Aggrieved Fish Sprite

A tea house two streets away from Chenghuang Temple.

The teahouse was not open today, the doors and windows on the second floor were closed, and all the chairs were turned upside down on the Eight Immortals table.

Sitting cross-legged in the corner was a tall and thin middle-aged man wearing a bamboo hat.

——He sat directly on the floor, with a porcelain cup full of tea in front of him.

The cup is made of coarse porcelain, and there are leaves and stalks floating in the tea.

No matter from the window or the stairs, it is difficult to see this strange man staring at the porcelain cup at first sight.

The noise outside gradually became louder, and it seemed that many people were running.

"There's a fight... the blacksmith shop... gangsters..."

Ambiguous words came through the windows, the roof tiles creaked, and there were screams and panic downstairs.

Someone jumped on the roof of the second floor of the tea house, and the tiles slipped as they stepped on it, as if they had landed heavily.He walked around the roof at a very fast speed, observing the situation in all directions, as if he had lost someone, trying to find the trace of the other party.

There was another scream in the distance.

The people on the roof stepped angrily, jumped up and left the teahouse.

From the beginning to the end, the man in the bamboo hat sitting cross-legged on the floor did not move, but looked up coldly at the beam when the tiles were sliding.

Gradually, the noise in the distance gradually subsided, and the porcelain cup in front of the man in the bamboo hat still did not shake at all.

"Miss Liu has missed."

There was no vibration, and the prepared thunderbolt tube did not explode.

The man in the bamboo hat half closed his eyes and let out a sigh.

He stood up slowly, no longer looked at the porcelain cup, and walked downstairs.

The light coming in through the cracks in the window slowly reflected on his face.First is the firm and angular chin, a layer of green stubble, and then the straight and ruthless corners of the mouth.

He is not like a swordsman, and there is a mask under the bamboo hat.A normal bamboo hat can only cover half of the face.

At the top of the stairs stood two servants dressed as waiters in a teahouse. They arched their backs and immediately called out "Master" in a low voice when they saw someone coming down.

When they spoke, they were extremely respectful and did not dare to raise their heads.

"Where is Sun Xi?" The man in the bamboo hat said in a very soft voice, like a gust of wind gently blowing past his ears.

The shoulders of the two servants trembled slightly, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.

Beads of sweat gushed out and even dripped onto the floor in front of them.

At this moment, a respectful call rescued the two servants.

"My lord, forgive me. I didn't know the lord's arrival. It's because my subordinates have neglected me."

Shopkeeper Sun just stepped into the teahouse, his face was extremely ugly, and he was also somewhat uncommonly anxious.

Shopkeeper Sun quickly walked up to the man in the bamboo hat, deeply ashamed and said: "This subordinate was careless and missed important information, so that he was passive everywhere, ruining the foundation of Run County and the best time to get rid of Fengxing Pavilion. "

The man in the bamboo hat waved his hand first, and then said: "Fengxing Pavilion is a mob. It doesn't matter when you eradicate it. Run County has been run by you for many years without credit or hard work. Even if it is destroyed, I will not blame you. Dewei, do you know What was the real mistake?"

Shopkeeper Sun felt a shiver running down his spine very quickly, knowing that if he didn't answer this question well, he would be finished.

"Reporting to the lord, this subordinate... this subordinate caused the lord to lose a peerless sword."

"Oh, I know both you and Li Song look down on him."

The man in the hat was still calm. Shopkeeper Sun closed his eyes and dared not hide any more. He said in a low voice, "After your knife fell into the hands of Feng Xingge, it is the fault of the subordinates that they did not rescue you, but launched an attack instead."

Blowing up the workshop that made drugs, abandoning Run County... These can all be justified from the standpoint of taking the overall situation into account, but this one can't.

Even if the secret agent lurking in Fengxing Pavilion gave the swordsman a hint and pointed out the direction of escape, but there was nothing.

The true renunciation of swordsmen starts with burning sweet spring soup.

The man in the bamboo hat sighed for a long time: "I know you think he is stupid and stupid, and he has been withholding the dosage of Wangyou Pill to control the killers of Piaoping Pavilion, keeping those killers underground so that you can't use them... ..."

"Lord!"

Shopkeeper Sun couldn't help interrupting the man in the bamboo hat when he heard this sentence. He broke out in a cold sweat, and tried his best to explain: "Piaoping Pavilion was made like that by him. This person is really incompetent, and it was a waste of my master's thoughts."

The Piaoping Pavilion could have caused even greater disturbances in the world, and shopkeeper Sun could do more things with the help of this killer organization, but it was a pity that he met the idiot Swordsman!This person is nestled in the grave and can't come out. Apart from practicing swords all day long, he doesn't care about other things at all. Shopkeeper Sun can't "get acquainted" with him, nor can he "use" him.

He is obviously one of the forces under the lord's command, but he can't get any bargains. He has to work hard to deliver pills regularly and daily, and send the kidnapped Jianghu masters to serve as thugs. He is busy like a grandson.But the swordsman doesn't even know his last name, let alone appreciate him. Shopkeeper Sun has nothing to do with hard work, so how can he not complain?

