Chen Shi

The king of the Southwest used his voice to strike east and west, using Jiangxi and Fujian to hold the attention of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and he hooked up with the Yan court in the north;On the one hand, he and Jiangxi made a false appointment, and on the other hand, he went to Nanchang to disrupt the situation.

Although Chen Zhi understood what he meant, he felt that he did not have to do it himself: "I am most comfortable with things like destroying the alliance. I will bring people there, so you don't have to worry about it."

Rong Yun opened her eyes wide in disbelief: "Master is going to leave me alone?"

Chen Zhi said, "Lin Zhiyuan is with you."

Rong Yun said angrily: "He is him, and Master is Master. How can we compare? And I told Master about this. Master, if you drive the more open, you will cross the river and tear down the bridge!"

Chen Zhi said leisurely, "Do you want to add another word of ungrateful?"

Rong Yun asked cautiously: "...Can I go with Master if I add it?"

Chen Zhi sneered: "I can't."

Rong Yun bit her lower lip and looked at him fixedly.Although he looked aggrieved, Chen Zhi could feel that his head must be thinking of some evil ideas.Sure enough, Rong Yun seemed to have made up her mind, and sighed: "If the master won't let me go, then I have to follow secretly, just like the master did last time. But I am young and have little experience in going out, so I must not be as good as the master." You can do it with ease. You may meet bad guys, assassins, killers on the road... If you are unlucky, you will die like this, and there is no one to collect the body. Sigh."

……

He still dares to "ah"? !

Chen Zhi stretched out his hand, and pinched his face fiercely: "Do you remember what I told you on the first day of entry?"

Rong Yun looked at him whether she wanted to cry or not, but didn't speak.

Chen Zhi grabbed the other side of his face: "If you don't say anything, just face the wall."

Rong Yun had no choice but to say with the corners of her mouth: "Listen to... the fourth father."

Chen Zhi let go of his hand: "Say it again."

Rong Yun said: "I know that Master wants to protect, but Master once said that he hopes that I will rule the world, create a prosperous world, let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and no longer have the innocent people implicated like my parents. I don't know what kind of person can Fulfill Master's ideal, but he is definitely not someone who only cares about his own safety and sends the most important people to danger."

Chen Zhi was speechless.

Seeing his expression loosen, Rong Yun immediately held his hands and said, "Master, let me go, I will listen to you."

Chen Zhi said angrily, "You won't listen to me now."

Rong Yun didn't argue, but looked at him flatteringly.

Chen Zhi lost his temper when he saw him, and rubbed his face vigorously: "Before you leave, face the wall!"

Master has an order, so I have to listen.

Rong Yun had no choice but to give orders to the wall.With the experience of going to Nanchang, he didn't dare to take risks alone and hurt his master. Not only did he arrange four guards in the front, back, left, and right to protect secretly, he also dispatched two elite soldiers to detour from Anqing, Huangzhou, and Yuezhou to the vicinity of Changsha to stand by.

When he was busy, Chen Zhi was not idle, and told Tan Shu to take care of Gu Rongyun temporarily, and he wanted to go to heaven.Speaking of which, after going down the mountain to reconcile with Tan Shu, he seldom went back to Huang Tianya to communicate, and he also missed Xiantong at all.

Tan Shu said: "Are you going to read Huang Gui's content? I have some here, you can take a look first."

"Except for Huang Gui, I want Jun Wu to pinch my face." Chen Zhi said while taking Huang Gui from him.

Tan Shu asked in a daze, "What are you pinching your face for?"

Chen Zhi said: "I want to go to Changsha with Rong Yun, so I have to disguise myself."

I thought that Tan Shu would prevent Rong Yun from going into danger, but he still focused on pinching his face: "Ordinary people have ways to disguise themselves." Then, he rummaged through boxes and chests and took out a box, and opened it carefully.

Chen Zhi poked his head and saw a stack of imitation human skin masks: "Won't this stick up when you wear it on your face?"

