Run the rivers and lakes

The hall of Zuiyue Pavilion is very open and bright, with hanging curtains and lights everywhere, lined with exquisite and luxurious decoration.Before the performance time, people dressed in brocade and grosgrain, exchanged greetings, sat quietly, ate and drank tea, or were dressed by young girls from left to right, as chic as gods.

"That girl just now seemed very unhappy, did she force her smile?" Liu Yunsheng said suddenly.

"Unhappy?" Wei Shuxing shrugged his eyebrows, recalling the girl's smile just now, and said, "Sometimes, your views are quite different."

"No matter how she makes an expression, the inadvertent bitterness in her eyes can't deceive anyone, just like..." Liu Yunsheng touched his chin, glanced at Wei Shuxing, and lowered his hand, "Forget it, don't mention this , we still need to find Miss Gu."

Wei Shuxing looked around and said, "It's a magnificent place, but I don't know how to keep people in. Since they said that this building has 'many ways to play', there must be some mystery behind it."

"This building is so big, there are always dark corners." Liu Yunsheng found an empty table and sat down, and comforted him, "Miss Gu has martial arts, so there should be no major problems. Maybe with her lightness skills, It’s not necessarily true that he escaped long ago.”

Wei Shuxing nodded, and said: "If this is not an ordinary brothel, and it involves forces in the Jianghu, then we will have to force our way in."

Liu Yunsheng stroked the smooth back of the fan, and said in a low voice: "Anyway, I still want to see who is that 'Fang Yu Qing Fang girl'..."

Fang Yuqing is naturally not a god with many supernatural powers, but she is an ageless woman. Twenty years ago, her name was Wang Yuhen, she came to Jiangnan from the south, and was called a snake and scorpion by those who feared and hated her.And 20 years later, the snakes and scorpions disappeared from the rivers and lakes. Since then, Linzhou has gained a Zuiyue City and a Fang Yuqing.

Time never stops, but the face stays on her face.She is still the charming beauty when she was young, but she has restrained a lot of murderousness and sharpness, her eyes are still expressive and touching, and her smile has been packaged into a softness like water.

The night lights in the city first came on, drowning out the clear light of Yupo that Yingying cast down.Fang Yuqing wore a concubine-colored dark floral pleated satin dress, with a delicate bun tied up in her hair, and stood beside the hollow carved window on the upper level of Zuiyue Tower.

She was not in a happy mood,——before she took a look at the sheet music delivered, someone reported the arrival of a guest.

She hated receiving guests, especially people from far away from Wufangtang headquarters.

But fortunately, she has self-confidence, so she doesn't need to be afraid of anyone from that place, except Wang Xunfeng himself.

Fu Yuan and Qiu Xiaoba were led up the tall building from the back door.Before coming here, Qiu Xiaoba deliberately stopped at a place to shave off his scruffy beard, and the more he shaved, the happier he became. Seeing this situation, Fu Yuan had nothing to say, but wanted to laugh inexplicably.

"The two protectors came from a long way suddenly. We don't have time to prepare. It's really impolite. Please invite the two Haihan." Fang Yuqing sat on the head seat of the room, with a proper smile, and gestured for the servants to serve tea and snacks. He was stopped by Fu Yuan raising his hand.

Fu Yuan said: "Lord Fang, you don't have to be polite, we are here on business."

Fang Yuqing leaned on the armrest of the wooden chair with her sleeves folded, played with the bright red fingertips on a strand of black hair hanging down the side of her face, and cast a soft look in her eyes: "You're welcome, after all, this is the Wufangtang in name. Department, since the adults from the headquarters are here to play, we must treat you better."

Feeling the woman's disdain, Qiu Xiaoba felt uncomfortable for a moment: "In name?"

Fang Yuqing naturally ignored him, touched her face and continued to herself: "What do you two adults want to play? We have a lot of girls here, oops, I almost forgot about it..." She seemed to remember something important Regarding the matter, he looked at Fu Yuan with a pleasant smile, and his eyes were meaningful: "Master Right Protector's 'hobby' is so famous, I almost forgot. We have recently trained a few young men here,' Talent' is quite good, adults will be satisfied..."

