Twenty-five Histories · Kuma Luotian

You should put aside the cares of this life

The sky and the storm are in sight

Let his blood stain his clothes

Bitterness and pain are also safe

Lightly throw away the love in my heart

let him complain

Surprise alone adds sadness

I dare not say my true heart

Burn thousands of miles of flame without fear

Relieve the suffering of all sentient beings

I know the joys and sorrows in my life

left with grievances

But the blue blood does not splatter

Bitterness and pain are also safe

——Li Longji "Mr. Foshan Zan"

Xingqing Mansion in Lingzhou was an important town in the northwest when it belonged to the Song Dynasty, and it was managed by two generations of Deming and Yuanhao. The magnificent palace city is not inferior to Bianjing.At that time, in the records of the Song Dynasty, there was a saying that "the affairs of the hall are wide and the couplets are all covered with bamboo foil".After nightfall, the banquet is open, the candles are burning high, and a full moon shines down, illuminating the three-color glazed tiles on the roof of the hall, and the noise of people is heard everywhere. It is really a lively and prosperous scene.

This night is August sixteenth.A group of suitors quarreled in the Qingfeng Pavilion for a long time last night, not only did they never see the princess, they didn't even know what they chose for their son-in-law, they were just confused.At noon on the [-]th, a decree suddenly came out from the palace that Princess Yinchuan had already decided on the choice of son-in-law.Many people were disappointed, yelled a lot, and hurried back home.However, there were also some people who were just in case, or just wanted to join in the excitement. There were still many people who came that night, and there was a lot of noise, just like the Mid-Autumn Festival.The princes of Tubo and Dali also came here upon summons, and there is no need to elaborate on the splendor and splendor.

However, as soon as these sensual lights reached the palace wall, they disappeared immediately.It seems that a big hand has drawn an invisible gap, and the inside and outside of the wall are completely different.At that time, Xixia was in its prime, with a population of more than two million, and there were nearly 30 soldiers and civilians in the capital.However, the [-] people were completely silent, and no lights were seen in the barracks or residential areas.The huge Lingzhou City was quiet and dark, it seemed that except for the banquet in the palace, everything had become a dead city.Only the faint sound of metal crashing can be heard, from near to far, from fast to slow.As the moonlight fell, cold reflections were suddenly seen in several streets and alleys, and it turned out to be the reflection of armor soldiers. The bronze medal in Xixia script of "Defense and Serve" shines brightly under the moonlight, all of which are the garrison of the capital personally appointed by Lord Xia.But I saw a group of hundreds of people, bow strings, swords out of their sheaths, and the encircled area was full of city gates, horse farms, and all the temples in the whole city that had placed orders for Tubo monks!

The moonlight was shining brightly, gusts of wind passed by, and there was a sudden rustle, followed by a few blows, like the sound of an iron rod hitting the ground, but it was surprisingly fast, and followed the sound like a shadow, falling tightly behind the sound of the wind.In the sound of 槖, 槖, 槖, it seemed that two figures flashed by.When I looked at it again, there was only the undulating roofs of the city, the moonlight streaming down the tiles, and the silence, which made people's hairs stand on end.

The two figures had already fled to the outside of the city.The person in front paused and stopped abruptly.The man in the back stretched his iron staff, like a giant bird passing over his head, and turned back.The moonlight saw a blue and horrified face, neither joy nor anger, only the eyes were shining brightly, and it was Duan Yanqing, the most villainous man in the world.

He only heard Duan Yanqing's throat growl, he seemed to be sneering, and said: "Master Murong, why did you lure this old man all the way here? It's not a small conspiracy to hide your head and show your tail like this."

The other person was naturally Murong Fu, who only smiled faintly upon hearing this.His face was pale under the moonlight, as if he hadn't closed his eyes for a few days, he replied: "It is true that I led Mr. Duan out. But if you talk about conspiracy, there is another person who plotted against Mr. tonight, but it is not me."

Duan Yanqing was suspicious, he only heard the ping-pong clashes in the distance, and the voice of the South Sea Crocodile angrily shouting "Your grandma, the fourth brother is shoulder to shoulder!" Obviously Yanziwu's subordinates also stumbled the two of them, and even more so Refusing to believe it, he said, "There is another person, where is he?"

Murong Fu said: "It is where you came from, sir."

