"Sir, what's going on?" The waiter swallowed hard.
"It's very boring." Xuanyuan Xuanyu put his chin in his hand and played with the tea cup in his hand with a bored look on his face.
"Guest, you can find some entertainment." The waiter wished that these two gods would leave the inn and go wandering around earlier, so that he would not be worried.
"Oh? For fun?" A glint flashed in Xuanyuan Xuanyu's eyes, "How about beating someone up?"
"Ah?" The waiter was flustered for a while. "This..." These days, since the border war, many strange and strange foreigners have come to this small county closest to Jiachuan Pass.
Xuanyuan Xuanyu put down the tea cup in his hand and stood up. His lean body had excellent proportions and exuded a compelling kingly aura.
The waiter raised his head and could barely catch his gaze - deep and sharp. What happened today? I just picked up a handsome young man, and now there is another intimidating and handsome eccentric young man. This shop is small.
There are no less than this many Bodhisattvas.
"Young Master!" Mu Mu on the side finally spoke, just when Xuanyuan Xuanyu's big palm was about to kill the "fly" in front of him.
"Huh?" Xuanyuan Xuanyu did not stop.
"Young Master, please spare him!" Mu Mu just felt strange that the Young Master, who never made things difficult for his servants, was so unusual today.
"Xiaoer——" A clear voice came from outside the door, which made people couldn't help but imagine what kind of talent is worthy of such a beautiful voice.
"Hey - here it comes!" The waiter woke up from the shock and took this opportunity to run out of the room.
"Zuo Gong, are you wondering why I made things difficult for the waiter just now?" Xuanyuan Xuanyu said with a faint smile.
"Zuo Gong really doesn't understand." Mu Mu replied honestly.
"With your martial arts skills, how many people did you hear coming upstairs just now?" Xuanyuan Xuanyu asked.
"one person."
"Then how do you explain that crisp sound just now?" Xuanyuan Xuanyu asked. In fact, he had been on the battlefield for several years, and he only heard some flaws in her subtle breathing.
"Young Master——" Zuo Gong's face was filled with murderous intent. This was the expression he used when facing an enemy.
Xuanyuan Xuanyu gently pressed Zuo Gong's hand on the sword on his waist and said slowly: "I want to see who can touch me."
"Thank you, sir!" The waiter ran up to me anxiously and said with great gratitude.
"Lead the way." Xixue didn't want to say anything. Why bother to embarrass an ordinary person? Maybe the young master is right - she has never put away her pity. Young master, young master...
"Young master, you are tired from the journey. Do you need some food and wine? I will prepare it right away and bring it to the guest." The waiter was obviously more attentive to her than before.
Xi Xue just raised the corners of her mouth slightly and said, "Okay."
The waiter stood there blankly. How could there be such a handsome young man in the world? A half-smile but not a smile could be so touching.
"Xiaoer——" She was a little angry.
"Oh, okay, right away. Wait a moment, sir." He turned and left, his eyes secretly glancing in that direction from time to time.
"Bang bang bang——"
"Come in!" she called.
"Sir, your food and drinks are here, please use them." The voice was low, not like the naive voice of the waiter just now.
Xixue turned to the waiter who came in suspiciously and said, "Where was the waiter just now?"
"He, he went to bed." The voice was slightly panicked.
She suddenly pulled away his big hand holding the porcelain plate, and sure enough - there was a thick layer of calluses on the knife edge of his right hand - caused by long-term sword practice! "Who are you?"
"Hmph - the person who wants your life!" He immediately threw off the porcelain plate in his hand, pulled out a sharp dagger from under the plate, and stabbed her heart straight.
Xi Xue slightly moved her left shoulder and shouted: "What about the waiter?"
"Hmph - he went ahead and is waiting for you on the Naihe Bridge." His ferocious face looked even more disgusting under the candlelight, and he didn't even spare an unarmed ordinary person.
I thought about the person who had a naive expression just now, but turned into a cold corpse in the blink of an eye. Although she did not kill Boren, Boren died because of her, my heart tightened, and the gloom in his eyes became more intense.
"Then you go and accompany him!" Her anger made her lose her patience, and she even dangerously forgot to draw her sword. She stretched out two fingers and took it directly to his throat. With a muffled sound, she heard the throat bones being crushed.