Fu Yuan felt the sarcasm in her tone, but he really had nothing to say to fight back.He was thinking about how to mock her back, when he saw Qiu Xiaoba stretching his head curiously beside him, and asked in a naive tone like a stunned young man: "Talent? What talent? What's more to be a young lady?" Will there be any special ability?"

Qiu Xiaoba looked at her frankly and curiously, like a child seeking knowledge, which made Fang Yuqing suddenly at a loss as to how to answer.Although she naturally wouldn't feel ashamed or anything like that, there are some things that are more suitable for hiding.Qiu Xiaoba's innocence and magnanimity really surprised Fang Yuqing.She rubbed her chin and pondered for a moment, then hesitated and said, "Uh...here, Master Zuo Hufa, if you want to 'experience' this..."

"Okay!"

"Okay, you idiot!" Fu Yuan finally couldn't bear it anymore, and directly grabbed Qiu Xiaoba by the collar and shouted into his ear.

"You, are you sick! Fu Yuan!" Qiu Xiaoba suddenly hid aside, covered his ears in pain, and looked at him with angry eyes.

"You're fucking crazy, you're stupid!" Fu Yuan glanced at him in disgust, rubbed his forehead, looked up at Fang Yuqing, and said in a good-tempered voice, "Master Fang, we are indeed here on business. , don’t make fun of us anymore.”

"Okay, okay~" Fang Yuqing leaned his head to the side leisurely, put one leg on the other, and wobbled and raised his toes, "What's the matter, please tell the guardian~"

Naturally, Fu Yuan would not say anything about the skills and keys of returning to the old age, this is also what the hall master meant, and they are mobilizing troops in the arena to hunt down and kill Wei Shuxing and his party because of Wang Qingyue's death.Although this is not the only reason for chasing them, in the eyes of some people in Wufangtang, this reason is far enough. For example, Qiu Xiaoba, after knowing the news of Wang Qingyue's death, he was very sincere towards Wei Shuxing. killing intent.

"We are catching a murderer, he killed the second lady..." Fu Yuan still sighed silently while speaking.

Fang Yuqing was not very surprised when she heard that the incident in Jinling was not a small one, so she would naturally hear about it, but she didn't know the details.She stroked the hair on her shoulders, and said neither sad nor happy: "Is that little girl? That's really a pity... So, the guardian came to me, and the murderer also happened to escape?"

Fu Yuan replied: "That's right, so we hope Lord Fang can cooperate and assist us. After all, he has companions, not just one, and his martial arts are not low."

"How dare you kill Hall Master Wang's precious daughter, you are really a bold person, we will naturally help~" Fang Yuqing nodded towards Fu Yuan, and a faint smile appeared on the corners of her rouge-colored lips, " It’s just that I don’t know who the murderer is? Please let me know, Lord Protector.”

"Oh! Coincidentally, that person seems to be the son of your former enemy, this kills two birds with one stone for the other party!" Qiu Xiaoba appeared carelessly from behind Fu Yuan, showing a refreshing smile, and gave Fang Yuqing a big smile. thumb.

"Huh?" Fang Yuqing supported her head, and quickly ran through all her enemies in her mind, guessing with interest, but found that there were too many people, and she couldn't think of it for a while.

Fu Yuan didn't have the patience to wait for her to finish guessing, so he said directly: "His name is Wei Shuxing, he is the son of the Five Heroes of Jiangzuo, the Sword Guard of Sad Autumn."

Fang Yuqing was taken aback for a moment, and her raised toes were put back on the ground.She rested her fingertips on the table, looked thoughtfully at the ground on one side, and the smile on her face gradually disappeared.She suddenly remembered something, related to previous memories and recent news, the past was always turned into a few complex sarcasm mixed in the words with unclear emotions: "Wei Bumian... I remembered, he seems to be Already dead, what, did you do it?"

Fu Yuan shook his head lightly: "That's not true. If the hall master wanted Wei Bumian to die, he wouldn't have lived in Jinling for such a long time."