"I'll help you wear it." Tan Shu took out a porcelain bottle from the box, poured out some white and thick liquid, hung it inside the mask, and put it on Chen Zhi's face.

Chen Zhi dodged subconsciously.

"Don't move." Tan Shu quickly threw the mask on his face.

Chen Zhi felt that the liquid behind the mask was like a paste, firmly sticking to his skin, and the coolness made his hair stand on end: "What is this?"

Tan Shu helped him smooth out the edges and corners of the mask: "Everyone's bones are different, and it is difficult for the mask to fit completely, so I used 'batter' to prop up the empty space. Fortunately, your face is small, so you won't Too abrupt."

As he said that, the mask was completely attached to Chen Zhi's face.

Chen Zhi immediately looked in the mirror.

The brass mirror could only show a hazy outline, so Tan Shu cast a spell to make a water mirror, and Chen Zhi's "new face" was reflected on the water mirror, shining brightly.

Chen Zhi said blankly, "Who is this handsome man?"

Tan Shu mentioned a name, and it was indeed a famous handsome man in history. He also took out other masks in the box and introduced them one by one.

Chen Zhi was dumbfounded: "Why do you collect so many human skin masks of handsome men and beautiful women?"

"It's an imitation human-skin mask." Tan Shu said, "Since you want to change your face, you must change it to a good-looking one. Otherwise, why bother?"

Chen Zhi said: "An ordinary face is not easy to attract attention."

Tan Shu said: "Why? After finally wearing a mask, isn't it more pleasant to attract envious and admiring eyes from others? Besides, it is easier to get help if you are good-looking when you are out of the house."

Chen Zhi had nothing to say.

Seeing that he really didn't want good-looking ones, Tan Shu picked a slightly inferior one: "I made this one based on the face of a human nobleman. It looks more ordinary. I don't know if you like it."

Just looking at the mask, he couldn't tell whether it looked good or bad, so he tried it on.

Chen Zhi feels that Epiphyllum differs from human beings not only in their attitude towards feelings, but also in their aesthetics.This is not ordinary, it is obviously better looking than the previous ones: "Who is this?"

"Looks like the surname is Xue."

"..."

Chen Zhi finally picked out an outstandingly delicate face. Compared with other faces, this one was at least very cool and beautiful, neither enchanting nor aggressive.

Tan Shu wanted to give him the rest: "You take these for self-defense."

The kindness was hard to come by, Chen Zhi picked two and put them in the Qiankun bag.

Tan Shu gave Huang Gui to him again: "It's still the original plot, without details, and the time doesn't match the present, but the direction of the characters is always the same."

Huang Gui said: When Rong Yun was 16 years old, the king of the Southwest had the intention to attack Huguang, and held a banquet of hundreds of beautiful things, inviting all the heroes of the world to gather in Guangzhou.

But the reality is that just after Rong Yun's 14th birthday, King Xinnan conquered Huguang and made an alliance with the Yan Dynasty in the north.

Chen Zhi sighed: "I don't know if it was right or wrong for me to bring Rong Yun down the mountain ahead of time." The appearance of Rong Yun not only accelerated the development of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but also stimulated the Southwest King and accelerated his pace of striving for hegemony.

Tan Shu said: "Before I was afraid of wolves, but later I was afraid of tigers. If you don't fight a battle, you will lose. I think Rong Yun is doing very well now, and I believe she will be able to be on her own soon."

If you don't do well, there is no turning back.

Being cautious is sometimes only a thin line from being critical and finding faults.A little mistake has to be magnified several times, and in the end it will become timid and achieve nothing.

He knew this truth, so even though Rong Yun's fate had deviated from the way of heaven, he could only bite the bullet and go on.

The meeting was imminent, and they didn't have much time to prepare. On the fourth day, Rong Yun and Chen Zhi set off.They are well-known, only two masters and apprentices go on the road, which is too suspicious, so they specially brought the coachman and nanny, Rong Yun volunteered to dress up as servants, and formed a three-person team of servants to serve Chen Zhi, the son of a rich family.

