dark fragrance of eternal night

Everyone's eyes widened and they looked at Chang Huan in unison.

"Suiji!" Zhao Chen narrowed his eyes.

"Chang Huan!" Zhao Fang called him by his real name.

"How can there be such a coincidence, you have not yet arrived in Yongye, and you will meet that legendary character..."

Chang Huan's face froze, and then he nodded and said, "It's indeed a bit of a coincidence." Then he told the story of how he met Yan Shanyue, and naturally omitted the part where he was treated lightly by Yan Shanyue. carry.

It is really a big deal that the leader of the Haoqi League was ambushed and attacked.In recent years, due to the balance between the Haoqi League, the fights and turmoil in the martial arts have decreased a lot, and the two ways of black and white are still relatively peaceful.

Although Haoqi League can't destroy Blood Moon, once it is found out who is Blood Moon's employer, Haoqi League will punish him severely, so it can be regarded as blocking a lot of blood moon's money.

For those who have the ability and means to ambush the leader of the Haoqi League, the biggest suspect is Blood Moon.But once the leader of the Haoqi League dies, the martial arts world will be in chaos, and all old and new hatreds will be blamed on Xueyue. What benefits can it gain? !

"If Blood Moon did it, it would be impossible to arrange only two people to ambush the leader of the Haoqi League. They have always been rigorous in their work and rarely miss." Chang Huan thought for a while and said, "Those two killers are powerful, but From the perspective of skill, he is not a master. It does not seem to be the style of Blood Moon."

"Dynamite..." Zhao Fang's eyes turned cold, "Their methods are surprisingly similar."

Yin Ziruo knew that he remembered the explosion in the Anping government office, so he reached out and took Zhao Fang's hand.In that explosion, many of Zhao Fang's personal guards were damaged. Those were his subordinates who had followed him for many years. Zhao Fang was distressed and angry. trail of the month.

"It's okay even if it wasn't done by Blood Moon," Zhao Chen waved his hand, "Haoqi League and Xueyue have been fighting for several years, and both black and white have deep forces, if we can use the power of Haoqi League to eradicate blood The moon must be of great benefit." Zhao Chen returned the jade tablet to Chang Huan's hand and said, "Can you find him again?"

Chang Huan gave a jolt, and those deep, soul-piercing eyes flashed across his mind, passing through his body like a cluster of fire.

"Suiji?"

Chang Huan was startled and forced out a smile: "This subordinate will try his best."

After Chang Huan walked out of the room, Yin Ziruo tugged at Zhao Fang's sleeve and said, "Do you think Sui Ji seems a little weird?"

Zhao Fang raised his eyebrows: "There's nothing strange, it's just that the mask has been removed."

Zhao Chen leaned on the back of the chair and said leisurely: "Being able to break the shadow of childhood, no longer hide himself, learn to be frank and face-to-face, these changes may not be a bad thing for him. I'm just curious, what exactly did that person do? What, can smash the hard shell that he has been confined to for more than ten years... Hehe, I'm really curious!"

Zhao Fang frowned, dissatisfied with his father's way of speaking.

Sui Ji is his brother who has been through life and death with him, not a toy for him to adjust his mood.

Zhao Chen looked at him, smiled and said nothing.

Chang Huan only stayed in Yongye City for one night. On the second day, he selected two shadow guards to exchange for Jiaying and Yiying in the border town. After that, he packed up and rode down the mountain to Anping.

Yin Ziruo had already been removed from the official register, and the current prefect of Anping was transferred from elsewhere.Chang Huan made a special detour when he passed the Anping government office.Because many people died in the original mansion, Mr. Feng Shui said it was unlucky, so he dug the original site into a big pond, and rebuilt the mansion by digging the ground in front of the pond.

The newly built government office is much more majestic than before, with a tall gate, a brand-new grievance drum and tall and mighty stone lions standing quietly.This new yamen was rebuilt with money from Eternal Night City, and even the destroyed houses and shops on the street also received money from Eternal Night City for the overhaul, so no matter whether it is an official or a citizen, everyone praises Eternal Night City. add.

Chang Huan took a jug of wine and walked around to the backyard of the government office.In the pond behind the courtyard, green tea trays have covered half of the pond surface, and a few flower buds stick out of the water, standing gracefully in the wind.When the new Yamen was built, Chang Huan was leading troops in Xixia and could not return.

"I didn't expect to come here again, the lotus leaves here are so big." Chang Huan murmured to himself, pouring the wine slowly into the pool, "If you are still alive, you can enter Xixia with us...not in On the battlefield, you were shrouded in horse leather, but you were killed here, and you must feel very wronged. You followed Lord Hou through life and death, and fought on the battlefield, and he treated you all like brothers. If you have knowledge, bless us to find those who killed you as soon as possible. murderer, avenge you."

