Alternative Jianghu Adventures

Qiao Anyue woke up from a nightmare.

She suddenly sat up from the bed, her temples throbbing.

There was silence around my ears.

It will be Lisummer in two days, and it rained for a while in the morning. Now the sun is shining outside the window, and the air is still a little cool, but the large swaths of sunlight have turned the early-growing leaves into a golden layer.

The birds chirping outside the window can be heard endlessly, and there is a sense of restlessness and tranquility in the early summer afternoon.

She stared blankly at the jade pendant "snatched" from Xia Yun on the edge of the bed, and it took her a long time before her eyes came back to focus.

Then came the pain and numbness of the flesh on the back.

Qiao Anyue remembered that she and the first day of the junior high school rushed back to the capital non-stop, and were punished with fifty lashes as soon as they arrived at the house. She must have passed out, and she was here now after waking up.

It's just that there is still a vague shadow of swords and blood in the nightmare in my mind, rainy night, the moon, it seems that there is someone behind her... Qiao Anyue was stunned for a moment before finding the word "Xia Yun" in her mind. on this person.

The screen suddenly turned, and a long and distant memory seemed to emerge in front of my eyes.It seems that she is the one being protected behind, and then the person named Xia Yun is holding a sword, and seems to be fighting with someone... With whom?

Qiao Anyue subconsciously glanced at her hands, the two scars on the palms of her hands were densely covered with a thin layer of sweat, it seemed that this was left at that time?

As soon as she thought of this, Qiao Anyue felt a sharp pain in her head, and her heart beat crazily faster!She struggled to pick up a cup of tea on the table and drank it down. The cold tea flowed down her throat to calm her down!

In a flash, when she came back to her senses, she didn't even remember having a dream.

The effect of interrupting Mengpo soup has begun to become prominent.

Qiao Anyue stared at the tea leaves in the teacup, and felt a sense of loss in her heart for some reason. She froze for a long time, frowned slightly, and said a few words firmly, "This tea...is old tea. .”

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"This tea is not fresh."

Outside the courtyard where Qiao Anyue was staying, in the Yipinzhai across the street, two men were sitting in the private room, and they glanced out the window, just in time to see the pavilion of the courtyard where Qiao Anyue was.

"Come here... what are you doing here! How dare you serve yesterday's Chen Cha?!" The man sitting at the bottom pretended to be angry, and the voice of scolding made the waiter feel sorry for him. It was exactly the place where Qiao An returned to the capital at the beginning of the month. Gao's family.

"That's all, it's just tea... Besides, the tea is quite new to me. It's hard for you to ask for the tea you picked today." The person at the top laughed and said, "Gao Shilang is too much fuss."

"Where..." The man called Gao Shilang waved his hand to make the waiter retreat, and said with an apologetic smile, "Aren't you afraid of offending your lord's tongue? Mr. Lu's guest, I dare not neglect you."

Looking at the entire imperial court, there is only one high-ranking official with the surname Lu, and the prime minister who is in power is Lu Kun.

"You have a lot of skill in flattering!" Lu Kun's guest raised his eyebrows and smiled, "No wonder Lu Kun gave you a surname when he was happy... Oh, by the way, what is your real name?

It seems to be called Joe?

So you should have been called Qiao Shiyuan before? "

Qiao Shiyuan, or Gao Shiyuan was not annoyed when he heard this slightly sarcastic remark, his previously cloudy face in front of Qiao Anyue could now wrinkle with a smile.

"Mr. Lu said that Qiao Mu is the one who is tall and curved. Therefore, the surname Gao was given to Qiao's family...

The world is divided into four streams, scholars, farmers, businessmen.

My Qiao family was originally a miscellaneous generation, engaged in the career of actors for generations. Thanks to Mr. Lu's pity, I was able to escape from the misery, changed my name and surname, and made my family shine brightly, rising above the gentry.