Chen Zhi also gave Rong Yun a mask, he thought it was too stuffy to wear, and said he would save it for emergency situations.

The young master's tour group set off, passed through Fujian, and headed to Changsha.

On the way, Rong Yun was very devoted to the role, cared for Chen Zhi, and took care of him. Apart from driving the car, she took care of all the other tasks by herself, which made the martial arts master pretending to be a nanny very embarrassed. She couldn't help laughing once and said: "My nanny has no milk and no effort. It really doesn't deserve the name. Fortunately, she has given birth to two children, and she is still worthy of the word 'mother'."

Chen Zhi took advantage of the situation with a smile and said, "You really deserve your name."

Rong Yun approached obsequiously: "Then what reward does the master have?"

Chen Zhi took out a copper coin and gave it to him: "Here."

Rong Yun held the copper plate as if she had found a treasure, and thanked her endlessly.

Chen Zhi smiled and said, "A copper plate is worth it?"

Rong Yun said: "Although the copper plate is worthless, it is different if the master rewards it."

Chen Zhi had heard the same sentence pattern, replacing "Master" with "Master" so many times, and smiled perfunctorily.

The carriage quickly left Jiangsu and Zhejiang and came to Fujian.

When they arrived at the opposite family's site, several people were very low-key.Rong Yun put on the mask. Although the facial features were beautiful, the nanny put some ashes on the human skin mask to make her face gray and not so eye-catching.

Chen Zhi originally wanted to wipe it off, but was stopped by the nanny: "The master is spoiled, so he should be more white and tender."

After passing through Fujian, they passed Ganzhou, Jiangxi, and arrived at Hengzhou, Huguang.

Although the journey was safe and sound, they all knew that the further they went, the stricter their guards would be.

Sure enough, when they were staying in Lihou Village on the edge of Hengyang, they clearly felt prying eyes from all around them.There are too many eyes, benign and malicious, and all kinds of things, making it impossible for people to find out.

Chen Zhi stayed at the village head's house.

The village chief wanted to decline, but was persuaded by his son.

The son of the village head said: "How can we keep the guests away when they come from afar."

Although he was very hospitable, Chen Zhi still felt that something was wrong, so he asked, "If it's inconvenient, we can go to another place to stay. I also ask this brother to point out a way."

The son of the village head said: "Our house is the largest place in the village, and we can squeeze out a guest room, but we have to trouble our servants to make the firewood room for the whole night."

Speaking of this, it would be unreasonable to go any further, and both the nanny and the coachman were experienced people in the world, and they didn't insist on leaving, so Chen Zhi took advantage of the trend to stay.

Chen Zhi left Rong Yun in the house on the pretext that he needed someone to take care of him.The coachman said that it was inappropriate for him to live in the same room with the nanny, a man and a widow, and asked to make a floor shop at the door of Chen Zhi.In this way, several people will be arranged properly.

After they moved in, the village head returned to the house with an excuse, and his son entertained him all the time, killing chickens for a while, and borrowing vegetables from the next door.

It's just that at dinner, the nanny pretended to serve Chen Zhi and picked up vegetables beside her.The chopsticks hung in the air for a long time, seeming to be picky about the food, and finally put a piece of chicken in Chen Zhi's bowl, and said in a low voice: "At least it's a live chicken. Although it's boiled for nothing, it's better than being fresh. I invite you to taste it."

Chen Zhi glanced at her, bowed his head and ate the chicken.

Seeing that he only ate chicken, the village head's son was anxious, so he said, "I also cooked rice, so here's a bowl for you."

The nanny said: "My master never eats brown rice."

The village chief's son wanted to bring him vegetables.

The nanny said again: "Master doesn't eat vegetables that are not freshly picked from the field."

The village head's son had no choice but to smile wryly: "Then eat more chicken, don't be polite, just treat yourself like your own family."

After the nanny finished playing, Chen Zhi came on stage, thanking him with a smile, with a kind and kind look on his face.

