Relief

The war with Khitan in the north was not over, and there was another disturbance in Liangzhou City in the west.

"I heard that Liangzhou sent troops to suppress the border, and they have already reached Hengyun Pass!"

"The soldiers from Liangzhou are from the Liugu Department?"

"No, no, a relative of mine who does business at the border said that the soldiers who came were from the Yue family!"

The Liangcheng Yue family is a long-forgotten existence in the Central Plains. When Ganliang Dao was still part of the Guo Dynasty, the Yue family was only one of the few aristocratic sects in the north. The family turned over and became an indigenous warlord.

It was a hornet's nest that could not be provoked. I don't know who was not good at it and brought disaster to the country.

"Shhh - you can't talk casually about that one, gentlemen, be careful with your words."

"Bah, is it still in the past when he covered the sky with one hand? I heard that there was a lot of noise in Beijing not long ago because of the murder case, and now he has taken action against the Yue family without authorization, which angered Liangzhou. I'm afraid it will happen even now." His Majesty will not protect him any longer."

The post station outside the city of Chengdu Fu, where passers-by drink tea and take a break.It was a bit crowded today, and there was almost no room to sit in the tea shed. All the people in the four seats had their heads bowed and their backs bent. The atmosphere was very strange. It was really not a good place to talk about state affairs.Soon the gossipers were gone.

The tea drinkers at the last table were not in a hurry, and the carriage was still tied outside the tea shed. They were outsiders who had rushed to Shu County.

It should be said that the tea shed was full of outsiders at this time, and even the owner noticed the strange atmosphere and shrank behind the counter.The tea drinkers at that table were still leisurely, and slowly tidied up the messy skirts after the rush, and then got up to leave.As soon as the front foot left, those strange people on the back foot followed closely behind.

As soon as you enter Shu County, the bamboo sea is deep and empty, and the air becomes humid and warm.

The whereabouts of the carriage were lost among the bamboo leaves.

Tang Yu wore a bamboo hat to cover his face, and sat on the shaft of the car with a whip, and the curtain behind him was pulled open.

"Right here." Xie Zhixu said.

There is no wind in the depths of the bamboo forest, but the bamboo leaves are fluttering and rustling.

Tang Yu took out a set of steel claws from his arms and put them in his hands. "Don't leave here, the two people inside will be handed over to you." Xie Zhixu said, he retreated to the carriage and spread his hands to Feng Zhichang.Feng Zhichang looked at him for a while, then handed over the walking stick, Xie Zhixu grabbed the handle and pulled out the rapier, the precipitous aura outside the carriage had already formed a wind gust of hunting and strangling.

The road to Shu is as difficult as going up to the blue sky. From now on, there will be nine twists and turns, and the mountains and rocks are steep and dangerous.Years ago, Liu Sheng and Wang Sheng both passed through when they served as Shu officials. Liu Sheng was unwilling to take the risk first, and finally stayed in Jiuzhehuipo.

Many years later, the bamboo sea in front of Jiuzheban welcomes many strange guests.

Xie Zhixu squinted his eyes and looked around: "What kind of guy are you with green eyes?"

Wu Li's voice came from the carriage: "The one with green eyes is a wolf, and the one with claws is a jackal."

Jackals are around.

Being attacked by a group, Feng Zhichang and Wu Li didn't seem to panic at all, they each held a bamboo tube and stretched out the curtain of the car.

"I didn't expect that the confidential place still had the strength to chase here. The four evils went to the three. I thought Wang Xiang would be more restrained."

Knowing that Changquan doesn't matter, fill the powder into the thin bamboo tube.

"Oh, I thought of it," Wu Li said, "Ximen Lang was planted in your hands, and Xiao Wu killed Zhou Cai again. Maybe the jackal came to seek revenge from you two. Hey, then I was completely forced You two are tired."

With a cold face, Feng Zhichang knocked on the window frame with a bamboo tube like a tobacco rod, signaling Wu Li to stop talking nonsense.

