The king is the guide of the ministers

Being able to use this as a weapon can save a lot of things. "Xuanyuan Lingye said.

The corners of Liu Ci's lips twitched: Young master, should I be glad you abdicated?

Chapter 004: Passers-by A, B, C, D

After walking for a while, I realized that the air has become warmer, and there is no need to smell any weird smell.After arriving at the hot springs, there are indeed seven large and small springs here.Liu Ci walked to the nearby spring and bent down to put his hand into it, but the water temperature was too hot at one point, and too cold at one point.It must be very comfortable to run at such a just right temperature.

"It's developed here, it's good to be a bathing place." After Liu Ci said, he sat down by the spring with a smile, took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trousers and put his feet in the spring water.

"Isn't there poisonous gas?" Xuanyuan Lingye looked at Liu Ci's leisurely look, unavoidably worried about the sudden poisonous gas.

Liu Ci turned his face to Xuanyuan Lingye, and said with a bright smile: "It's okay, there's still time to leave. Come and sit down!"

Xuanyuan Lingye hugged Li'er and sat down next to Liu Ci. When Li'er saw Liu Ci, she was so happy that she wanted to rush towards him. Liu Ci subconsciously hid aside while covering her chest.Seeing Liu Ci's actions like this, Xuanyuan Lingye grabbed the restless Li'er tightly.

"Did he bite you?" Xuanyuan Lingye frowned, and stretched out a hand to pull Liu Ci over to have a look, but Liu Ci refused to let him go.

"Don't touch it! It hurts!" Liu Ci frowned.

Suddenly Liu Ci stopped his voice, Xuanyuan Lingye turned his head, and following Liu Ci's line of sight, he saw a man who looked like an officer twist Ye Lin up with one hand, and put a big steel knife on his neck .

"Who told you to come here? Didn't you see that outsiders are not allowed to enter here?"

The man was over forty years old, or the weather-beaten face looked much older than he was.He almost roared this sentence to Liu Ci and Xuanyuan Lingye.

Liu Ci looked at Xuanyuan Lingye in puzzlement, and asked in a low voice, "Is it forbidden to enter here?"

Xuanyuan Lingye said: "I don't know, no one has mentioned it to me. But I have a feeling that they really want us to come here."

Liu Ci's eyebrows twitched slightly: "I also feel this way!"

Xuanyuan Lingye smiled calmly, as if ignoring the existence of that person, but he lifted Liu Ci's feet soaked in the spring water.The moistened feet looked extraordinarily pink, Xuanyuan Lingye's eyes suddenly lit up, he hadn't noticed before that Liu Ci's feet were also pretty.

Carefully wiped off the drops of water hanging from Liu Ci's feet, and put on his shoes and socks.

Xuanyuan Lingye raised her eyes and smiled charmingly at Liu Ci: "I want to hang a bell on your foot."

Liu Ci withdrew his feet from Xuanyuan Lingye's arms embarrassingly: "Don't! You'd better take this thought back!"

Looking at the flirting two people over there, veins burst out on the man's forehead: "Who are you guys!" Few people can be so calm in this situation, and even the man who was pinched in his hands This little kid was actually able to keep from crying or fussing.

For a moment, the man himself panicked, and the hand holding the knife trembled involuntarily.

"Don't kill like others if you have no guts!" Ye Lin said coldly, still with that dead face.

Liu Ci smiled and said, "We are just passersby. I am passerby A, this is passerby B, the one you are holding is passerby C, and this little guy is passerby D."

The man looked at the "family" in a daze, then glared at Liu Ci and said, "Aren't you fooling me? How can there be such a weird name in this world! And the age difference between your four brothers is too far!"

ha?The corners of Liu Ci's lips twitched twice: This person's IQ needs to be verified!

"Second brother, someone is laughing at us again!" Liu Ci pushed Xuanyuan Lingye.

And Xuanyuan Lingye clenched his hands into fists and coughed lightly twice on his lips, suppressed a smile, turned his face away, and stopped looking at the expression on the man's face.

Liu Ci smiled at the man: "I'm sorry, this strong man. Although my second brother looks a bit older, he has never seen the world and is very shy. He is not joking at you, so don't think too much! Hehe ..."

Seeing the troubled expression on the man's face, Liu Ci cleared his throat, and continued: "We didn't know these things when we first came to Guidi. We just heard that the hot springs here are famous, so we came here to take a look. If it's not convenient, Let's go now."

"You can't leave..." The man's eyes suddenly darkened.

Waiting for an opportunity, Xuanyuan Lingye knocked down the man's steel knife and rescued Ye Lin from his grasp.Liu Ci hugged Li'er, snuggled up beside Xuanyuan Lingye with a smile, and said to the big man: "I forgot to tell you, my second brother has delusions, he always fantasizes that he is the number one master in martial arts."