The man in the bamboo hat fixedly looked at shopkeeper Sun.

The latter straightened his back and said in a respectful voice: "Master, there are many good knives in this world. It may be difficult to find one that is sharper than this one, but I don't know how many are smoother than this one! We must find a suitable knife for the Lord!"

"very good."

The man in the bamboo hat turned around and walked out.

Shopkeeper Sun hurriedly followed, and at the same time carefully reported: "The identity of the person who took Li Song abducted has been confirmed..."

"Oh? Is it because of the undercover agent you sent in Fengxing Pavilion, or Miss Liu who just missed?" the man in the bamboo hat asked softly.

Shopkeeper Sun's face turned blue and white, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If the master of the Chu Dynasty is still alive, he will be nearly 90 years old. Although this person's identity has been confirmed by the Fengxing Pavilion, there are also some rumors in the world, and even Taijing All the changes in a place a few months ago are related to this person. But there are not a few people in the world who pass the name of their masters from generation to generation, and that is the case with the thief Li Kongkong. I just want to know if he... really For Meng Qi himself."

"Now you know."

The breath in the teahouse became extremely stagnant, the two servants were almost breathless, and their faces began to turn blue.

The man in the bamboo hat turned around slowly, with anger appearing in his tone for the first time: "Liu Niangzi and others have practiced the Konghua Formation for 20 years, and they have worked so hard to find someone who is suitable for this martial art, and they are even more full of enthusiasm." Now that the person is gone, 20 years of painstaking efforts are in vain! Sun Xi and Sun Dewei! I have always relied on you, and this is what you give me in return?"

Shopkeeper Sun fell to his knees with a plop, unable to express the pain in his heart.

Liu Niangzi lived near the Town God's Temple, not to monitor Blacksmith Wang. Blacksmith Wang didn't have such a big face, and today's incident was also a coincidence.

The three of Meng Qi carried a dead body to the blacksmith's shop, and then Meng Qi ostentatiously walked through the market wearing Qiu Wei Shizi's robes. With his appearance, it was hard for Mrs. Liu to pay attention.The area around the Town God's Temple is mixed with fish and dragons, and there are a lot of outsiders. They were already manned, and seeing Meng Qi going in and out of the dim sum shop, and wandering around the county government office, how can they not be suspicious.Besides, the city gate of Run County was still blocked, and this person who appeared suddenly went to the "blacksmith shop related to swordsmen", and his identity was almost revealed.

The one who disrupted the situation last night and took Li Zhubo away!

Shopkeeper Sun was worried when he received this information.

He didn't know Li Zhubo was dead.

But shopkeeper Sun can figure out what the other party will do next.

——Because he would have done the same if he had changed.

On the bright side, shopkeeper Sun abandoned and blew up all the clues that could be exposed, and even disguised the Sun family as one of the wealthy households who fled last night, but there are still many things he can't take away, such as the manpower in the government, the barracks, etc. There are problematic soldiers here, as well as hidden forces like Liu Niangzi on the street.

These people may not know as much as Li Zhubo, and it will take a lot of thought to catch them.Meng Qi was determined to draw the bottom line. Didn't the Sun family slander Fengxing Pavilion for colluding with bandits to attack the county? This crime can be charged back to the Sun family, depending on how Li Zhubo is used.

The living Li Zhubo will quibble, the dead one is more useful, cut off the head or throw the body directly into the county magistrate's bedroom, pretend to be the leader of the bandit, and say that it is Li Zhubo who made the deal with the bandit, and now he will kill him if he says nothing After killing him, he asked for property viciously, frightened the county magistrate out of his wits, and then fled when the yamen servants surrounded him.

If you go back to the barracks and make trouble, let alone the county magistrate, even the county lieutenant will become suspicious.

Why can people come and go freely in the heavily guarded barracks? Is it true that no one knows about bandits?

No evidence is needed, as long as strict investigation is required, the people they put in the barracks will be temporarily abolished.If Meng Qi's methods were superb, starting with the practice of barracks eating empty salaries, no matter how clever they were, they might be discovered, and withdrawing all the people would be tantamount to not calling themselves, and attracting the attention of the Qi Dynasty.

That's all, the main reason is that shopkeeper Sun discovered according to the report of the undercover person in Fengxing Pavilion that the person who disturbed the situation was most likely the national teacher of the Chu Dynasty.

In today's world, no matter the Qi Dynasty, Yi Chu, or Shengliantan, they are not as afraid of this name as they are in Xiliang.

There are no records in the classics, and there are no rumors in the rivers and lakes.

Therefore, no one knows that the state religion of Xiliang State, the Mogatti Temple, where masters gathered enough to compete against the sects of the Jianghu, died in the hands of one person.