Before going to bed to wash up, the son of the village chief brought water on purpose, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw that the "boy" was already waiting for the master to wash his face.The nanny said: "Thank you, master. I will save this water for my master to wash his feet. It's just better to boil some hot water. In this weather, it is most likely to be cold."

The village chief's son asked, "Where did you get this water?"

The nanny said, "The creek in front of the door."

That is living water.

The village chief was depressed during the day, so he laughed dryly and went to boil the water.

After a day of tossing, I was finally able to sleep at night.But Chen Zhi didn't dare to relax, because the nanny told them before leaving that the vegetables were soaked in sweat medicine, and the bucket of water brought by the village chief's son was also faulty.He failed to make two shots, and he was afraid that he would make another move tonight, so he told them to be careful.

Chen Zhi was a little worried that Rong Yun's identity would be seen through.

Rong Yun comforted him in turn: "If he knew our identities, he wouldn't dare to do this."

Knowing that it is Rong Yun, one knows that there must be masters around him, so how dare he use these indiscriminate tricks.

Chen Zhi said, "Could it be that we entered a black shop?"

Rong Yun said, "The village chief may know about it."

However, it was the son who was going to deal with them, and the village chief might not be willing to tell the truth.Therefore, we can only use the old method.

After turning off the lights, Chen Zhi wanted to sneak around to find out, but was held back by Rong Yun, begging that he would go too.

There is only one invisibility talisman, how could Chen Zhi agree: "Always leave someone in the room to pretend."

Chen Zhi then coaxed him: "I'll come back right away when there's a result."

Rong Yun had no choice but to tell him to be careful.I thought to myself, the village chief's house is not big, anyway, I can't fall asleep until the master comes back, so if there is something wrong, I will definitely hear it.

Seeing that he was spreading the quilt obediently and creating the illusion that he was sleeping in the quilt, Chen Zhi went out with peace of mind.He said he was going to the toilet, and when he turned a corner, he stuck to the amulet and listened to the foot of the wall.

The old village head lived in the east wing of the second entrance, and the village head's son lived opposite them.

Now that the lights in both rooms were on, Chen Zhi was thinking about which house to go to, when he saw a figure flickering in the old village chief's house, he immediately walked over.

The old village chief's daughter-in-law was spreading the quilt, the old village chief walked around the table and sat down again with a sigh.

The daughter-in-law said: "You have been walking all night, can you be quiet for a while."

The old village chief slapped the table and said, "You're a sinner!"

The daughter-in-law was startled, and hurried over to cover his mouth: "What are you doing? Do you want to spoil the child's good deeds?"

"Is what he did a good thing?"

"Why not? Didn't he say that as long as you send people up, you can work next to the county magistrate. Who is the county magistrate? We climbed up to him, not to mention whether our son can be admitted as a scholar in the future, how can we eat and drink?" Always worry-free."

The old village head didn't speak again.

Seeing that they were silent, Chen Zhi was feeling bored when he heard the door of the village chief's son knock. He went straight to the door of the old village chief's house, reached out his hand to knock on the door, thought for a while, held back, turned and walked out.

Chen Zhi followed behind him, watching him take out a handkerchief from his pocket, and quickly covered the driver's mouth and nose with it.The coachman "woke up from his sleep", struggled twice, and then stopped moving.

The village chief's son heaved a sigh of relief, put the handkerchief back into his sleeve, and tiptoed to the window. With some saliva on his fingers, he poked a hole in the window paper, then took out a copper pipe, inserted it into the hole, and inserted it into the window. blow...

This set of actions left Chen Zhi dumbfounded.

This old-fashioned skillful technique can be seen as regular practice.

Chen Zhi walked behind him and blew on the back of his neck.

The village chief's son was already guilty of a crime, but he was so scared that he almost cried out.Fortunately, he was still a little sane, knowing that what he was doing was shady, so he controlled his expression at the critical moment, and just glanced around in panic.

Chen Zhi took another breath.

The village head's son was so frightened that he lost his copper pipe and wanted to run away. The coachman who was lying on the ground suddenly stood up straight and looked at him without blinking. His expression was like a corpse.