Therefore, Mr. Lu's disciples must be treated with kindness by my Gao family. "

Gao Shiyuan's voice sang and sighed three times, and his speech was just right.It doesn't make people feel too flattering, and the words have praised all the relevant people inside and out, making the listeners feel very comfortable.

"Okay, don't flatter me Zhang Jiwen, I'm just a martial artist in the Jianghu, and I can't get into this kind of elegant hall-heh, speaking of Jianghu affairs, I remember you Joe-the Gao family seemed to form a group back then. A troupe that is all the rage in the capital?"

Zhang Jiwen sipped his tea and looked down.

They have a good view of the private room, they can just see the small courtyard where Qiao Anyue is staying, and they can also see all the recreational programs on the first floor of Yipinzhai.

At this time, the storyteller had just finished his sentence and asked for the reward. He strolled to the spectators waving a white feather fan, touched the melon and fruit noodle shop and sat on the bench, when he heard the sound of gongs and drums coming from the background.

The next stage is the famous housekeeping skill of Li Jinxian in the capital—hanging silk puppet.

Hanging wire puppets are also called hanging wire puppets and string puppets in some places.

Although there are different opinions, as the name suggests, it is a puppet operated by rope or cotton thread, which is used to perform scenes of puppet shows.

The reason why Li Jinxian's hanging silk puppets are famous is precisely because his puppets spare no expense to dress up like real people, wearing gold and silver, so lifelike.Coupled with that superb manipulation technique, the puppet show made him act like a real person!

"Yes, but since the change of name and surname, the theater troupe has been disbanded a long time ago... This Li Jinxian was just a backstage helper, and he only learned some superficial aspects of my Gao family's singing. People held it up as a standard."

Gao Shiyuan listened to the unceasing cheers of the people in the stands below, and unconsciously let out a contemptuous smile.

"I heard that the Qiao family was so popular back then, it was all because of the Qiao family's natural talent for acting, coupled with the ancestral bone reduction technique, they really acted like anything, just a little bit of makeup, and it changed. Personally...is it really so miraculous?"

Zhang Jiwen watched Li Jinxian singing and singing, and felt that his emotions were indeed fully involved, and he felt that there was a faint sign of taking people's heart when listening to the tone of his voice.

It is conceivable how many of the ordinary audience in the stands below were brought into this excerpt and sank, unable to control themselves.

"Not all the Qiao family..."

Gao Shiyuan focused his eyes on the silk puppets manipulated by thin threads, and stared at the gorgeous clothes. His thoughts seemed to return to the days before he became the minister of the Ministry of Rites, walking around and singing operas for a living. He said in a trance:

"In each generation of the Qiao family, there will only be one person in the direct bloodline who has the talent of painting skin to bone. It is really a talent that has been born since birth, and no one else can learn it.

If the person in the direct line dies without descendants, the blood will appear in the person closest to him by blood.

This lineage is naturally good at observation and imitation. Even a three-year-old child can perform a hundred-year-old worry. In the Qiao family, this person is called a natural "drama bone".

But this talent also comes at a price.

'Xi Gu' possesses the power to reach the sky, but his natural desire is very light.

Although she can perform all kinds of scenes in the world, she is a bystander in the world.

Except for her family and friends she has known since she was a child, she can still glimpse the emotional expression of the drama bones of the past, but for her, everyone else is something that does not exist.

What kind of clothing and food, what kind of gold, silver and wealth, never existed in their eyes...not even for a moment.

This is the reason why the Qiao family has supernatural powers, but they can only walk in the streets and alleys in the past dynasties, walking among the miscellaneous people. "

Zhang Jiwen suddenly smiled, "I understand, this is you too—why did you kill your biological brother as a bastard, use the closeness of natural blood to control your elder brother's sons and daughters, let the puppet hold the knife, and help you ascend to the top of the blue sky?" s reason."

What Zhang Jiwen said was firm, but it didn't arouse Gao Shiyuan's annoyance.

"Every man is innocent, but he is guilty of his crime, and an actor is ruthless, and cannot hold a knife... It is simply a waste of money."