Voice - In fact, if his martial arts skills were better, and she acted regardless of her own danger, she would most likely be the one injured. Unfortunately, the dead will not have another chance.
Xi Xue leaned down and found a secret letter on his body - it seems that Pang Jian is indeed very fast! Brother, you have to be careful, there is a traitor in the No. 1 building in the world.
She didn't do what he thought, packed up her baggage, and drove all night to leave Fengxian County. It seemed that no matter what I did, the danger existed, so it was better to leave as soon as possible. If I left late, I'm afraid the prince would be in danger.
Finally, before dawn, they arrived outside the city of Jiachuan Pass. Xi Xue simply drank a bowl of soy milk from an old man's soy milk stall on the roadside, prepared his horses, and planned to continue into the city. This place was still a few meters away from the military camp.
daily distance.
Suddenly, a dozen masked men appeared in the alleys of the street. The pedestrians on the street got into a mess and ran to avoid it. It seemed that they really couldn't wait any longer and wanted to kill people during the day to avoid future troubles. She
She reined in the reins and glanced at them coldly. In an instant, the arrows and crossbows in the hands of the men in black were fired at her. She put her foot on the saddle without hesitation, jumped off the horse, and turned over - shocked - why
Is she so dizzy? Unsteady, she puts one hand on the ground and barely raises her head. No - is she poisoned?
"What, do you feel dizzy? Do your limbs feel weaker and weaker?" The man in black who took the lead had an evil smile on his face.
"You guys -" she recalled the journey before entering Jiachuan in annoyance, "it's that bowl of soy milk!" Although she didn't know how they poisoned it, because she had used a silver needle to detect it before, and there was no poison, but except for the bowl of soy milk,
, she really couldn't think of any link that went wrong.
"That bowl of soy milk is not poisonous, but the spoon that the old man handed you was laced with a powerful sweat-inducing drug." The man in black smiled consciously and wisely. "Follow us obediently!"
"I must be worth a lot of money, right?" Her consciousness began to become increasingly blurry.
The man in black probably didn't expect that she could be so calm at this time: "Five thousand silver for the living, two thousand for the dead."
"Then, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you -" Xi Xue forced herself to stand up, and with extremely fast movements, she suddenly picked up several silver needles and stabbed her left leg violently, blood gurgling out, she slightly frowned, delicate
She bit her lip, leaving traces of blood, and the pain made her clearer.
The man in black was obviously shocked by her actions, and actually stood in a daze without moving forward.
(At this time, there were still two people hiding in the darkness. Zuo Gong hesitated: "Master, he seems to be dying. Should we..."
"He is much stronger than you think. This little difficulty can't stop him!" Although Xuanyuan Xuanyu said this, he couldn't help being shocked by him in his heart.)
"Suffer death!" The man in black was a little timid. He felt that the petite body in front of him was not simple, so he had to fight quickly. With a wave of one hand, all the men in black were at war with each other and were angry.
Like a snow stick, she stood up and leaned on her long sword, facing them. The Piao Xue Sword was unsheathed and swung across the sky. In just one turn, several men in black fell down. She staggered and leaned on the sword to stand firm again, "There are still people who want to
Want to try my sword?"
"Brothers, come on, she has been poisoned and can't hold on much longer. Come on together!" The man in black ordered calmly, but he ran behind everyone.
A group of guys who don’t know how to live or die——
Xi Xue stabbed several silver needles hard into her right leg, struggled to stand up, and stood up with the sword in hand. When the sword edge touched the flesh and blood, she closed her eyes - the color of the blood was too dazzling.
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After a while, there was no opponent who could match her. She smiled miserably, "Shouldn't you give an explanation to so many dead bodies?"
The leading man in black showed a vulgar expression, as if he was planning to make a desperate move: "Since you are not planning to let me go, then I will kill you!" He pretended to draw a knife, but suddenly took out a concealed weapon from behind and threw it at her without warning.
She didn't even have time to think about it. The pain in her body hit her in waves. Was she really going to die here?
("Be careful——" Xuanyuan Xuanyu's worry came to his mind and he couldn't hold it back any longer.)