This time he couldn't bear it any longer, and screamed "Ah".

The village chief's son was tied into rice dumplings and hung on a tree.

The village head and his daughter-in-law cried bitterly under the tree, begging for mercy.

Nianzai village chief sighed and sighed for them several times, Chen Zhi didn't want to embarrass them too much, and asked: "As the village chief, you should be a role model for the whole village, why did you allow yourself to commit murder?"

The village chief cried miserably: "I, I didn't want to kill you, I, we were forced to."

Chen Zhi said: "I hate the most when other people do bad things and put on a forced and helpless posture. Now that they have done it, why don't they dare to bear it?"

The nanny sneered and said, "I've seen this kind of people who see profit and forget justice a lot, but it's the first time that they are so useless."

The village head said: "You have misunderstood, we are not greedy for money."

The nanny said, "Oh? So you guys just like killing people?"

The daughter-in-law said: "No, my lord, please forgive us this time. Master Qingtian, we really didn't mean it." Although she talked a lot, no one could understand a word.

Chen Zhi still asked the village chief to speak.

The village chief said: "This is an order from the magistrate of the county. Every village must hand over three good-looking men. We are all peasants, so there are no good-looking men. We managed to get two of them together, but we still have to pay for them." There is only one short, so we must make up all of them. The county magistrate said, either find another one, or let my son make up the number... Our family has three generations of single inheritance, if we send it out, we will really lose all children and grandchildren!"

Chen Zhi said, "It seems that you know what the magistrate wants a man to do."

The village chief wiped away his tears and said, "Yes, we all know. It was dedicated to the King of Southwest, and he went to be a son."

Chen Zhi was dumbfounded.

Is the king of the Southwest already hungry to this point?

He couldn't help but look at the village chief's son hanging from the tree.It can't be said to be ugly, but it is definitely not good-looking, at least not comparable to the Wu family and the Fang family.I don't know if it's because the Southwest King has changed his taste recently, or if the magistrate's taste is too strong.

The village head said: "Please forgive us this time, we will never dare in the future."

Chen Zhi asked the village chief's son to be put down.

The son of the village chief hanged himself for a long time, his face was pale, and he said falteringly: "It's not just us, but other villages are the same. You are so good-looking, even if we didn't do it, other people will definitely do it."

The village chief slapped him hard on the back: "What are you talking about! Hurry up and apologize to the strong man!"

"Strong Man Rong" glanced at him coldly, and the village head's son immediately dared not speak.

Although the behavior of the village chief's son is shameful, in the final analysis, it was caused by the absurdity of the superiors.And the absurdity of the high-ranking person originated from the lack of the Son of Heaven, and if he pursued it further down, he could also be regarded as his own fault.

Chen Zhi couldn't bear to embarrass them, and after finding an excuse, he exposed the matter.

Back in the room, Chen Zhi considered taking out his silver mask.At first, he was afraid that his outfit would reveal his identity, but now he found that revealing his "beauty" was more serious than revealing his identity.

After Rong Yun came back, she was full of worries.

Chen Zhi lay down and was about to go to sleep when he suddenly said, "Master, I want the village head to send me to the county magistrate."

"……what?"

Rong Yun said: "In this way, we will be able to mix with the King of Southwest."

Chen Zhi felt that his thoughts were dangerous: "Do you still remember the "Book of the Moon" I showed you?"

As a life enlightenment book, it was hard for Rong Yun not to remember, so she hummed lightly.

Chen Zhi said: "Come on, read to me, the union of a man and a woman is the right way."

"...The combination of men and women is the right way."

"Men and men fall in love... No, it's against the law of heaven for men and women to love each other."

Rong Yun said, "Master, I just want to get in."

"The King of Southwest is a broken sleeve. Look in the mirror and see your face clearly, and then tell me carefully how far you are going to go." According to what Huang Gui said, the King of Southwest must have hated Rong Yun at that time. Still put him in the second place in Baimei, which shows the love for his appearance.Otherwise, if you put it at the end, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing!