[Comprehensive martial arts] Holy Monk

Under the full moon, almost the entire city has fallen into a deep sleep.

The doors and windows are closed tightly in the dark, only the high and low corrugated roofs reflect the faint moonlight like python scales, quietly dormant in the humid cold fog.

Under the guidance of the golden silkworm, Fang Tianzhi was flying on the roofs of the houses in the streets and alleys.

He was still holding the iron box in his hand, but when the straw shoes stepped on the tiles, there was hardly a sound. Even if the owner of the house woke up at night, he must have thought it was just a gust of wind.

Haihou City is quite a big city, but it is not difficult to cross things in half an hour if you run straight on the roof like this.Fang Tianzhi chased after a cup of tea, and the golden silkworm in his hand churned more and more violently. He floated across a gable wall with three entrances, and at the end of his eyes suddenly appeared a graceful white figure in elegant clothes. Young girl.

When Fang Tianzhi saw someone, he stopped raising his breath and went to the room. Instead, he quietly landed on the alleyway, lingering behind the young girl in a leisurely manner.After following for a while, he realized that Qingnv, Huai Xu, and King Chun didn't seem to be together, but alone.She was not in a hurry, she just shuttled slowly through the alleys. After a while, there was a soft noise outside the alley. Fang Tianzhi listened attentively, and found that there were faintly noisy human voices intertwined with the sound of silk and bamboo.

The sound of music was even overwhelming, Fang Tianzhi frowned slightly, and when he turned out of the alley, he suddenly saw a archway standing across the street, with the words "Fubao Alley" written on it.In the depths of the archway, there are various embroidered strokes hanging outside the two-story wooden buildings on both sides. When illuminated by the winding red gauze lanterns, they turn into a haze of dazzling light, enveloping the whole alley.

Fang Tianzhi glanced at it and knew it must be Fireworks Willow Lane.I went to look for Qingnv again, but saw that she went straight through the archway and went deep into the alley.Fang Tianzhi took out the bamboo hat he bought when he entered the gambling house from behind, put it on his head, then turned a corner silently, and followed him from the alley next door.

The alley he walked was the back alley of Fubao Lane.The alley is greasy with sewage, mixed with leftovers, and soaked in the ditches in a mess. Weeds grow on both sides of the broken bluestone slabs, and wild cats howl from time to time. Fortunately, the light is dim, except for occasionally opening the back door to pour water. Except for the servants in dirty water and one or two poor drunks, there was almost no one to be seen.

Fang Tianzhi pressed the iron box against the wall, bowed his spine and jumped onto the short eaves of another row of small buildings, and followed the young girl's back very lightly, which happened to be unnoticed.After walking halfway through the alley, he stopped suddenly, and quietly dodged behind a cherry tree beside the gable wall.

Look carefully again, sure enough, not far ahead, there are figures swaying in several quiet small buildings, and the sound of their breathing is dense and long, obviously they are Jianghu people with martial arts, roughly four or five people.And Qingnv walked to one of the small buildings, her figure pushed the door and disappeared behind the bamboo bushes.

Fang Tianzhi waited for a while, but saw that the people lurking around were just guarding the house, and did not open the window to look around, so he went down the eaves and rushed to the foot of the courtyard wall outside the small building, looking at the window screen. The figure suddenly and lightly crossed the white wall.When he landed on the fine muddy ground in the courtyard, he rushed forward about Zhang Xu almost without touching the ground, and hid among several clumps of bamboo branches.

The people in several small buildings didn't even notice that he sneaked close. Fang Tianzhi was in the bamboo bushes, and faintly heard someone whispering upstairs. After thinking for a while, he knew that if he carried the box to eavesdrop Such a big and bulky object, I was afraid it would be too easy to expose, so I quietly put the iron box in my hand on the mud floor, but the whole person swam to the second floor window like a shadow against the eaves of the wall, listening to the young girl's gentle and gentle words :"Soon."

Fang Tianzhi was thinking, what is coming soon?Suddenly another woman asked, "How long is it?"

This woman's voice is actually pleasant to the ear, only compared with Qingnv, she is like a fish's eye compared to a bright pearl.She sounded very restless, but she was a bit proud and happy, making people wonder what her identity was. The young girl responded obediently: "We will salute when we are born, and the family will come to pick you up in about a while."

The woman asked: "The family is here to pick up someone? What about him, will he come?"

The young girl seemed to be smiling, and said softly, "Maybe the city lord won't come, but he will wait for you on the boat." She changed the subject, and whispered euphemistically, "He is not in good health,... You know that, don't you?"

Fang Tianzhi was surprised and suspicious when he heard it, who is the city owner?Is it uncle?Why is he in poor health?

Who is this woman, why should she know that he is not in good health?

The woman was silent for a long time, then she suddenly said bitterly: "Yes. If he hadn't been in bad health, maybe... maybe he wouldn't have agreed to marry me so obediently."

The young girl said: "How can this be? He has been living abroad since he was a child, and he has no parents. You and him are dependent on each other. Naturally, he has you in his heart, so he is willing to marry you."

When Fang Tianzhi heard this, he suddenly felt a little incomprehensible.

But the woman was also surprised, she felt sorry for herself for a moment, and became extremely confident at the moment. Hearing the words, she said: "You are right. Who else can he trust besides me? He must only trust me. There is no one in this world. Who really loves him? Only I love him the most. It's really not a bad thing for him to marry me. "

The young girl said sweetly, "You are absolutely right."

The two of them stopped talking at this point.

The candlelight danced a few times, and the faint sound of silk and bamboo in the distance seemed to be resounding from outside the sky. Except for the rustling of bamboo leaves, the courtyard was completely silent.Fang Tianzhi held his breath, and didn't have the idea of ​​visiting through the window. He planned to wait for the so-called "family" to pick them up, and then put them on the "boat", so as to see who their city lord was.

But the woman suddenly spoke again: "What is your relationship with him?"

The young girl was a little surprised, and said softly: "I am... naturally his subordinate."

The woman said bluntly: "But you used to be his father's subordinate. Can you still be regarded as his elder?" She paused, her tone became more and more suspicious, "He only told you in advance that I am here. How could he trust you that much?"

The young girl was quiet for a moment, then said lightly: "If you say that, maybe I can barely count as his elder."

There was a trace of melancholy in her voice, as if it came from the moon palace, like a few words left by Chang'e when she peered down into the mortal world, it sounded so lonely and moving.

But the woman was suddenly irritated, and she even said sharply: "Really! If you say that, you are not only his elder, but also a woman. A man, why do you trust a woman so much? Especially this woman is still alive Beautiful?" There was a sound of fabric rubbing, as if the woman stood up abruptly, and asked aggressively, "Why do you always wear a veil? Are you afraid that people will see your face?"

The young girl was not angry either.

She just said slowly: "Since I was 20 years old, no one has seen my face. Even my husband is no exception."

The woman was stunned: "What did you say?"

The young girl ignored it, and continued softly, "The city lord has only been back for a month, and he has never seen my face, so how could he regard me as a woman?" She sighed, and said softly, " You really worry too much."

Fang Tianzhi just listened to the conversation.

As for why the young girl didn't let her husband see her face?Why did it become like this at the age of 20?If it is the secret of the boudoir, he doesn't care much.He only thought about the few words and phrases that he cared about over and over again, but the woman seemed to be comforted, and she didn't speak again.

It was waiting silently again.

When he was bored, Fang Tianzhi looked around and found that these small buildings seemed quiet, but they were sandwiched between the front and back brothels, it was really not a good place.Earlier, there was a servant girl who came around to the backyard to pour tea soup. She was also dressed in seductive clothes, with frivolous looks in her eyes, as if she didn't look like a serious girl.

Maybe this is a brothel?

This is a good place to hide, but it is too inappropriate to greet relatives from here.No matter who the lord of the city is, why did he rush to marry his bride when he was not in good health—and he had to be in a brothel in Haihou City?

Just thinking of this, the sound of silk and bamboo suddenly disappeared.

Fang Tianzhi was stunned, and remained motionless against the snow wall. The unusual silence didn't last long, and a burst of joy suddenly broke through the alley in the middle of the night, and rushed over suddenly.The music was getting closer and closer, and in the blink of an eye, it piled up outside the small courtyard like flowers. The woman in the room finally heard it, and said happily, "Are you here?"

There was a creaking sound from the window, but it was Qingnv who opened the front window, her voice mixed with joy: "Here we come."

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a crisp sound from the alley in the front yard, as if someone hit the green brick with wood.After three beeps, an old man's voice instantly resounded all around: "I invite the immortals to board the jade sedan chair."

The old man's voice sounded thin.

As soon as Fang Tianzhi heard it, he knew who it was.

The visitor was indeed very thin, it was the old man Chunwang!

There was another squeak, and the young girl said with a smile: "Let's go, we are going home."

At this moment, the woman became shy again, she let out a greasy "hmm" in her nasal voice, and followed the young woman downstairs step by step.

Fang Tianzhi heard the sound of footsteps and reached the first floor, then slid down the wall again in joy, holding the iron box again in his hands, and waited quietly for the family to leave.

Counting the steps of the young girl and the young girl, the old man Chun Wang sang again: "Teng Yun, lift up the jade sedan chair—"

He was about to look for an opportunity to catch up, when suddenly there was a commotion in front of him, amidst the chaos of people and horses neighing, it seemed that dozens of bright and cold lights came out of their sheaths in an instant, and every time the sword light flickered, there was another scream of horror. The yells came one after another, among which were still mixed with the woman's shrill exclamation——

Across the wall of bamboo bushes, Fang Tianzhi's heart sank, he was thinking whether the person who came was an enemy or a friend, but suddenly he heard a gust of wind whistling.The next moment, an indigo figure flashed past the wooden fence of the small building like thunder and lightning!And his eyesight is astonishing, and he has already seen the face of the person in a blink of an eye——

Chu Liuxiang? !

It was Chu Liuxiang!

Chu Liuxiang blew across the bamboo bushes and courtyard walls like a fragrant wind, leaving behind the pursuers to eat ashes, unexpectedly there was still a person in his arms.

The figure of that person is quite beautiful, he is wrapped in a wedding dress, and his face is covered with a beaded veil——

It's the bride in this small building!