—— Bang, the hidden weapon was knocked back by a long sword. The person in gray clothes flew down from the attic opposite, gently held her waist with one hand, and secretly exerted force with his left palm. The flying sword that originally hit the hidden weapon suddenly changed.
Direction, returning to his hand as he pleased, he took her into his arms, flew forward, drew the sword very quickly, and came back
Before he could see how he drew his sword, the man in black only felt a coldness on his neck. He stretched out his hand and wiped it lightly - a trace of bright red. The man in black's eyes suddenly became extremely panicked. Finally, he stared in disbelief and slowly fell to the ground.
In front of them, "Please - don't hurt my family!" These were his last words before his death.
"This is not something I can decide." The man in gray looked at the man in black expressionlessly. Xi Xue thought that if he was still alive, what he feared the most was not death, but provoking the Feng Shang Shining from Prince Liuqing's Palace.
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"Like snow... Like snow..." He shook her shoulders gently, changing his death-like expression just now. At this moment, he couldn't hide the anxious look on his face at all.
Xi Xue opened her eyes slightly and said, "Jing Feng——" She thought she had made a mistake. Shouldn't he be by the young master's side now? What would the young master do if he left? Who would protect the young master? The young master knew that she acted without authorization.
Already?
"Don't worry, you are safe." Jingfeng has always been like a big brother.
She finally fell into a deep sleep.
Seeing the highly skilled man holding the mysterious young master, he jumped onto his horse and left. Xuanyuan Xuanyu breathed a sigh of relief, and then appeared in front of a pile of corpses.
Zuo Gong carefully inspected the fatal wound of the deceased, and after a long time he said: "Master, I can't tell which school of swordsmanship Shi has, but judging from the look of the man in black who took the lead, he must have known that he had offended
If you offend someone who shouldn't be offended, who in the world has such prestige now?" Zuo Gong pondered.
"You can't guess, or you don't dare to guess?" Xuanyuan Xuanyu said with a smile, but there was no smile at all in his eyes.
She didn't know how long she had been in a coma. When she woke up, she found that she was sleeping in a guest room of an inn. The bloody clothes on her body had been changed. Xixue was clutching a pair of clean clothes. "Xiaoer, Xiaoer..."
"Girl, are you awake?" Hearing the sound, a plump woman came in and asked with a smile on her face.
"What are these clothes..." she asked doubtfully.
"Oh, these clothes were put on by the slave family. The slave family is the proprietress of the Yuelai Inn." The woman smiled and looked carefully at the beautiful girl in front of her, who was as beautiful as a fairy. She was indescribably fond of her.
"Oh." Xixue's frown relaxed a little, but she immediately came back to her senses: "What about the young master who is with me? Where is he now?"
"The girl is talking about the cold-faced young man in gray, right?"
"Where is he?" It's really Jing Feng!
"He left. The young master asked the servant to take good care of the girl. Oh, this is what the young master left for the girl." The woman handed over a letter and a beautifully made dark green mask.
——Xixue, be careful all the way! The road to the west is not easy, so take the east side instead!
There was only one sentence, but it was full of warmth. He always indulged himself in this way. Xiuxue put away the letter and stood up immediately. The injury on his leg had been treated with medicine and was much better. "Boss lady, please prepare a horse and some dry food immediately.
, I’m going to hit the road right away!”
"But, the girl's injury -" the woman looked troubled, it must have been Jing Feng who gave her the order. "The young man in gray said, if anything happens to the girl, it won't be enough even if everyone from our Yuelai Inn is buried with her.
.”
Really - Xi Xue chuckled, Jing Feng, is this how you show your concern? "Don't worry, I will explain it to him, go quickly!"
"But--"
"Do you want me to tell him that you are neglecting me?"
"No, no, if the girl wants to leave, she can leave. I can't keep her even if I want to!" the woman said with a smile.
She had been delayed on the road for six days, and she could not delay it any longer. One day late would put Long Chang in more danger. Following the note left by Jing Feng, she walked non-stop from the east path around to the front line.
Autumn comes and the scenery is strange. The geese from Hengyang are leaving without paying attention, and there are sounds from all directions. Thousands of miles away, the smoke is long and the sun is setting, and the city is closed. Xixue can't help but sigh at the harm the war has caused to the people.