Xuanyuan Lingye took Ye Lin with one hand and Liu Ci who was afraid of chaos in the world with the other and jumped away from there.

The man was clutching his right hand in pain. The man's skill was really strong just now, but just for a moment, it was as if all the muscles and bones inside his hand were shattered.

The man wanted to pick up the knife, but he couldn't get the knife after hurting his hand.At this moment, the masked man walked to his side, the dagger slipped from his sleeve, and plunged into the man's chest.

The man looked at the man who killed him in disbelief, and opened his mouth wide: "You...you..."

"Useless people, it's better to die!" The man's voice was like the sound of heaven, but when he stretched out his hand to push the man away, the man fell to the ground, and blood gushed out of his chest.The man glanced at his soiled outer shirt in disgust, threw the dagger beside the man's body, took off his outer shirt and threw it away.

The fluttering gauze jacket covered the man's wide-open eyes.

"Passerby A, B, C, D? It's really interesting. I never thought that I could meet that romantic emperor here for the sake of beauty." The man who couldn't see his emotions under the mask began to think about it in his heart.

Ever since he passed by Liu Ci at the inn that day, he felt that this newcomer was not easy.After several inquiries, they were quietly led to the hot spring in the dark.After doing so many things, he only confirmed one thing.The person who called himself Passerby A was undoubtedly the former Prime Minister Liu Ci.Needless to say, the other person must be Xuanyuan Lingye!

Just what are they doing here?Could it be that the abdication was just to deceive others?In fact, he is secretly eradicating dissidents for himself?

If this is the case, then Xuanyuan Lingye and Liu Ci's scheming is too serious!

The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became, that person once told him that Liu Ci was very smart.If they discovered the secret of this town, wouldn't the previous efforts be in vain?The man clenched his fists: We should act first!

An eagle was circling in the sky, and he stretched out his arms to let the eagle land on him.Then he untied the note tied on the eagle's claw.

"Don't startle the snake." The short six words made the man a little anxious.

It seems that that person already knew the news that Liu Ci and Xuanyuan Lingye had arrived here, but he obviously hadn't passed on the news, so how did that person know?Could it be that he has been investigating the whereabouts of Xuanyuan Lingye and Liu Ci?

"I'm afraid it's too late..." the man said softly.Destroy the note, and the man disappears down the path.

Xuanyuan Lingye brought Liu Ci back to the inn, and the people in the inn saw that they came back safe and sound, all of them showed surprise on their faces.Although it was covered up in an instant, it couldn't escape the eyes of the two of them.

Liu Ci frowned slightly: Sure enough, he deliberately wanted to lure us over!

"Let's get out of here quickly!" In the room, Liu Ci, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly stood up and tidied up his burden.

"If you don't find out the truth, won't you be unable to sleep?" Xuanyuan Lingye laughed.

"That's right! But I have to think for ourselves. We can't follow up on this matter. You write a letter to Si Ye and ask him to send troops to tell the peace here." Liu Ci turned to look at Xuanyuan Lingye, and said : "There are rich sulfur mines here. If they are secretly mined and transported away, Dongting will lose a lot. You know, sulfur can be used to make explosives. If the technology improves, there will be muskets and artillery .These things are much more lethal than swords!"

Xuanyuan Lingye nodded: "I'll write a letter to Siye right now."

Liu Ci looked at Xuanyuan Lingye who was writing with a brush.Asked: "How do you send this letter?"

Xuanyuan Lingye put down the pen, then turned around and took out a Xiao from the bag.Walking to the window and opening it, Xuanyuan Lingye pressed Xiao to his lips, and the melodious sound of the flute came out from the room.It's just that Liu Ci didn't think it was a piece of music.

After a while, I saw a cute yellow bird fluttering in from the window.

Xuanyuan Lingye gently held the bird in his hand, then came to the table, rolled up the paper, and tied it to the bird's leg.As soon as the hand was released, the bird flew out.Liu Ci ran to the window to have a look, but there was no sign of the bird.

"Flying so fast? Why haven't I seen you use it before?" Liu Ci looked back in surprise and asked Xuanyuan Lingye.

Xuanyuan Lingye smiled and said: "This bird is very rare, but its speed is unimaginable. But adult birds can't send letters. They can only carefully cultivate the captured chicks and feed them with two breeders since they were young." Blood, it can deliver a message for them. No matter where these two people are."

Thinking of such a cute little bird being fed with human blood, Liu Ci felt chills down his spine.

"That said, Si Ye will definitely receive the news