Only the shadow looks towards the evening and the string is missing. A wisp of Hua Yao and the two parting.
Listening to the watch in the small building, the starry sky is cold, I turn on the lamp and sit at my desk, dreaming of butterflies.
There are clouds flying over the feathers, who rings the Zen bell? The tears will turn into frost.
It is even more unbearable to see the full moon. The light is overflowing, and my thoughts are piled with snow.
The breeze picked up the peach petals again, one in two, almost sobbing.
The clouds and water are vast and reach the sky. I read the music and play it, but the sound is unresponsive and empty.
At three o'clock on the sixteenth day of April, on the island rock on the north shore of Moforget Island, a woman in white played the harp.
As the music rose, the woman sang in harmony, but the sound of the piano was quiet and lonely, the strings were filled with sadness, the singing was sour and desolate, and the words were heartfelt. In the clear breeze and bright moon, it made people feel desolate.
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Standing in the forest and listening quietly, Xu Wenxiangzhu cried silently. As the lingering sound echoed, he sighed quietly and turned towards the island.
When they walked to the entrance of the bamboo fence of the east courtyard, Zhao Yongan, who came from the east bank, saw tears on Xu Wenxiang's face and was shocked, "Miss Wenxiang, what's wrong with you? Miss Lin?"
"It's okay...junior brother and junior sister are all gone, and I feel deserted all of a sudden. I just listened to junior sister play music, which made me feel melancholy..."
It turned out that the woman playing the piano on the island rock in the north was Lin Wanzhen. Luo Xiaoyao, Xiao Muyun, and Mu Daocheng left the island at noon and headed north to Yunzhou, but she came to Mowang Island at three o'clock in the morning.
"Well, Zhao is not used to it either. When Senior Mu and Mr. Luo go to find that evil woman, Zhao will follow whatever she says."
Zhao Yongan paused for a moment and then said: "Just now Zhao put the newly purchased boat under the observation tower for backup... Well, if there had been a spare boat that day, Thief An would not have been allowed to escape."
After An Longxing seized the boat and fled, Mu Daocheng and the others were unable to leave the island in the morning. Fortunately, a fishing boat passed by and they left by boat at noon. When Mu Daocheng arrived at the east coast, he ordered
Old Man Yang purchased two fishing boats, one large and one small, and sent them to the island.
"This evil guy just got lucky for a while..." As Xu Wenxiang was talking, when he saw Lin Wanzhen coming with the piano in his arms, he hurriedly stopped talking and went to greet him, took the piano, and said with a smile: "I'm leaving the island all of a sudden.
I'm here, but I'm not used to it. I just wanted to talk to my junior sister and listen to you composing music, so I didn't dare to disturb her... I turned around and went back to the courtyard to sit down and talk."
Zhao Yong'an didn't want to disturb the chat between her fellow students, so he bowed out and went to the west courtyard to rest.
After Lin Wanzhen sat down, she asked: "Master and Mistress, have you ever said when they will return to the island? And Senior Brother Luo and Senior Sister Xiao..."
When she came to the island, it happened to be meal time. She did not ask Chu Nanfeng and his wife, Luo Xiaoyao and others about their return date. When Xu Wenxiang went to pack the tableware, she felt melancholy and went to play the piano and play music on the rock on the north island.
pregnant.
"Sir and Master heard that they are going to stay in the academy for a while, and they think they will not return until around the middle of next month. Junior Brother Luo and the others... I think it will be around that time."
"Oh? It will take a month?" Lin Wanzhen said as if nothing had been lost, "Didn't you say that you were going to Prince Xing's Mansion to find the evil woman?"
"It's more than 5,000 miles back and forth to Yunzhou. If we don't travel day and night, it will take ten days. I heard that after Junior Sister Xiao pays homage to her father, she has to go to Youzhou to visit her brother... It should take a lot of time.
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Xu Wenxiang paused, sighed, and then said: "The reason why they came to the island again is to take me to rescue Cui'er. I... I really owe my junior brother, too many junior sisters, too many
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"Senior sister, you must not think so. What is fraternity? We are like members of the same family..." Lin Wanzhen looked at Xu Wenxiang who looked guilty, and sighed secretly in her heart, but fearing that she would be sad, she looked at the guqin placed on the stone table and changed the subject.