Holding Shangguan Chuque's warm jade, she entered the border. As expected, the journey was smooth. She couldn't help but worry that Shangguan Chuque was below one person. If one day, he had other intentions, the people would suffer again. Long Chang is also smart as you.
, why can’t you see through it?
The walk was smooth, and if passers-by looked at her with admiration, it was not for her, but the mask was really beautifully and delicately made.
Finally entering the last line of border defense, the two guards became very respectful when they saw the warm jade in her hand. They exchanged words and took her directly to the prince's camp, bypassing Pang Jian's eyes and ears.
"The prince is not in the camp at the moment. At this time, the prince should be patrolling the enemy's situation on the city wall. In the past few days, the Xiangguo army is not eager to fight with our army. Instead, they have chosen to close the city gates and mostly stay in the city. The prince
I go to the front line almost every day. Young Master can go into the camp and wait, and our two brothers will wait here to prevent Pang Jianjun and others from entering." A slightly fat guard said.
"Thank you." Xiuxue opened the curtain and went inside.
Si Xue was pacing back and forth, feeling really bored, so she picked up the poem on the red lacquer table and read: "The morning mirror is full of sadness, but the clouds on the temples have changed, and the night chants should feel the moonlight is cold -" It seems that this war has now become a dragon.
Chang Yi’s heartache.
Hearing a slight commotion outside the curtain, Xixue put down the large characters in her hand, lowered her head and stood aside.
"Where is the letter from Shangguan?" Long Chang was also as anxious as fire, followed by a tall and dark-skinned personal attendant.
She handed over the letter silently and returned to her original seat.
Long Chang also accepted the letter, and his expression was the same as Brother Mu's when he read the letter. The difference was that there was a fleeting look of fierceness in his eyes. Si Xue hoped that he had read it wrong, but thinking back on it many years later, that
It's not accidental.
Putting away his anger, Long Chang also unconsciously looked at the messenger who had been standing aside. "He" was neither humble nor arrogant from beginning to end. "He" actually wore a delicate mask on his face. He was just busy with letters and didn't
I just didn't notice these details.
"Xixue greets the prince!" When he recognizes her, it is better to greet him on his own.
"Oh? Sure enough, it's you!" The look on his face seemed to be a little regretful.
It seems that his eldest brother is more than just a messenger to him. "Xixue is worried about his brother's comfort and does this on his behalf. Is it wrong?"
"It seems that you brother and sister have a very deep relationship." She heard something in his words and looked at his charming smile, knowing that it must be what the others thought, but she was tired of explaining, so let him go.
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"Prince, don't you think that for the present plan, it would be more appropriate to discuss how to seize military power?" Internal and external troubles made it difficult for him to feel at ease.
Long Changyi's face suddenly darkened - it seemed that she knew a lot! But it was soon replaced by a relaxed and leisurely expression. He leaned back slightly and said: "Miss Xixue has been running all the way, and she is tired from the journey.
Why don't we take a short rest and discuss it later."
Humph - I still didn't believe her, and there was a hint of coldness in the corner of Xixue's mouth. "Whether Xixue has any malicious intentions, the prince will decide for himself." She turned around and wanted to leave. If her elder brother hadn't been concerned, she would never have put herself in the situation.
In this chaotic war, what does the hero of troubled times have to do with her?
I just heard a sigh from behind: "It looks like flowers are not flowers, mist is not mist, and it is as free and unrestrained as the wind!"
Xi Xue's steps stopped, and she stood there, wanting to look down on the world's grudges and get away, but it turned out to be just a delusion of self-deception. That's all, if he wanted to be true, she would give him the truth! She suddenly turned around and raised her head
He raised his eyes and looked at each other - he had never carefully looked at this handsome prince of Zhaoguo. He had a pair of bright black eyes, which were different from the young master's bewitching and simple blue eyes.
At that moment, it was as if time had stopped. He frowned slightly and touched her cold eyes. He felt like ice, what kind of strange woman she was.
Her movements were so fast that even she was shocked. She was caught off guard. Her dark green mask fell off her face in response, and her beautiful and picturesque face was exposed to the air without any cover. Everyone around her was frozen.
For a long time, Xi Xue lowered her eyes and spoke quietly,