, with the help of Wen Renyu, he led Xie Yi to the lasso, but was disturbed by the sudden appearance of Shen Ye, and couldn't help begging Xie Yi to go back with him again.

He clearly saw the faint wavering in Xie Yi's eyes, but Shen Ye sneered, saying that Xie Yi voluntarily planted the matchmaking Gu to show his loyalty, as long as he holds the mother Gu, "Chu Qi" can only be a loyal A dog has forgotten everything except martial arts.Shen Ye then said fiercely, all these things were arranged by himself, if Le Wuyi could snatch the mother Gu from him, Xie Yi would also obey him.

Now that I think about it, Xie Yi had been hiding behind the tent that day before he showed up, and he knew that Qin Yang was nearby after hearing his conversation with Wen Renyu, and he also knew that there were traps in the surrounding sand, but he still remained calm. He followed them into an ambush without hesitation; he was provoked to charge towards Shen Ye with a sword, but he completely forgot the disparity between him and that person. If Xie Yi hadn't swung himself away with a palm, he might have died in Shen Ye's hand immediately; Nival said that the noose made by Wen Renyu couldn't trap people, but Xie Yi had already restrained himself at that time, but he pulled away when the rope turned up; although the wounds on his body looked terrible, they were almost all flesh and blood hurt……

All kinds of coincidences can only come from the same reason.

Tears welled up in sudden ecstasy.Le Wuyi wanted to jump up and shout loudly, but he suppressed himself and forced himself to calm down——

Two overlapping wounds, a sachet that was taken away... If they were all hints left by Xie Yi, then it must be a hint that not only can be hidden under Shen Ye's eyes, but also only he can understand.

What exactly is that?

Hades flew to the southwest again, turning back from the same direction again and again.The wings of the butterfly were shining brightly, and they gradually overlapped with the blue butterfly that flew into the Dungeon of Wuyanjialan many years ago.

Sachets, wooden chips, butterflies, guides... He grabbed Wen Renyu's wrist: "I know how to find the Gu King! Quickly take me to see your Senior Brother Qin."

On the day of Lizhu's execution, a man in black with a warrant from the high priest knocked on the gate of the dungeon.The jailer opened the barbed cell door, and saw Huayue, the priest of Lianzhen, standing not far behind the man, and a carriage covered in white cloth.

The jailer got a hint beforehand, and searched the man more meticulously than usual, but found nothing except a rag bag the size of a palm.He led the man in black through the guard posts and came to Li Zhu's cell.

The man in black was waiting outside the cell door for Li Zhuhua to be charged, looking sideways at the cell next door from time to time, as if he was more interested in the prisoners there.

"That one...is the spy that the High Priest caught when he passed by Wuyan Jialan a few months ago, a person from Baicao Valley." Most people who come here for the first time will be curious. prison officer.

The figure of the man dressed in strong clothes was like a pine tree, his shadow was stretched slender by the flames, swaying in the depths of the long stone corridor.Most of his face was blocked by a mask, revealing a very soft jaw line, slightly pale lips, and the corners of his mouth were naturally curled up, just looking at his appearance, he looked more like a flower appreciator in the spring breeze in March.

The jailer thought to himself, the self-proclaimed "Chu Qi" should be just a code name, probably the dead man of a high-ranking priest.

Feeling the man's eyes turn to him through the mask, the jailer was startled, lowered his eyebrows and started talking: "What are you looking at, sir?"

The man's hand pointed diagonally at the opposite wall - a moth was trapped in the cobweb in the corner of the wall, and a spider was slowly approaching not far away.

"Uh, I'm sorry...it's my subordinate's negligence, so I'll send someone to clean it."

The jailer apologized again and again. Although the dark Taoist was harmless to humans and animals, he couldn't hide his evil spirit. It seemed that he was really a raised dead man.But since he is a dead man, why did the "superior" specially order a thorough body search...

It's really weird.