As he spoke, he threw the jug into the pool, clasped his hands together, and prayed silently.

Leading the horse out of Anping Mansion, Chang Huan was a little hesitant. The world is so big, where is he going to find Haoqimeng?Chang Huan thought for a long time at Shili Pavilion outside Anping City, then let go of the reins, patted the dark cloud and said, "Old man, where do you think we are going?"

Wu Yunchang hissed and pawed at the east.

"But we met people in the west," Chang Huan sat on the edge of the pavilion, smiling at Wu Yun with his chin in his hands, "but it's true, they won't always stay there waiting for us to send them to your door, right? "

My heart skipped a beat, and I remembered being pushed down on the bed by Yan Shanyue.It was as if there was a mouse in my heart, scratching my heart and scratching my liver.Chang Huan's face became hot, and he walked out of the pavilion, "Then go east and watch."

Wu Yun's big dark eyes looked at Chang Huan and neighed softly.

"I see." Chang Huan smiled wryly, "I should bring some brothers, but..." But what?He didn't know either.He and Yan Shanyue only met once, and they didn't speak a few words together, but it seemed like they were hiding some secret, they didn't want to be known, they were afraid of being known.

"I'm probably not cleared of the lingering poison, and people have become strange." Chang Huan sighed silently, got on his horse, and galloped eastward.

After rushing for a day and a night, it was nearly noon when Chang Huan arrived at Changnan Mansion.The people and horses were a little tired, and Chang Huan led Wu Yun to the largest inn in the city.Handing the reins to the inn clerk to feed, Chang Huan went to the counter to go to the room.The owner of the store is a young man in his 20s. When he saw Chang Huan, the brush in his hand fell on the account book in shock.

Chang Huan frowned, didn't say anything, just put Dingyin down and went upstairs by himself.Some of the guests who were drinking and eating downstairs saw him, and they also craned their necks, staring at him all the way and disappearing upstairs.

Seeing Xiao Er, he leaned over to the boss and asked, "What's the matter, boss? Does the guest have any problems?"

The shop owner tidied up the dirty account books and shook his head: "How can someone in this world really look like that?"

"What is it like?"

"The face is as white as powder, the nose is high, the eye sockets are sunken, and the eyeballs are not black."

"Hey, it looks like this, isn't that a monster?!" Xiao Er jumped up with a frightened expression on his face.

"It's not..." The boss glanced upstairs, with a complicated expression, "These facial features really don't look like us, but...Don't tell me, that appearance is really good-looking..."

"Don't lie to me, high nose, sunken eyes, does this look good?" Xiao Er pouted, "What about you?"

The shop owner got a little angry, and pushed Xiaoer away: "If you don't believe me, let me down, hurry up and go to work!"

A customer who was drinking saw Xiao Er coming from the shop owner, beckoned him over, and said, "Where did that guy come from just now? What's his name?"

Xiao Er looked at them in surprise and said, "How would I know that?"

The guest stuffed him with a piece of silver: "Inquire about it."

The little one weighed the money, and immediately smiled: "Okay, the little one will inquire about it later!"

Chang Huan took off his coat and washed his face in the basin, when he heard two knocks from outside, Xiao Er came in with a food plate.

"Guest officer, let me put a pot of good tea and three plates of snacks from the shop on the table for you first?"

Chang Huan nodded, reached out and touched some money and threw it to Xiaoer as a reward.

The little girl bowed down and thanked him with a smile, poured tea for him attentively, and peeked at him while pouring.Without paying attention, he poured the tea on the table, and it flowed all over the table.

The little girl came back to her senses, quickly wiped it again and again with a rag, and then closed the door after apologizing.

Rushing down the stairs, wandering over to the owner of the store in a daze, holding on to the table for a long time, unable to relax.

The boss looked up at him, curled his lips in disdain: "Look at your idea."

It took a long time for Xiaoer to calm down, and said to the boss: "You are so beautiful. She has a high nose and deep eyes, but why does she look so beautiful? She is beautiful, and she doesn't look like a girl at all. It's amazing."

The shop owner blinked, and whispered to him: "Those people seem to have no good intentions for this customer, please watch carefully, don't make trouble in our shop!"

Xiao Er touched the broken silver in his pocket and grinned.

At night, Chang Huan was falling asleep when he suddenly heard soft footsteps outside.Frowning, he dragged Youquan out from under the pillow and put it by his hand.