"My lord, please..." Shopkeeper Sun pulled himself together, and briefly recounted his difficulties and the situation at the time, "At first, my subordinates didn't believe it. They sat in the barracks and saw that the other party regarded Xuanwu's killing array as nothing. Li Song knew that something was wrong and immediately used the back trick that he thought would not work, blowing up the underground workshop. When Liu Niangzi came to report, his subordinates felt that they could not let Li Song reveal more information, so they made up their minds. The subordinate not only dispatched Liu Niangzi, but also prepared a lot of thunder, fire and thunderbolt, the lord should have heard about it. In fact, the intention of the subordinate is to let people test the depth, to fight as soon as they can, and to leave when the situation is not good..."

Shopkeeper Sun trembled, and everyone could hear that the gunpowder hadn't exploded.

But he was really wronged, he looked down on the swordsman and Li Song, but he never meant to send Liu Niangzi and others to die.

"Back then Meng Qi broke into the Mogatti Temple and was trapped by the empty formation for three days. It took half an hour to break through the formation. Although Liu Niangzi's martial arts is not as good as that of the monk who protected the temple, it only took half an hour. With the help of thunder, fire and thunderbolt, the blacksmith shop is even more narrow and difficult to perform light kung fu...whatever it is, it shouldn't...the whole army is wiped out..."

If it is the real Meng Qi, people who are almost 90 years old have more pure internal strength, but their muscles and bones are not as good as when they were young, and their eyesight is useless, and their hands and feet can't keep up.

If it is a descendant of Meng Qi, even if he has learned the method of breaking the formation, it is different from Qimen Dunjia, it is not a military formation, and it requires years of hard training by masters.Is it possible that Meng Qi can still find someone who is proficient in the Kong Huazhen to teach his disciples?

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Blacksmith shops scattered all over the place.

Lady Liu struggled to get up from the ground with a distorted expression. She realized that shopkeeper Sun had something to hide from her.

"Who exactly are you? Where did you know the name of the Kong Huazhen, and when... have you been to Mogatti Temple?"

The other Xiliang masters also showed horror.

Just because the Mogatti Temple disappeared more than 40 years ago.

Along with the king of Xiliang, they were reduced to ashes.

The exercises they practiced were ancient books preserved in the ground in a special way, and it was not excavated until ten years after the country was subjugated.

This person actually opened his mouth and said that he had seen the empty flower formation formed by the monks who protected the Mogatti Temple with his own eyes?

Mogai named Sanskrit, which means a place without worries.The state religion of Xiliang Kingdom belongs to Sanskrit Buddhism, which has evolved into a single branch after several classics. It is transformed from the "Surangama Sutra" into the thirteen parts of the demon and self-attachment, and even surpasses the martial arts of the famous Hengchang Temple in the Central Plains. It is not well-known in the Central Plains, but the real masters all know the martial arts of the monks of Mojati Temple.

Kong Huazhen is the housekeeper of Mogatti Temple, from the beginning to the end, only one person broke through it.

"Could it be that you are Meng Qi, the master of the Chu Dynasty..."

Someone showed a little complacency, holding a sword and smiling.

"A disciple of...?"

Meng Qi's smile disappeared.

Then he vaguely heard a snort, and turned his head angrily, only to see Mo Li continuing to applaud, and nodded and said, "That's right, this is also a old grudge, and it just so happens that we bumped into each other."

Liu Niangzi thought of shopkeeper Sun's order to try out the depth of martial arts, as long as the cellar was blown up, regardless of the life and death of the people in the cellar to escape immediately, she became more and more sure that shopkeeper Sun knew Meng Qi's identity, and hated her even more.

"I didn't expect that today, there are people from Xiliang who intend to restore the country. It seems that you have done a good job?" Meng Qi decided not to care about the stupidity of these Xiliang masters. Nobody brought them with them, so where did the disciples come from?

However, Liu Niangzi and the others had trembling expressions when they encountered a natural enemy, which was really interesting.

The ink carp suddenly turned its head.

One wall of the blacksmith's shop has completely collapsed, the storefront facing the street, but the other two sides remain intact.

Mo Li felt it first, followed by Meng Qi.

A deep and powerful aura stood quietly outside the wall, as if a top expert was watching them through the wall.

Meng Qi raised his hand to signal Mo Li to back away, but Mo Li refused, because he felt a vague death breath from that breath.

That kind of feeling can only be compared by stepping into a village full of plagues. Compared with the murderous aura on the swordsman, it is a joke.

Liu Niangzi and the others were overjoyed at first, and then trembled—they messed up their errand, lost face, and asked the master to do it himself.

The author has something to say: Konghuazhen.

This statement comes from the Shurangama Sutra.

Facilitate the emptiness, don’t see Kuanghua: When you stare at a spot in front of you without blinking, over time, your eyes get tired, and there will be shadows flying around. This flying shadow is called Kuanghua, which is counted as something out of nothing , to the effect that form, appearance, and essence are all illusory, so don't be attached.It is born after staring at it for a long time, and it is born because of attachment. No matter how you grasp it, it is vain to pursue it.

The Konghua formation here refers to Mogatti Temple, which has created a dazzling formation that makes people more confused, and the more they distinguish, the more wrong it is.

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At that time, Meng Qi was 89 years old, and he brought a book with him to look it up:? ?I will study first

Today's Meng Qi is level 99, and he recites the book backwards like a fluent: It can break a p, and it's over.