Duan Yanqing and the others serve Yipintang and are not under his control, but tonight Helian Tieshu suddenly summoned him in person, saying that there is an important matter and they need to come to the palace to help.Seeing Murong Fu suddenly appear again, he thought that this "big event" was planned by him, and chased him all the way.But at this moment, he clearly said that the real mastermind was the Xixia King in that palace.With a shudder in his heart, he said: "Empty words are not enough to win trust."

Murong Fu said: "Sir, you know that Yipintang has summoned all masters to enter the palace, why did you come?"

Duan Yanqing thought to himself, Murong Fu didn't want him to answer, and said slowly: "Tonight's state banquet is planned by the Tubo prince for a long time, and he wants to assassinate him at this time. Lord Xia planned this grand banquet according to his plan. No matter who Whoever wins loses, the battle must start, the Dali Duan family is the ally that Xixia must win over."

Duan Yanqing said calmly: "So what?"

Murong Fu smiled and said: "Since we want the hearts of the Duan family, we cannot allow you to stay in this world. Your Highness, what do you think?"

Duan Yanqing was startled, and on that zombie-like face, murderous intent suddenly surged!

He has been wandering in the rivers and lakes for many years, and his appearance has been ruined. No one knows his identity back then.Even if Emperor Baoding didn't see him using the Yiyang Finger Heart Technique, he would definitely not recognize that this is Prince Yanqing.Today, I was yelled at by someone, my heart was shocked, I was shocked and suspicious, and I hated it for many years, I turned my head up, sneered in my stomach, and said: "If that's the case, I won't let you stay!" , then stabbed at Murong Fu.

Duan Yanqing saw Duan Zhengchun fighting with Duan Zhengchun in Shaoshi Mountain, he knew that the Murong clan's martial arts were unpredictable, and his body was disabled, so he couldn't strike long and short, so he used the strength of one Yang finger to fight fast, Want to control him with internal force.However, I saw Murong Fu moving around, dodging left and right, he obviously had a long sword hanging from his waist, but he didn't draw the sword to fight back.When he was pushed to the end, he just rolled his sleeves and moved his finger aside, barely avoiding it, and did not take advantage of the situation to fight back.The two of them have their own strengths, Murong Fu's evasion like this is extremely dangerous.After avoiding more than [-] sticks, cold sweat loomed, his complexion became paler and paler, but he was still calm, and raised his voice: "Your Highness Duan, can you still not trust me?"

Duan Yanqing was puzzled, his inner energy sank, he thrust three sticks in succession, like a violent storm, he went very fast.Murong Fu dodged two stances on his head, the third stick was already hitting his chest, it's hard to dodge it.But seeing him turn over and over, his figure suddenly rose from the ground at an inconceivable angle, with his toes pointing to the tip of the stick, and with only a little help in mid-air, his white clothes floated in the air under the moonlight, flying backwards flat like a paper kite out.

Duan Yanqing thought to himself: "This man is arrogant, he still refuses to fight back like this, there must be something inside." As soon as he retracted the stick, he laughed in his stomach: "Mr. Murong is very skilled. I think this old man is suspicious gone."

Murong Fu smiled lightly and said: "Your Highness has undergone a great change, it is human nature to have any doubts. It's just..." Before he could say a word, his long eyebrows raised sharply, and he shouted: "Who is it!"

Duan Yanqing suddenly heard the sound of many people's breathing, and thought that he was taking advantage of the two of them to get close when they were fighting, and had been watching for a long time.Standing on the ground with two sticks, he turned around quickly, and saw seven people standing in a row opposite him, with high noses and deep eyes, dressed in the uniform of a first-class warrior, everyone stared at them with murderous intent.

One of them shouted in blunt Chinese: "General Zhengdong ordered, Duan Yanqing, kill!" The seven people jumped up at the same time, lined up in a row, like a strange long snake twisting and circling.The barbarian in the lead stretched out his arm and slashed at him with a palm.