The footsteps were a bit messy, and it sounded like three people.But as soon as they stopped in front of Chang Huan's door, they heard a thud, and then Xiaoer's voice sounded brightly outside the door.

"My lords, I went wrong. Where is your house?"

A few people outside the door seemed to curse secretly, and left in a hurry.

Chang Huan breathed a sigh of relief, turned over and continued to sleep.

Not half an hour later, there was another sound from the roof.Chang Huan frowned, sighed, and grabbed Youquan in his hands.

"Ah, that wild cat!" Outside the window, the yawning Xiao Er dragged a stick and made a loud noise, pointing at the roof and yelling, "I put food bowls outside to feed you every day, and you still want to come here!" Playing wild food, be careful that I will break your thief cat's leg with a stick!"

The sound on the roof suddenly disappeared.Chang Huan was slightly startled, she simply sat up, rubbed against the window, and opened the window a little.The moon is as cool as water, flowing in the courtyard of the small courtyard. The young boy I saw during the day was only wearing a jacket, carrying a fire stick, sitting on the railing of the well in the courtyard and yawning.

"Stinky boy, I'm getting impatient." A low voice cursed from the roof, "I even gave him money during the day, but at night I came here to ruin my good deeds."

"Brother, this kid is also quite handsome, or else we can catch him and play with him."

"Slick, handsome and a fart, teach him a lesson, so that bad things don't happen again later."

Chang Huan stared at the young man downstairs and suddenly laughed.

With the sound of breaking wind, a black dart was shot down from the roof, the little boy waved his stick casually, and the dart landed on the ground with a jingling sound.

There were two more darts on the roof, and Xiao Er waved it again, making two jingle sounds.

"Grandma, there are so many mosquitoes here." The second child seemed to have seen nothing, and scratched his legs with a stick.

The people on the roof were silent for a while, and left quietly.

Xiao Er looked up at Chang Huan's room unintentionally, smiled lightly, and went back to the downstairs room to sleep with the stick on his shoulder.

Chang Huan closed the window and sat back on the bed, completely drowsy.

In the morning, Chang Huan went downstairs, only to see the young boss sitting behind the counter, figuring out his abacus, and the waiter from last night was wearing a white rag to read the account books beside the boss.

Seeing Chang Huan coming down, the boss smiled lightly, nodded and said, "Hey, get up, are you going to pay the bill and get on the road?"

Chang Huan nodded.

The waiter leaned against the table, grinning with white teeth bared: "Be careful on the road, guest officer, there are wolves on the road recently, so it's not very peaceful."

Chang Huan smiled at him: "Thank you, brother."

Seeing him smile, Xiao Er blushed and turned aside to wipe the table.

"I can't use the money." The boss was shocked when he saw Chang Huan throwing him a whole ingot, "It hasn't opened yet in the morning, so I don't have so much money to look for."

"You don't need to look for it, Boss." Chang Huan pointed to Xiao Er, who was cleaning the table while humming a little song, and said, "Give him the ones that are too much. If you catch mosquitos for me yesterday, you will be rewarded."

The little one immediately rushed back to the stage, and beat Chang Huan's back like a dog's leg: "You are too generous, little one, thank you very much!"

Chang Huan looked at these two people, took out the jade token of Haoqi League from his bosom, and put it on the table.

The owner of the shop shook his hands when he was planning, and Xiao Er beat his hands on his back, and the two of them stared straight at the piece of jade.

Seeing this, Chang Huan held the jade badge in his hand and pointed it under the boss's nose: "Boss, do you know where I can go to find the owner of this thing?"

The boss gave Xiaoer a sideways look, lowered his head and continued to make plans: "I'm just an inn owner, who knows about this. But you better keep this thing away, sir. If something so valuable is exposed, people will stare at it." Up."

Chang Huan smiled when he heard the words, took the jade card back into his arms and said: "I was also in a hurry and went to the doctor because I didn't know people in the Jianghu, thinking that there were many people coming and going in the inn, maybe the boss had some news, but it was me. You're being reckless." Saying that, he pulled the horse and said goodbye to go out.

Nothing happened to the left and right, and Changnan Mansion hadn't been to Changnan Mansion for a long time, so Chang Huan led the horse and wandered around. It was not until the afternoon that he bought some dry food and left Dongcheng.

Xinma walked to a forest four or five miles outside the city. The loess on the ground collapsed, and a tripping rope bounced off the road. The dark clouds came from the battlefield. step.

Before the horse came to a complete stop, Chang Huan jumped up from the saddle, wrapped the long sword and scabbard around the rope, and with a force, pulled the rope back violently.I saw two big men rolling out from both sides of the road.