With outnumbered enemies, there is still room for strength, and the wolves couldn't help becoming more cautious, and were overwhelmed by Xie Zhixu's swift and sharp attack.No one noticed that the two wisps of green smoke quietly scattered into the air under the bay window of the carriage.

"Does Wang Xiang want to cut the weeds and root them out?" Xie Zhixu wiped away the blood that the two had grabbed with his sleeve, still calmly in the shadow of swords and swords, "Okay, let's try, who will stay in this forest forever today. "

The dark wind passes through the bamboo forest, and the dark clouds block out the sun.

The jackal and the prey looked up at the same time, and saw huge kites flying past their heads——

Kite?

The kites cast countless shadows, like raindrops falling into the depths of the densely-packed seclusion.The pack of wolves mixed with the falcons, and they started fighting each other. Xie Zhixu held the duo, and looked up at a white-faced young man standing on the top of the tall bamboo, dressed as a scholar in his robe and hat.

"I have ordered you to come here to break the siege of Xie's orphaned son, and to make arbitrarily disregarding human life in the confidential department, and kill him on the spot."

The scholar's voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard by everyone on the ground.The wolves who had been led by Ximen Lang and Zhou Cai in the secret department realized that they had become outcasts, and immediately fought against the trapped beasts, and their moves became especially fierce.However, the falcon that descended from the sky seemed to be the blade of the royal family hidden in the dark. When it saw the light, it showed a cold light and killed the wolves.

Instead, Xie Zhixu was useless, and he and Tang Yu guarded the shaft of the car, looking at each other.

The white-faced little student on the high place fluttered his clothes, and said leisurely: "The villain is ordered to pass on the word of mouth, the old kindness of the Xie family is now cleared, Mr. Xie can go away, don't miss the old place."

——It means to go as far as you can, and not to cause trouble for him.

'I know, don't come out. ' Xie Zhixu said silently.

——It's a pity, a pity.

Feng Zhichang sighed and said:

——This person came at an inopportune time.

how?Before Xie Zhixu could ask, the bamboo forest was full of changes!

I saw no matter whether it was a jackal or a falcon, the weapons in their hands fell to the ground suddenly, they all screamed and struggled, but they couldn't make a sound, they tore the cloth, scratched the skin, black blood flowed out from all seven orifices.

When it fell to the ground, it had turned into a puddle of corpse water, and the grass withered where the water overflowed.

Xie Zhixu: "..."

Tang Yu: "..."

The white-faced boy stood on the top of the forest, immediately tore off a piece of his sleeve to cover his mouth and nose, his gaze was like a falcon looking straight at the two living people on the ground outside the carriage.

Xie Zhixu spread his hands: "My lord, it was an accidental injury. We didn't expect that there would be rescuers before we did it—" Before the words were finished, the white-faced boy raised his hands, and his outer robe spread the wings of a kite. Glide away with the wind.

"This is a big misunderstanding... He originally wanted to help us, don't go back and report it and think that we deliberately provoked you?" Xie Zhixu got back into the carriage, and the carriage started again towards the ditch-like Shu Road.

That being said, the three of them didn't take it seriously.

Wu Li said: "If that person really intends to let you go, this kind of misunderstanding is nothing. If he also has murderous intentions, it doesn't matter whether we provoke you or not."

Xie Zhixu found a comfortable position to lie down, and suddenly a huge stone fell to the ground.The arrival of the white-faced young man explained a very important message-after Wang Xiang experienced the turmoil in the public, the impeachment of Yushitai and the Liangzhou incident, he finally lost his sacred heart and had nothing to rely on.So how much time is left before all his evil deeds are liquidated?

How far is it to the day when all his henchmen are expelled and Xie Zhixu witnesses the arrest of Hou Daizhao?

The long-lost breeze from the Shu land is sent into the carriage, and the muddy smell of the mountains, the grass is clear, and the flowers are fragrant, all the way is familiar and hearty.