Yipintang recruited martial artists from all over the world on a large scale after returning from the beggar gang.Duan Yanqing was also invited to give some advice, and he recognized that these barbarians came from Persia, and their martial arts were only second-rate or third-rate characters, so he sneered twice in his heart.The right stick was lifted up, like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, it directly stabbed the Laogong acupoint on the palm of the leader.This stick took advantage of the flaws to find the acupoints accurately, if that person puts his palm on the head of his stick by himself, and spits out the force of his yang finger, that hand will undoubtedly be useless.He secretly said in his heart: "It is to take the trust of Duan's family and to kill me, why do you only send these small characters here?" With a thought in his mind, Duan Yanqing suddenly felt a strong force rushing towards his face.There is the so-called "three folded waves of the Yangtze River" in the palm technique, which means that one palm contains three forces, and they rush towards each other one after another; however, at this moment, the palm force on the opposite side is not just the waves of the Yangtze River, it is like the tide of Qiantang, waves follow one after another, one after another. Higher than one path, back and forth, seven paths were sent out!With Duan Yanqing's kung fu, even three or four palms in succession can't do anything for him, but when he sent out seven palms all at once, his face turned blue in an instant, his left hand couldn't stand still with the single stick, and he retreated straight back suddenly.The dust flew violently, and the head of the stick drew a gully a foot deep in the ground. He almost lost all feeling in his right arm, and thought to himself, "...what!"

But he saw that the seven people were still lined up in a line, each person protected his body with one palm, and put the other palm on the back of the person in front.Only then did I realize that this strange kung fu is to combine seven people into one, no wonder it is so difficult.Snorting, he thought to himself: "It must be so that they cannot be connected." He whistled sharply, propped his two sticks on the ground, flew up, and went straight to the middle of the barbarians.Before the body landed, several sticks were thrown out in a row, and the offensive was extremely fierce.They deliberately want those people to make mistakes and avoid them. If the team is in chaos, they will not be able to connect together again.

However, the Hu man in the lead also whistled sharply, and suddenly the seven of them moved together, their footwork was extremely weird.Obviously, the fourteen arms and fourteen feet are advancing and retreating at the same time, as if a strange man with seven heads, with only one twist and turn, he has already moved away from Duan Yanqing's stick wind.As soon as he landed, the leader turned to face him, the seven shouted in unison, and slapped him again.

Duan Yanqing received another palm, the blood in his chest was surging, he knew something was wrong.Immediately, the two sticks are moving, wanting to take the defensive position first, and then talk after seeing their footwork clearly.It's fine if you don't dodge it, the seven people's gait changes continuously after this dodge, they don't look like strangers, they really look like a slippery snake.No matter where Duan Yanqing dodges, the queue will only turn around and steadily block his way.No matter whether you are high or low, you can't avoid it.But one step was too slow to dodge, the leader was like a snake's head with venomous fangs, he stopped in front of him as soon as he turned around, and slashed at him with his palms.Duan Yanqing's feet are useless, and his movements are all supported by steel rods. It is a big taboo to advance and retreat like this.After a while, I felt my palms were sticky and soaked in sweat, and my heart suddenly felt cold.

Suddenly Murong Fu said in a loud voice: "His Royal Highness Duan, go to the Qian Palace and get out of the threshold."

The seven barbarians were ordered to besiege and kill Duan Yanqing, but they didn't know who Murong Fu was.Seeing him just standing quietly, his face pale, if he looked sick, he didn't take it to heart.After hearing these words suddenly, they were unfamiliar with Chinese, and they didn't know the knowledge of Jiugong and Bagua, so they couldn't understand it for a while.Duan Yanqing was startled, seeing two barbarians standing on the sill, it seemed that there was no opportunity to take advantage of it, and the leader was about to attack again, he had to dodge, he simply stretched out his stick, and his figure flashed.The leading barbarian had already sent out a palm strike, and with a movement of his steps, the formation reversed, and the two people who were originally standing stepped aside at this moment, allowing him to land on the corner of the ridge.His heart was agitated, he turned his head quickly and saw Murong Fu standing still on the ground, watching the footsteps of the seven people with both eyes, flexing and stretching the fingers of his right hand, muttering in his mouth, as if he couldn't stop counting, and raised his voice: "Zan Zhen Palace, get out of your seat."

Duan Yanqing was overjoyed and startled, and increased fear, he thought: "I heard that Gusu Murong's family collects martial arts from all over the world, can this kid figure out this strange formation at such a young age?" He didn't have time to think carefully, listened to Murong Fu One step at a time, one step at a time, two or three times, suddenly the leading barbarian said "Hey", his face changed color, at the same time, Murong Fu stopped shouting: "Take the position of Kun!" The streamer shines directly on the northwest corner.Duan Yanqing had just fallen into the position of Kun, and he was already standing in the position, when he suddenly heard seven barbarians shouting in unison, the voices were full of panic, horror and unbelievable meaning.

It turned out that these barbarians were Persian Manichaeans. This religion has been widely spread, and the later generations of Mingjiao in Middle Earth also came from their sect.According to the teachings of Mani, in ancient times, there were two dragon monsters who caused chaos and led the seven demons to fight against the lord of the seven planets.The sun, moon and light gods subdued the dragon monster and imprisoned the seven demons in the cosmic ecliptic, and the world was thus formed.This set of formations is the column of seven demons and seven stars, according to its orbit, the shape of a dragon and a snake is running.If you want to break the formation, you have to occupy the position of the Sun and Moon Shuangmingzun, the seven demons surrender, and the seven stars bow their heads, the formation will naturally fail.However, the orbits of the stars change in no way, and the solar terms are different, so the positions of the sun and the moon are greatly different.Don't say that no one in China knows this formation, even if they do, who can study the celestial phenomena in just a moment and calculate the corresponding position of the sun and the moon at this moment?Wan never expected to meet this Murong Fu.The two of them stepped on the positions of the sun and the moon, like two sharp knives, they immediately cut the living snake into three pieces from head to tail, and they couldn't look at each other.The Hu people's steps were chaotic, Duan Yanqing's steel stick got up early, chi chi several times, poked a hole in the chest of several people, blood spurted out, fell to the ground and died.Only the snake-headed and snake-tailed two remained far away, turned around and ran desperately, scrambling and running back to Lingzhou City.

Duan Yanqing panted for a moment while leaning on his stick, and sighed: "Thank you for your help, young master. Unexpectedly, this old man has lived his whole life, but today he is almost pecked at by geese."

Murong Fu said: "Your Highness's negligence of such tricks to deceive people's eyes is nothing. It's just that these people are just following orders, if you want to prevent future troubles forever, Your Highness, you need to think about it in the long run."

At this time Duan Yanqing had to accept his wisdom, he became even more vigilant, and thought: "He wants to use my hand to help the Tubo people and stir up chaos in Western Xia, so he can profit from it?" Indifferently said: "How to plan, young master is a great talent, but I still have to ask for advice."

But Murong Fu seemed unable to hear his sarcasm, and said sternly: "Your Highness Duan, I, the Murong family, are just like you. I am a wandering person who has fallen to the end of the world and has a country that is difficult to escape. I want to seek great things. The world is so big, but I have to do it." Your Highness can't do it with one person's strength. I came here tonight to help others as well as myself. If there is any offence, thank you here." Saying this, he bowed to the ground and bowed seriously.

Duan Yanqing didn't want him to be so blunt, but these few words were taken to heart by him, and he said: "Since Lord Xixia is on guard, with the abundance of talents in his palace, we will take advantage of the chaos to sneak in." , This matter is also difficult to achieve." He spoke in ventriloquism, his voice was flat and unchanged, but there was already a bit of emotion in his tone.

Murong Fu smiled slightly, and said: "Lord Xia occupies the people and the land, so it is naturally difficult to reach. But my Murong family has a small reputation in the Jianghu. I think His Highness Duan has heard of this reputation?"

Duan Yanqing was startled, and muttered: "Use the way of the other, and return it to the body. With the way..." Suddenly thinking of Yipintang, there was a gurgling sound in his throat, and said: "...Sorrowful breeze?!"

Murong Fu said: "Exactly."

Duan Yanqing's face was dull, his eyes flashed brightly, he only heard Murong Fu say: "I have two subordinates, who will stay in Xiazhu Palace tonight and wait for them for a long time. However, everything is ready, but I owe Dongfeng. Your Highness Duan, Are you willing to wait for Dongjun for me?"

Although Duan Yanqing's suspicions were not exhausted yet, but thinking of killing Duan Yu and his son several times, he would not let this opportunity pass lightly.Nodding his head, he said: "That's it, the old man's love for you, I will remember it." He jumped up, heard the screams and went north, and disappeared in the shadow of the dark city wall in a short while.

Murong Fu still raised his eyes and looked in the direction of Lingzhou, with a smile on his lips, but it was already covered with frost.

The person who told Xixia about Duan Yanqing's life experience and forced him to kill tonight was naturally not Duan Yu and his party, but himself.

One must know that Prince Yanqing's affairs are the secrets of the palace, unless his life is at stake, just like when Duan Yu was imprisoned in the Valley of Ten Thousand Tribulations, he had no choice but to invite the Yellow Browed Monk.How could it be easy to conspire with Xixia at this time?If Duan Yanqing thinks about it carefully, he may not be able to discover the key point.But he has been a villain in the world for decades, and what he sees every day is cruel, vicious, untrustworthy and unrighteous, and he has long been accustomed to it.From myself and others, I thought that Duan Yu and others were serious about this, and the word "resentment" had already fallen into Murong Fu's calculations.But he didn't know that Murong Fu was the only person in the world who pretended to be a Xixia warrior, and only then did he know the secret that Duan Yu was not poisoned by the sad breeze, so that attracted him, so how could it be the goodwill of Sima's bosom friend from Jiangzhou?

At this moment, Murong Fu sneered, a sudden thought came to his mind, but he said a little colder: "Actually, Li Liangzuo is planning. I should have seen it when I went to his palace last night. But...but this day and two nights , what am I... thinking about?"

Suddenly hearing the whistling of the wind, someone called out: "Young Master!" and rushed to it, it was Deng Baichuan and Gongye who were doing it.The fingertips in Murong Fu's sleeve couldn't help trembling, but there is only one person in this world who can make him lose his composure in person, and what the two retainers saw was still the white-clothed Young Master Murong, who just nodded and said: "How is it?"

Deng Baichuan replied: "Third and fourth brothers have already prepared, so there will be no mistakes. It's just that Jiumozhi has become a real monk since he became a real monk, so he added Duan Yanqing, can he really... break this situation?"

Murong Fu smiled but said: "Brother Deng thinks that I am here for Li Liangzuo's life?"

The two dared not reply, Murong Fu said again: "What kind of person is the Lord of Western Xia, he is well prepared, even Jiumozhi can't succeed here. Zongzan is just on the string, he has to fight, that's all. If this plan is [-]%, there will be chaos in Tubo, and the winner is Dali. In this game, I only want to fall on his Duan family!"

Deng Baichuan felt that he couldn't understand his words again, and replied: "Yes. My second brother and I will go to the palace to welcome you. We will report to you at any time about the Yanqing incident. It's just you...you..." For a while Hesitating, but unable to speak, he and Gongye Gan exchanged glances, and both saw the worry hidden in the other's eyes.

That night, he spent the night in the temple, but Murong Fu did not return all night.When he returned to the temple, his complexion was as ugly as at this moment, as if everyone had suffered a serious illness.He Nan Murong became famous as a young man, and he had never been injured in the world, let alone seriously injured, so he might not have such a pale complexion.The next time, seeing Wang Yuyan and Duan Yu came back together, everyone said that his cousins ​​had a dispute, so don't hug a beautiful woman, so they were sad.Bao BuTong secretly scolded all eighteen generations of Duan Yu's ancestors, but he couldn't imagine it.At this moment, seeing Murong Fu standing under the bright moonlight, his paleness became worse and his lips were bloodless, Deng Baichuan was worried, so he could only wink to his second brother, asking him to persuade him.

Among the four of them, Gong Yeqian had the deepest personal relationship with this young master, and vaguely felt that this matter was not for Wang Yuyan.But if not, for whom?But dare not think about it.He could only persuade vaguely: "My lord, you have worked so hard for the past few days, why don't you go and rest for a while. There is a big thing going on, it's useless to think about it, it's better... let it go!"

Murong Fu was shocked violently, with his level of self-control, the two people beside him saw the trembling from shoulder to fingertip.But in the blink of an eye, there was no disturbance, and he said plainly: "It's okay. You just wait and go."

Murong Fu couldn't hear how those two people responded and how they went to Lingzhou.The roar in his ears was the echo of Gong Yegan's sentence "let it go...let it go...let it go...".The overlapping moonlight seems to have turned into the darkness of Qingfeng Pavilion last night.The maid's voice was sweet and crisp, and she asked in succession:

"Young Master, where is the happiest place in your life?"

"Young Master, what is the name of the person you love the most in your life?"

The evening breeze was blowing, the moon was shining brightly, no one was around him, and Deng Baichuan and Gongyegan had already gone far away.But he still heard him murmuring, as if speaking to himself:

"...I don't have anyone I love most."