Fang Yuqing agrees with this point. She once went to Jinling to see Wei Bumian specially, but found that he was so poor that he was no longer what he used to be.With him like this, there should be no threat to Wufangtang.

Fu Yuan continued: "One matter is another matter, Wei Shuxing will not mention it for the time being, his son..."

"His son, father's debt? It's a good idea." Fang Yuqing understood what Fu Yuan wanted to say, and sneered, "What? Does Wufangtang want that child to die?"

"A life pays for a life, that's always been the case." Fu Yuan explained seriously with a blank face, "Also, Wei Shuxing should be in his 20s this year, not a child." After all, he himself is much older than Wei Shuxing How old is he? He doesn't want to be treated as a child by Fang Yuqing.

"It's really a good age." Fang Yuqing didn't pay attention to what Fu Yuan was thinking, just leaned against the edge of the table, touched the corner of his lips playfully, and said some seemingly insignificant words intentionally or unintentionally, with a light and careless tone Ding: "Jinling... I remember there are still people there, by the way, how is Gu Xueming recently...?"

"Huh?" Mentioning Gu Xueming, Fu Yuan suddenly sat up in a jolt.He didn't understand Fang Yuqing's purpose in mentioning others, which made him have to be vigilant.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, just ask..." Fang Yuqing waved his hand at people, and said with a smile, "So, we will definitely send more people to assist the two guardians in the near future. It's just that it's getting late today, and I'll wait I have to go to the lobby to entertain guests, why don't the two protectors go back to the nearby inn to rest? I'll ask someone to send you two off."

When Fu Yuan turned to leave, he suddenly realized a strong sense of disobedience.Rather, from the time he met Fang Yuqing, their conversations with Fang Yuqing, all the questions and answers made him feel that something was wrong, and he had an intuition that they had misunderstood something.And the source of the real awkwardness is——

"Oh, Master Fang is trying to hide something? Why did you drive us away so quickly?" Fu Yuan stopped suddenly, and Qiu Xiaoba almost bumped into him.

"Master Right Protector, what are you talking about?" Fang Yuqing stood up, still smiling.

Fu Yuan smiled on the surface: "Master Fang, why did you drive us away suddenly? Didn't you want us to stay and play before?"

Fang Yuqing's expression changed suddenly, but she still reluctantly replied: "It's not because I'm afraid that the two protectors are working too hard."

"It's not hard work, it's not hard work. In fact, I really want to see some 'talent'... Okay, don't look at me like that." Qiu Xiaoba felt uncomfortable being stared at by Fu Yuan, and shut his mouth obediently.

Fu Yuan looked at Fang Yuqing, and said: "Tonight, we don't want to leave for the time being, what do you think, Mr. Fang?"

Fang Yuqing's smile became a little stiff, and he hesitated: "If that's the case, then I'll find a few..."

"You don't need to trouble yourself." The smile on Fu Yuan's face remained undiminished, with a look of understanding and understanding, but his tone refused decisively, "We can walk around Zuiyue City by ourselves, and don't bother Mr. Fang anymore. "

Fang Yuqing nodded, but her smile was very inauthentic: "Naturally, we must respect the opinion of the guardian."

Fu Yuan thanked him and left the room.

"What do you mean by that?" Qiu Xiaoba caught up with Fu Yuan, grabbed his arm and asked.

Fu Yuan withdrew his hand with a look of disgust, and patiently explained as he walked: "From the time I talked about Wei Shuxing, I felt that something was wrong with Fang Yuqing. I think we may be wrong. Fang Yuqing doesn't hate Wei Bumian. .”

After hearing this, Qiu Xiaoba touched his chin with great emotion: "So, you mean, she might not want to kill Wei Shu, is that okay? But she said it herself."

"She will go to Wei Shuxing, but she won't kill him, and she won't hand him over to us." Fu Yuan analyzed the details in a low and cold tone, "There are so many kinds of 'debts' in this world. , who knows which kind she is referring to..."

Qiu Xiaoba sighed and shook his head: "It's so complicated, I don't understand."