Xie Zhixu's lungs were cleared of turbid air, he felt relaxed, and suddenly something was wrong with his body, just now he also inhaled a little bit of poison powder in the bamboo forest.He slid lazily against the wall of the car, slipped and fell on Feng Zhichang's lap, and waited for the antidote as if he was cheating.The fragrance of clothes is warm, intoxicating and gentle.Only Tang Yu, a pitiful coachman, bumped along the shaft of the carriage, his skin was rough and his flesh was so thick that he had no sense of crisis.

Walk across the trestle bridge, go down to the ditch, and brush away the weeds that grow wildly to the waist due to no one to take care of them. The stone steps of the manor are covered with moss, and they are so dilapidated that they don’t seem to be inhabited for a long time.

"No way, are we coming back late?" Wu Li whispered.Several people stood in the bushes on the stone steps, and suddenly no one dared to come forward and call for the door.This is the first time Xie Zhixu has returned to Liuzhuang after a year, but in front of him is a deserted scene.

Back in Shu County, Tang Yu still followed Feng Zhichang silently and faithfully, but he was also a little absent-minded at the moment.Feng Zhichang put one hand on his shoulder and looked sideways to show that Jiuzheban Liuzhuang and Tangmen are two famous sects in Shu County. If something happens to Liuzhuang, Tangmen will not be spared, but Tang Yu's duty is to protect Feng. Knowing that it is always safe, even at this moment, one cannot leave.

"A person like Mr. Wang, can he still disappear without a sound?" Wu Li said depressedly.

Xie Zhixu didn't answer, his eyes fell on the Xuexi River, that stream originally flowed into the manor from the side door, and formed a small pool across the courtyard, but now it changed its course, passed by Liuzhuang, and flowed into the deep depression place.

The lake surrounded by nine steep mountains has never been seen before. It seems to have been directly moved from the cross courtyard of Liuzhuang. In the light, a little white peak of the snow mountain is exposed.

The three people by the lake were puzzled.

"Did this lake exist before?"

Xie Zhixu didn't remember it either, just shaking his head, he saw a bamboo raft rowing in the distance in the round mirror in the middle of the lake.

Xie Zhixu and Wu Li: "Oh!"

Jiuzhezi stood on the bamboo raft, with a person sitting behind his back, his legs hanging down into the lake, and the water rippled away from his feet.

"It's faster to row a boat with your legs than with your hands." The man drew back and stood up, facing the lake. It turned out to be Kong Shaoshu, smiling kindly at the three juniors, "Come up? Take you to your new home."

On the second day after the Yue family retreated, the three brothers who rushed back to Shu County all the way missed the first-hand news because of laziness.

The new manor was built halfway up the mountain. After crossing the mirror lake and walking into the mountain road, behind an exquisite yellow bamboo pavilion with double eaves is the gate of the manor.

Mr. served morning tea in the garden, and sat and drank with Tang Sect Master.

"I didn't expect that Wang Xiang would be pushed out as a shield one day. Now people will lose their hearts, and I'm afraid they are not far from downfall."

The gentleman didn't respond and took a sip of tea.

"I heard that Mr. Wang also had some friendship with Wang Xiang. Is he such an unreasonable guy? A while ago, he made Zhou Jack come to trouble Mr.. Will this kind of person really get retribution sooner or later..."

Tang Zongzhu raised his eyes to look at the gentleman who refused to answer, and finally closed his voice with interest.

The girls of the manor under the corridor gathered together to pick the early-ripe persimmons from the persimmon trees in the yard with a long pole ladle, and there was a bright dawn among the green leaves.The door of the wing room opened, and Xie Zhixu walked out stretching.

"Breakfast, brother five?" the girls laughed and coaxed, "There's still something to eat, sir."

Xie Zhixu paced over, and the topic happened to touch on the former friendship between Mr. Wang and Xiang Wang.

"What do you want to eat?" The gentleman glanced at him.

"Is it okay to listen while eating?" Xie Zhixu sat down cross-legged, picked up the jujube cake on the plate and took a bite, "You and Wang Xiang's past."