, "This piano is called 'Wangyue', and it was brought to me as a gift to Senior Sister Xiao. I can only ask Senior Sister to keep it for you now..."
"What does junior sister mean...?" Xu Wenxiang was stunned.
"I want to go north to Bianjing tomorrow. There are still some things to do there. I will come to the island before the tenth day of next month. Then I will accompany my senior brother and senior sister to Prince Xing's Mansion."
Xu Wenxiang only knew that Lin Wanzhen returned to Jingnan to break away from seclusion. He had just listened to her music and knew that she was feeling sad. However, Xu Wenxiang did not know about Lin Wanzhen's emotional history and Shang You's death in saving her.
, even if I think of comfort, there is nothing I can say.
She originally wanted to keep Lin Wanzhen as her companion on the island, so she slowly let go of her sentimental feelings. After hearing this, she guessed that Lin Wanzhen's trip to Bianjing might be related to her current state of mind, so she gave up the idea of persuading her to stay.
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The next morning, Lin Wanzhen left the island with Xu Wenxiang and Zhao Yongan, riding horses at a gallop. When passing through the small town of Jinjiang in Jiangzhou, she suddenly remembered the pig-killing scholar she had met. When she walked to the butcher shop in her memory, she suddenly
I found that the shop had changed its sign, changed its business, and turned into a noodle shop. I felt strange for a moment, turned around, and went to the inn where I stayed that night.
Now she disguised herself as a man, but the shopkeeper heard her ask about the pig-killing scholar, but he hesitated for a long time and refused to tell her. When Lin Wanzhen let go of her female voice and told the story of her stay in the shop that day, the shopkeeper recognized her.
He came out and told the story about the pig killing scholar and the fight with people a month ago.
Lin Wanzhen was dumbfounded when she heard this. When she came back to her senses, she carefully inquired about the appearance of the person who was fighting against the pig-killing scholar. However, she was shocked. She also guessed that the person fighting was Chu Nanfeng. She sat on the bench blankly for a while.
I was speechless for a long time.
After a long while, he thanked the shopkeeper who looked suspicious, and rode his horse towards the south of the town. When he came to the street entrance, he raised his eyes and looked at a hill in the southwest. After hesitating for a moment, he led the horse away, but he was about to go.
Go and look for what the pig-killing scholar calls the Wuhui Mountain.
After passing through a field path, we entered a forest road that was a hundred feet away from the streets in the town. We followed the nearly ten feet wide forest road to the southwest for more than a mile and came to the foot of a hill about fifty or sixty feet high.
On the way up the mountain, tie your mount to a big tree on the side of the road and walk towards the mountain.
Halfway up the mountain, she saw a small stone path on the left, leading to a bamboo forest more than two feet high. Lin Wanzhen remembered the poem the scholar had recited on the day of the pig killing, and with a thought in mind, she walked up the stone path on the left and walked into the bamboo forest.
After walking six or seven feet, my eyes suddenly opened up, and I saw a flat mountainous area more than ten feet square, with a plum tree planted there. In early summer, the plum blossoms had already withered, and some buds could be seen on the bare branches.
A bamboo house was built against the high mountain to the north. Lin Wanzhen hesitated for a moment, walked through the path in the plum forest, and walked to the bamboo house. She saw that the wooden door of the bamboo house was closed, but there was no lock outside. When she listened carefully, it seemed that no one was there.
Live in the house.
But thinking that the martial arts of this pig-killing scholar was unfathomable, Lin Wanzhen made a thought in her heart, stood five feet away from the wooden door, clasped her fists and saluted, saying: "Junior Lin Wanzhen, come here to see Mr. Li."
After no one responded for a long time, Lin Wanzhen walked to the door, hesitated for a moment, sighed, and finally gave up the idea of pushing the door in, turned around and left.
Two days later, I arrived at a place more than twenty miles away from Xuzhou City. When I turned a corner, I saw a group of people coming towards me more than ten feet away. The leaders were Chang Shan and Meng Xiaohu, followed by two others.