Fu Yuan glanced at him: "What can your mind understand? I wonder if you bought this position by bribing Uncle Ye. What can you usually do, accompany the young hall master to catch crickets?"

"Wow! Do you know that you have slandered three people at the same time, and I will sue you, you know!" Qiu Xiaoba jumped up, angrily.

"Okay, okay, you're still young, it's not normal to understand this kind of thing." Fu Yuan was really a little afraid that he would sue, so he quickly compromised, "You look like 28 without shaving, and you look like sixteen when you shave. The more you live, the better. young."

"I'm twenty." Qiu Xiaoba corrected, and sarcastically said, "Not young, eight years younger than you. But you can still quarrel with me like this. It seems that your mentality is very young, Lord Right Guardian."

"Not young? In some respects, you are really innocent like a child." Fu Yuan sneered.

Qiu Xiaoba was puzzled: "What aspect?"

Fu Yuan waved his hand: "It's nothing, there is a chance that Brother Fu will take you as an adult."

Qiu Xiaoba got goosebumps all over his body when he said "Brother Fu" disgustingly. He felt that he would suffer a loss if he continued to talk, so he forced himself back to the topic: "So what is the purpose of our stay here?"

Fu Yuan looked around with a serious face, and whispered: "Although I can't find the reason, I have a feeling that Wei Shuxing is nearby."

Wei Shuxing is in Zuiyue City.

Fang Yuqing just received a report from the building not long ago, saying that one of the newly abducted girls had a special ability, and even escaped from the underground locked room in front of the guards.According to the guard's explanation, they felt a gust of wind blowing around them, and it took them a while to react.

Her guards are all Jiang Hu people with martial arts skills, which shows the identity of this girl.Among the people Fang Yuqing knew, only the surnamed Gu had such a quick movement.

Although Fang Yuqing thought so before, but after all, the Gu family is in Jinling, so she quickly rejected this idea.But when Fu Yuan mentioned that Wei Shuxing fled from Jinling to this place, the previous conjecture was suddenly confirmed.If something happens to Wei Bumian, how can Gu Xueming be safe?The five good brothers of them have always been on the same line.Thinking of this, Fang Yuqing couldn't help but sneer.

The girl who escaped from the locked room and is running around somewhere in Zuiyue City must be a member of the Gu family, and she is the companion who escaped from Jinling with Wei Shuxing.For some reason, she was abducted here by accident as an ordinary person, and Wei Shuxing must be wandering around here to find her at this time.

As for why Fang Yuqing thought that Wei Shuxing could find it here, because she didn't spend much effort to hide the bad things Zuiyue City did, and she could find them out with a little effort. ——But even if the government finds out, so what?The guests who like to come to her city to have fun are not all ordinary local government can do anything about it.Not long ago, a headhunter from the city sneaked in without knowing the heights and depths. She was injured by her men and thrown into a black prison in the basement to die. I don't know if he is still angry now.Naturally, the sightless oiran who led the arrester into the Zuiyue Tower was also brought into the dark room, and once he entered, he would naturally "serve" there until he died.

Zuiyue City is the place where she has more affection, she can do whatever she wants, the most urgent thing is to find Wei Shuxing.She knocked on the table, the door opened, and a tall middle-aged man in a black cloak came in and saluted her.

Fang Yuqing sat down leaning on the back cushion, unhurriedly opened the porcelain tea lid and took a sip: "There may be too many mice scurrying in the building tonight, Wu Zhen, the three of you have work to do tonight ...Catch the little girl from the Gu family who escaped, and try to kill her or play with you according to your mood. Then, drag the two guardians from the headquarters so that they don't get in my way..."

"So, you can't hurt those two people in the headquarters, can you?"

"Well..." Fang Yuqing closed his eyes slightly, and touched the edge of the tea with his slender fingers, "Try not to let them die, but if they are really difficult, you can be more aggressive. You can also do whatever you want with the organs in the city." use."