"Who is it?" Chang Huan threw the long rope aside, stood there frowning coldly, and the murderous aura on his body made the two big men feel a little apprehensive.

"What are you afraid of!" Another man came out from the back of the forest, waving a folding fan, squinting his eyes and walking forward, "He's alone, we three."

Upon hearing this voice, Chang Huan immediately remembered that these three were the ones who wanted to attack him last night.

"It turned out to be several Liang Shangjuns." Chang Huan hooked the corner of his mouth and withdrew his sword, "You guys have been with me since yesterday, I don't know what's important to find next?"

The boss waved his fan and moved forward, his eyes looked up and down, and he said, "It was just a glimpse yesterday, it was amazing, but I didn't expect to see it so closely, it is even more wonderful. Sir, I am from the short sword sect." Young sect master, there are thousands of disciples in the sect, and the family property is countless, little brother, I really like you, I want to take you home, as my own."

Chang Huan was taken aback for a moment. He thought that these three were robbers cutting the trail, but he didn't expect that they were the ones who fell in love with him. It was people who were strong, not money.Chang Huan looked around, looked suspiciously at this guy with a wicked smile on his face, thinking he had heard it wrong.

"Little brother, you go with me honestly, and I will love you very much."

Seeing that Chang Huan was bewildered and silent, the man thought he was hesitating and afraid, so he took a step forward and said harsh words, "If you are not honest, I will tie you up and make you suffer a lot. At that time, you will not be able to feel sorry for yourself." , if you fuck up your body, you won't even regret it!"

He was smiling, when suddenly his stomach hurt, and he saw himself floating up and flying in mid-air.

"Brother!" The other two men rushed back to pick it up, but because of the force of the attack, the three of them fell into a ball.

Chang Huan's kick moved the man's internal organs, and he rolled on the ground with his stomach in his arms, howling like a pig being killed.Chang Huan glanced at it, snorted coldly, and took a few steps forward.

Although Chang Huan had a beautiful appearance, her face was covered with frost, and when her murderous aura came up, she looked like a Shura, making her hands and feet feel cold.When the two men saw him approaching, they were so frightened that they set up the young sect master and backed away.

"Looking for death." Chang Huan spat out two words, stretched out his hand and drew out his sword.

The sword energy was like ice, and the white light was dazzling. The two immediately knelt down, kowtowed and said: "Hero, spare your life, spare your life! We are blind and offended the hero. You have a large number of people, please be merciful!"

Chang Huan raised his eyebrows, and said coldly: "Looking at your behavior, I don't know how many people you have harmed. Since I came to the door today, I will help people get rid of your troubles!"

Just as he was about to raise his sword, there was a sound of horse hooves in his ears. A horse team of more than 20 people, including monks and laymen, men and women, came rushing along the official road. Seeing Chang Huan blocking the road with a sword, they all reined in their horses.

Chang Huan hesitated for a moment, killing people in the street is always inappropriate, so he turned slightly to make way.

Seeing someone coming, those two people immediately called for help.One of the horsemen let out a "huh" and jumped off the horse and said, "Aren't you from the Short Sword Sect? Why are you here?"

When the two saw them, they immediately shouted: "Third Master, Third Master, our young sect master has been beaten, and he is going to be killed!" As they spoke, they pointed at Chang Huan, "Just that kid, we just followed him If he asks for directions, he will turn his face and try to kill someone, third master, you have to be the master for us!"

Everyone looked at Chang Huan together, seeing that it was a handsome young man, they all turned their heads to look at the young sect master of the Dagger Sect with a blue face and blood on his lips. He wanted to flirt with someone because he was beautiful, but he was beaten instead.

But the third master didn't care about this, he drew his sword and pointed at Chang Huan and scolded: "Where did you come from, you wild boy, you dare to beat even the young master of the Short Sword Sect, let alone hurting people, but you still dare to kill me!" If you want to commit a murder, you simply don’t pay attention to the short knife gate, and see how grandpa will teach you!”

Chang Huan sneered and glanced at everyone: "It turns out that people in the Jianghu are so unreasonable. If an ordinary person is bullied by this guy today, wouldn't he be regarded as arrogant?"

The third master glared, and slashed down with a knife: "Don't talk nonsense, boy, you look so weird, you look like a goblin, you must not be of my race, I don't know where you came from, I will chop you up first!"

Chang Huan's side moved towards the blade, murderous intent was already in his eyes.

Since childhood, he was excluded by others because of his looks, and after being picked up by Zhao Chen, he specially made a mask to hide his looks, but he just didn't want to be called a foreigner.Now this third master is being unreasonable, he only wants to protect his shortcomings, and pokes at his heartache every sentence, how can he bear it any longer.