The man withdrew the pledged warrant.The jailer always does one thing more than one thing less, so he handed Li Zhu the dove wine he had prepared by himself, and stared at her as he drank it down without leaving a drop, and then he breathed out from the inexplicable sense of oppression.

"Lord Lian Zhen ordered that the wine be mixed with medicine to numb the five senses... just wait for a stick of incense." He lowered his voice.

The man finally spoke: "Master ordered Lord Lianzhen to deal with the aftermath. After the sentence is over, I would like to trouble you to come down and invite Sir to come over."

"This... I'm afraid we'll have to wait a while." The jailer dragged Li Zhu to the door and leaned against her, feeling her breath and pulse, which was gradually slackening, and turned his head to see that the mask was still facing him, with a face that couldn't distinguish between happiness and anger. It sent a chill down his spine.

The man folded his arms and leaned against the wall behind him: "The next task is heavy and complicated, so I took a short rest. It's just that when you report to the high priest, if you are asked why you will return late next day, it is because you are afraid that the poison will fail, so you have to wait for others." I am willing to let you leave only after I have lost my breath, and I am definitely not procrastinating. At that time, I would like to ask you to prove it."

"How dare you delay my lord?!" The jailer wiped off his cold sweat, "Don't be angry, my lord. I'll invite Lord Lianzhen here."

……

The dove wine that entered the abdomen turned into thousands of cones, piercing deeply into the soft viscera, Li Zhu curled up in pain, after a few breaths, the abdomen gradually became numb, and the surrounding sounds also became chaotic.She guessed that Huayue ordered someone to add anesthetics to Jiujiu to relieve her pain, she couldn't help but sighed secretly, and hugged the scroll of peach blossom landscape painting tightly.When he was dying of consciousness, he suddenly saw the prison officer wearing a mask approaching, and took the scroll away.

"No, give it back to me..." She forcefully opened her eyes, and vaguely saw the man's fingertips pushing into the shaft of the painting pole, twisting and patting, and finally took out the wax seal hidden in it.The painting rod was originally made of two pen holders, and the bamboo tube is hollow for storage, but apart from her and Xie Yi, it is absolutely impossible for a third person to know the joint.

Could it be that he is...

"I'm sorry... I couldn't let go of Li Zhu, and I didn't listen to Mr. Po Jun's persuasion, so I went back to the city."

The man sighed softly and pinched Li Zhu's chin, turned the painting stick upside down, and poured the medicine infused into her mouth.Li Zhu swallowed, and seeing the man reaching out to brush her sleeping hole, she couldn't help asking: "Can you... let me see your face..."

The man hesitated for a moment, then lifted his mask slightly.

Sure enough, it was Li Zhu's most familiar eyebrows.The only strange thing is the two blood marks of Gu King under the right eye.

"The person who replaces the city lord and feeds the Gu with blood...is that you? By the way, there is also the wood essence of Jumu in the blood of my lord, so what I just drank...is it your blood?"

There was still a trace of blood in her mouth, Li Zhu raised her head with difficulty, but saw that the man had put the mask back on, and made a silent gesture to her.

Voices were heard in the distance.

The man whispered: "I will seal the big acupoints all over your body for two hours. The wood essence can protect your heart and vitality. You don't know anything about Huayue Zhidao, and she should protect you well... From now on, each of you should cherish it."

"The host of Lianxin Gu is connected to the life of the Gu King. Master Pojun saved my life, and I must tell you something..." Li Zhu finished speaking weakly, and then urged, "This is the only weakness of the Gu King, my lord. Don't let it..."

"Understood, thank you." The man nodded, stretched out his hand to brush Li Zhu's sleeping hole, and heard her finally say vaguely, be careful.

After sending Huayue and others away, the jailer took a long-handled broom to clean, but saw that the spiders and moths had disappeared.In the corner of the wall, there was only a cobweb like torn cotton wool, trembling in the cold wind.