After Wu Zhen took the order to leave, Fang Yuqing lazily supported the chair and stood up, leaning his head against the window, slightly opened the green bead curtain with one finger, looked at the red light and green gauze outside, sneered, and hummed Muttering to himself: "Wei Bumian, Wei Bumian, look at how many sins you will bring out in your death..."

The hall of Zuiyue Tower is still full of people's voices. In the middle of the hall is a clean stage surrounded by lotus flowers, decorated with small and exquisite flower-sprinkling fountains.

And Wei Shuxing was holding the sword, sitting straight at the edge of the wooden table, with his eyes slightly closed, as quiet as a solitary pine on the mountain, forming a strong abruptness with the surrounding smoke willows and red flowers.Liu Yunsheng sometimes wonders why Wei Shuxing, a person who grew up in a bustling city, has a lonely and indifferent sense of alienation, as if his eyebrows have been bitten by ice, snow and cold wind.And obviously he was the one who grew up in the mountains and was accompanied by white clouds and snow.

"You really don't look so approachable when you're not talking." Liu Yunsheng smiled.

Wei Shuxing lowered his eyelids and said, "Really?"

Liu Yunsheng tapped the table lightly with his fan, and said with hatred: "Look at you, you don't know how to chat at all. If you say 'really?', I can't continue chatting with you."

Wei Shuxing looked at him, thought for a while, and asked, "Then what should I say?"

"You look for words in other people's words that you can continue to explore. For example, if I say, you are not approachable when you are not speaking, you can ask, 'What about when I am speaking?', so that we can continue talking. " Liu Yunsheng taught carefully.

Wei Shuxing nodded, and said, "What about when I talk, can you be more kind?"

"No." Liu Yunsheng shook his head.

Wei Shuxing: "..."

Liu Yunsheng couldn't help laughing when he saw Wei Shuxing's expressionless and embarrassed face.Just as he was about to apologize, there was a burst of cheers mixed with applause in the hall, and the fountain beside the stage rose high, spraying water mixed with the fragrance of lotus.

In the middle of the stage, a voluptuous woman is standing in the center with a zither, wearing a gauze and floating against the water.

Fang Yuqing's beautiful eyes were a little careless, they were slightly closed and slightly opened.The clothes on her neck and shoulders were slightly opened, like waterfalls of blue silk flowing down her white shoulders and arms.In the soft lighting of the hall, her beauty is like a little emerald pearl that shatters the light of the sky, and it is dotted on the stage of Zhuobi Liuxiang.Immediately, she sat down cross-legged, touching the clear and round strings with her beautiful fingers, the strings flicked, and the crisp timbre flowed out.Wei Shuxing looked up at the stage, and happened to meet her gaze.

For some reason, Wei Shuxing's heart trembled inexplicably.

Smoke from nowhere filled the hall, and under the swaying gauze curtain, the hall instantly lingered like a fairy hall, thick and invisible.And the sound of the piano is still going on, weeping and complaining like the words of the fairy with emotion, and with the rise of the fairy mist, it spreads and turns, and is slowly pushed to the climax of the trembling tone.Wei Shuxing stared at the stage like a man in a daze, his tense nerves trembled back and forth along with the strings of the piano, feeling that it would break at any moment due to lack of strength.

It seems that after a long time, the mountains and rivers are long, and the repertoire finally stops abruptly.The moment Wei Yin withdrew his hand, he plucked the strings and made a final sound and returned to the position. Wei Shuxing rang in his head, and then suddenly fell into darkness and silence.

Continuous applause broke out in the hall, and it took a long time for the smoke to slowly dissipate, and at this time the performers on the stage had disappeared.Liu Yunsheng felt that the performance and the smoke were both inexplicable. He felt that although the sound of the piano was nice, it was not worth the ticket price to enter the Zuiyue Tower, but why there were so many people cheering, and they looked very happy. No, they didn't come to listen to the piano music, but did they have other things worth the fare to enjoy?

After thinking about it, Liu Yunsheng wanted to ask Wei Shuxing, but when he looked back, he was nowhere to be found.

"Brother Wei?"

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Fu Yuan: I'll give you another nickname, "Stupid" Qiu Xiaoba

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