Gao Shiyuan stared at the Xuansi puppet on the table, and sneered: "Do you know what is the most important thing about this Xuansi puppet?

This silk puppet... should be decorated with gold..."

While Gao Shiyuan was talking here, Qiao Anyue on the other side had already walked into the kitchen with a cup of old tea. Although the back of the clothes was soaked in blood, it could still be seen that it was a long gown made of fine Su brocade .

"Refined iron bones."

Based on her impression, Qiao Anyue found the ingredients from the kitchen - they were all the high-quality imperial food intercepted from the carriage delivered to the royal family by someone - lit a fire and added firewood, and cooked a bowl of bird's nest porridge for herself.

"Cultivate the essence... just like a knife, it will not rust, and it will break when it is used."

While the bird's nest porridge was still suffocating on the stove, Qiao Anyue took out a white jade porcelain bottle of wound medicine from a dark cabinet.

Seeing that a thin layer of dust had settled on it because it had been left for too long, Qiao Anyue frowned subconsciously, and forced herself to wipe off the layer of floating dust with internal force, only to feel much more comfortable.

"The key is……"

Gao Shiyuan shifted his gaze to the manipulator Li Jinxian's hand, "The golden thread must be strong, and in order to achieve realism, the thinner the better... Best, only the manipulator himself can see it."

"Oh? You mean, no one can see your thread?" Zhang Jiwen became interested.

"So, this Li Jinxian has only learned a little bit."

A gleam of light flashed in Gao Shiyuan's eyes, suppressing the pride in his heart, "Although the Qiao family no longer sings on the stage, our Gao family can use the whole world as a stage."

Gao Shiyuan took a look at Zhang Jiwen at this point, and then added: "Of course...we are all actors on the stage. For those who set up this stage, they should be grateful and willing to die."

Zhang Jiwen laughed, "It's not necessary to die forever. I am here this time because I have a mission that requires you to perform on stage."

He took out a bamboo tube from his pocket and handed it to Gao Shiyuan.

Gao Shiyuan took it, and only glanced at the black and white words inside, his expression suddenly changed.

Looking at Gao Shiyuan's shocked eyes, Zhang Jiwen said softly: "The military amulet that Mr. Lu placed in Qingzhou City...was robbed.

The thief, whose whereabouts are unknown. "

"Mr. Lu has no time, you should know about it."

Zhang Jiwen continued to stare at Gao Shiyuan.

Lu Kun is about to pass his 42nd birthday. According to rumors in the world, there is a curse in Lu Xiang's family that "the age does not pass the destiny", and it is true that no one in Lu Xiang's three generations has lived past the age of 50.

Only eight years left.

Lu Kun has always dreamed of seizing the throne, but in the early years, due to the power left by the late emperor, he did not proclaim himself emperor. He originally planned to support the puppet emperor and wait for the opportunity for the little emperor to issue an edict to "abide the throne", but as the young emperor grew up, the young emperor is now He also showed his minions, which made Lu Kun even more anxious.

Now the soldier talisman that was going to suppress the young emperor's forces in the south has been robbed—if the soldier talisman falls into the hands of General Lantian, who was arranged by the late emperor in southern Xinjiang, the force that was supposed to "suppress the bandits" is likely to become "Jing Nan" of the rebels.

Turning the tip of the knife around is tantamount to suicidal.

Coupled with the fact that Lu Kun didn't have much time left, it was even more difficult to sleep day and night.

"Originally, Mr. Lu wanted to leave the matter to me, but Mr. Lu has been in a state of mind recently-you know, people are always suspicious when they are old. He is worried that what he did to the late emperor 12 years ago will happen to him again, so I will not be able to leave an inch.

After thinking about it, Mr. Lu thought of Qiao Anri back then. Although the little girl was dead, I heard that you found another substitute...