A carriage, accompanied by thirty or forty well-dressed men on both sides.
Lin Wanzhen was pleasantly surprised. She rode her horse up and walked to the front of the team. She jumped off the horse and saluted: "Wanzhen has met Uncle Chang and Uncle Meng..."
Meng Xiaohu and Chang Shan looked stunned for a moment and looked at each other. Then Meng Xiaohu chuckled and said, "You disguised yourself as a man, but you fooled my uncle... Are you from Jingnan? Have you broken through?"
Lin Wanzhen was about to answer, but she saw three people getting out of the two stopped carriages. Chang Qingqing and Miao Kexue appeared in the first carriage, while Luo Hanshui came out of the second carriage.
Lin Wanzhen was even more surprised and hurriedly rushed to meet the three of them and bowed to each other.
Luo Hanshui looked at Lin Wanzhen, nodded and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Miss Wanzhen for reaching a higher level. She is awesome, awesome. With your talent, even Xiaoyao may not be able to match it..."
"Senior uncle, you've received the award..." Lin Wanzhen's face turned slightly red, "How dare I, this junior, compare myself with my senior brother."
It turned out that Lin Wanzhen had gone back to Jingnan to practice in seclusion for more than half a year, and had already entered the realm of spiritual consciousness. Changshan and Meng Xiaohu had not yet reached the realm of spiritual consciousness, so naturally they couldn't tell.
"Haha, I heard Xiaoyao say that when you first started, you were only a small success, but you have broken through a big realm in more than two years. This talent is extraordinary." Luo Hanshui smiled slightly, paused, "I think you just broke through.
Let’s rush to Moforget Island?”
"Exactly, has Senior Brother met Senior Brother and the others?" Lin Wan was really a smart person, but hearing Luo Hanshui's question, she guessed that Luo Xiaoyao and the others had gone to Kaifeng and had met Luo Hanshui.
"Well, two days ago Xiaoyao, little Muyun stopped in Kaifeng with Senior Mu." Luo Hanshui nodded and said with a smile: "I saw that Muyun hasn't returned to the mansion for many years, and I didn't try to persuade him to stay. They just rested for two hours, that's all.
Going north to Yunzhou...are you here looking for Xiaoyao and Muyun?"
Lin Wanzhen shook her head when she heard this, looked at Chang Qingqing, and replied: "This junior is here to find Princess Qingqing..."
Chang Qingqing was very surprised, "Sister Wanzhen is here to find me?"
Lin Wanzhen smiled and nodded, "It's because of the Hidden Qi Pill..."
Before he finished speaking, Luo Hanshui laughed and said, "Like several elders in the pavilion, they are all looking for Qingqing's Hidden Qi Pill. Let's go and talk to the carriage..."
Lin Wanzhen was surprised, and she and Chang Qingqing followed Luo Hanshui to the second carriage. As the team moved forward, Luo Hanshui told Lin Wanzhen the reason why he was traveling with Chang Qingqing.
It turned out that he was not familiar with Cheng Zheng and was not invited to attend Cheng Rou's wedding. However, due to Chu Nanfeng's relationship, he attended Cheng Rou's wedding on the sixth day of April after Master Jiang Qiubai's great joy.
He originally planned to return to Fangzhou on the day when Chu Nanfeng sent Chu's father back to Taibai Mountain, but the return trip was delayed due to the pending arrangements for the departure and stay of the elders from various places.
Several of the elders who were willing to be worshiped by the Shenhu Camp heard Elder Fu talk about the assassination of the Liao envoy, and became very interested in the magical effect of the 'Hidden Qi Pill', so they asked Luo Hanshui to come forward and ask for it, and Chang Qingqing naturally agreed.
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The Great Zhou Dynasty was planning to send troops to the Shu Kingdom to regain the four prefectures of Xichuan, but they needed 'Xingjun Pills' and Da Yao Jin Chuang Yao, so Guo Rong asked Chang Qingqing and Meng Xiaohu to lead a group of people to Yaowang Valley to make medicine.
To get the medicine, Luo Hanshui goes along the way.