"Third brother, be careful!" Seeing Chang Huan's sword pointing, the leader of the old Taoist said something bad in his heart, he had already flew out, and blocked Chang Huan's weapon with his sword.If it weren't for the old Taoist priest's attack, Chang Huan's sword had already pierced the third master's throat.

The third master saw that he almost died without two moves under Chang Huan's hands. He broke out in a cold sweat early on, and he didn't dare to take it seriously anymore, so he called his friends to surround Chang Huan together.

The old man has white beard and hair, and a benevolent face. He looked Chang Huan up and down, and said in a harmonious voice: "The young man is good at kung fu. He is so young, but his inner strength is so deep. It is rare for the younger generation in the world to have such achievements. Excuse me, respectful teacher." Who is it?"

Chang Huan didn't answer, just looked at the third master who was still in shock, his eyes were full of hostility.

"Don't ask, Daoist Xiao. This kid is full of evil spirits, and he is definitely not from a righteous way!" Several people who had a good personal relationship with the third master said together, "And look at his eyes, he has definitely killed many people..."

Chang Huan laughed proudly and said: "I have killed [-] people if not [-]. If you want to do it, do it together, I'm afraid you will fail!"

The old Taoist gasped. It is not uncommon for him to have seen such an arrogant person before, but none of them could match Chang Huan's aura. Standing alone in the siege, his expression was unmoved, and he even felt more excited , this kind of feeling is not like a martial arts junior, but like a general who fights in the battlefield.

Before he could speak, a few people couldn't hold back, and greeted Chang Huan with their swords.

The old man looked closely at Chang Huan's moves, he was flexible, majestic, each move was powerful, and he couldn't tell which school or school it was.Those few people can be regarded as well-known masters in the Jianghu, and they joined hands, but they didn't get any benefits at all.

"Wait, stop first!" The old Taoist shouted to stop, but the few people were already ready to kill and couldn't hold back their moves.

Just as the fight was inextricable, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded in the forest, and the sound went straight into the sky, startling the birds in the forest to flop around.Everyone was shocked when they heard the sound, and immediately withdrew their moves and retreated to the side.

However, Chang Huan's eyes were red with murder, and his sword was like a flowing cloud, and he went straight to the eyes of the person in front of him.The man couldn't dodge in time, he was about to be stabbed, he rolled on the spot in a hurry, covered his head and body with loess before he dodged in embarrassment.

"Boy, don't be arrogant!" The man had never suffered such a loss before, and he was so angry that he cursed, "If you go crazy again, we will not be polite! Don't think that you alone can fight against five of us, and there are more than a dozen of us behind us!" My companion, if you want to die, I will let you pay immediately!"

As soon as the words fell, a voice came from mid-air: "I'm so good at being the Twelve Family of Hongmen. I used to bully the weak with the more bullying the less. I really gave the Central Plains martial arts a lot of face!"

There was no one in sight, but the voice of that person seemed to be right next to their ears. Everyone turned pale and retreated silently.

Chang Huan's heart trembled when he heard the voice, and a half-smile appeared on his face.

I saw the ringing of bells in the forest, four young women dressed in red, galloped out of the forest on horseback, followed by a man in white clothes, with black hair and a golden crown.

When the old Taoist saw him, he hurriedly took two steps forward, bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, how did you get here? If I had known earlier, we would have come to pay homage first."

Yan Shanyue looked past the crowd, looked directly at Chang Huan who was standing with a sword, and said softly: "General Chang, I haven't seen you for a few days, is your injury better?"

Chang Huan raised his eyes to look at him, and replied calmly: "I am concerned about the leader Lao Yan. She is almost fine, but I just exerted some strength, and the wound may be open. I will need to ask the leader for some wound medicine."

Yan Shanyue's eyes turned cold, she looked at the old Taoist and said, "You guys are so embarrassed, so many people besieged an injured person, and the news got out, do your twelve families still have the face to mess around in the rivers and lakes?"

The old man was dripping with cold sweat, and repeatedly confessed: "We really didn't know that this young man was an old acquaintance of the leader, so reckless, too reckless!"

"Reckless?" Yan Shanyue sneered, and cast her eyes on Chang Huan, "He is not a young hero. He is the general of Xiaoqi who protected the western border of our Celestial Dynasty and killed countless Xixia enemies, and the leader of Yanyun Thirteen Cavalry. If anything happens to him, the first one who can't spare you is General Xuanwei. The 40 Divine Strategy army will even crush your twelve families in a row."