Although his skills are a bit weak, he is taking a brisk path. It is said that he uses medicine to enter the Tao, no matter whether it is medicine or poison, he will not lose to the owner of Baicao Valley?And the dead soldiers who trained with Qiao Anri back then... I heard that their skills are no less than Qiao Anri's.

I observed the mission of the Jin family——the Jin family dared to send silver taels for the young emperor, and refused to listen to repeated warnings. Mr. Lu had no choice but to fold his wings to show his vigilance. You little puppet, your movements are clean.

Such a two-phase balance is not inferior to that of the past. "

This meant handing over the task to Qiao Anyue.

Li Jinxian under Yipinzhai had already sung the excerpt to the end with the Xuansi puppet.

The exquisitely crafted puppet was looking forward to flying on the stage, the make-up was exquisite, the Chinese clothes were turned upside down, and on the three-foot red cotton, after a song, it was like a stranger and bid farewell. Because it was too lifelike, this moment was unexpected People applaud!

"Thank you." Gao Shiyuan nodded, with a smile in the corner of his eyes, "Gao will definitely bring something to the stage and present a song to Mr."

"it is good!!!"

Thunderous applause suddenly sounded from the lower floors!

Covering up Zhang Jiwen's "I'm sorry", for a while, everyone upstairs and downstairs in Yipinzhai was full of smiles, and it looked like a scene of peace and prosperity——

It's just a pity for the peddlers in short coats who were kicked out by Yipinzhai in order to welcome the distinguished guests.

The next day.

Qiao Anyue and Chuyi received a secret order from Gao Shiyuan.

The two people's original mission report coincidentally concealed the matter of Xia Yun and Shen Feiwei, so Gao Shiyuan didn't know the whereabouts of the soldier talisman.

The secret order only asked Qiao Anyue and Chuyi to find the soldier amulet, and to be on the safe side, kill them to silence them.

"So how are you going?"

Staring at Qiao Anyue on the first day of the lunar new year, she asked aloud.

"Find Xia Yun, kill people and seize things."

Because of the influence of Meng Potang, Qiao Anyue became a bystander.

The first day of the junior high school was taken aback, and then nodded, "This time I plan to play...who?"

According to the past habit, it was Joan Anyue who came forward - just like Shiliu before - pretending to be an inconspicuous little character to achieve his goal.

Afterwards, the disguise was gone, and he was an irrelevant person again.

Qiao Anyue thought for a moment, then unconsciously groped for the jade pendant with the word "Qiao" on her fingertips, and paused word by word: "Yue'er."

Chu Yi, who was drinking the new tea that Qiao Anyue found out from the kitchen, coughed suddenly.

Qiao Anyue didn't remember it herself, but he knew it!

Qiao Anyue is Yue'er... Now when I hear this sentence at first, it's like hearing someone say that I want to play myself...

People who didn't know thought that this person's mind was the same as Cheng Zhe..."different from ordinary people".

Thinking of Cheng Zhe, the first day of junior high school's head hurts again.

The guy asked him to push the four-wheeled cart to find an inn to rest, and then told the first day of the lunar new year to come back quickly, saying that Gao Shiyuan had another mission.

Other than that, he didn't say anything else, he just chased him away on the first day of junior high school when he obeyed the order!

...is simply unreasonable.

But there was nothing he could do about this person in the first day of junior high school.

The fleeting years are unfavorable.

On the first day of the junior high school, I sighed in my heart.

Pretending to be calm, with the same calm expression on his face, "You said, you want to play, Yue'er?"

Maybe he heard wrong.

However, when she saw Qiao Anyue nodding her head firmly, the corners of her mouth finally couldn't help twitching. She wanted to say something, but found that she had nothing to say.

……as long as you are happy.

The author has something to say: Well, in the next chapter, we should...be able to meet each other...It's really uncomfortable to write such polite words!I really want to write the clip of Xia Yun scolding her mother 2333

I just watched a mv...suddenly I have the urge to write about the past and present life→_→It is the modern kind of present life...Let me be quiet→_→

Also, thank you 920 for the nutrient solution :)