After listening to Luo Hanshui's explanation of the process, Lin Wanzhen's face turned slightly red, "Last time Mr. Mo went back, he also told the masters of the palace about the magical effects of the Hidden Qi Pill. They came to look for my father and asked the younger generation to come forward.
Princess Qingqing asked for it... I’m just afraid of causing inconvenience to Princess Qingqing.”
"Many martial arts masters know that being a guest or minister next to someone in the court is as dangerous as the rivers and lakes, and there are endless assassinations under orders..."
Luo Hanshui paused for a moment and said: "It is normal for some people not to want their skills to be seen by outsiders in order to facilitate their actions... But long-term use of the 'Hidden Qi Pill' is not beneficial to one's cultivation. Does Miss Wan Zhen know that?"
Lin Wanzhen was stunned and shook her head.
Chang Qingqing continued: "I heard from my adoptive father that taking this Hidden Qi Pill once will have the effect of seven days to improve the cultivation level and suppress the return to the true state. If it is combined with sealing the key points related to the Ren and Du channels,
It can also make people appear to have no martial arts skills."
"But the reason why it has the effect of suppressing cultivation is that the medicinal properties slow down the flow of qi and blood in the meridians. Long-term use will cause the meridians to shrink, but it has an impact on cultivation..."
"If Sister Wanzhen is in need, Qingqingdai can ask her adoptive father for help, but it needs to be noted down... and tell the person who uses the elixir that it is best to use it once every six months to avoid suffering the consequences."
"Thank you very much, Princess Qingqing, for reminding me. I will definitely inform the elders of Jingnan about the efficacy of this elixir."
"The elder who originally wanted a lot of pills..." Luo Hanshui continued with a smile: "Once I heard about this side effect, haha, everyone retracted their thoughts. Everyone only wants ten pills."
"I heard from my adoptive father that it is easy to get this elixir, but it is not easy to refine it. It takes half a month to make each elixir. However, if there are no accidents, one elixir furnace can refine fifty pills. There are three elixir furnaces in the valley.
...We will use them all together at that time, I think one time is enough."
"So many?" Lin Wanzhen was slightly surprised and said with a smile: "Mr. Mo and the others knew that it was not easy to make these pills, and no one dared to ask for more. A total of six people asked for eighteen pills. From this point of view... I think...
I want to get another twenty pills for later use. I wonder if the princess can give them as a gift?"
While Chang Qingqing was stunned, Luo Hanshui laughed loudly, "Miss Wan Zhen is not only honest, but also a strategic person. Okay, okay, I will take all the rest of Master Luo, haha..."
As the master of Tongbao Pavilion, Luo Hanshui is the leader of the layout, so he naturally wants to keep some Hidden Qi Pills as backup. Lin Wanzhen and Chang Qingqing were slightly surprised when they heard this, and looked at each other, laughing happily.
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At noon on the ninth day of May, in the mountains of Yaowang Valley, Chang Qingqing and Lin Wanzhen were walking on the mountain forest trail carrying bamboo baskets on their backs.
Looking at Chang Qingqing, who had beads of sweat on her forehead, Lin Wan felt affection for her. She took out the fragrant handkerchief and handed it over, "The weather is getting hotter, but fortunately it's cool in the mountains. Come, sit down and rest..."
"Thank you, Sister Wanzhen. I have it with me." Chang Qingqing pushed the handkerchief that was handed to her, followed Lin Wanzhen to a rock a few feet away, put down her backpack and sat down.
"I think Princess Qingqing, you are really powerful. You have been here in the mountains since Chen to look for medicinal materials. I have been walking for nearly two hours and I haven't seen you tired yet."
The path in the deep valley of Yaowang Valley is rugged, mostly dangerous, and requires climbing steep rocks. Lin Wanzhen, who has a small amount of spiritual skills, also feels a little tired. If she had not told her to take a rest, Chang Qingqing would not have stopped.
"In the past few years, I followed my grandfather and my adoptive father often went out to the mountains to make medicine. I'm used to it. If I hadn't been at the realm of Gu Yuan Xiaocheng, I might not be able to walk long ago."
Chang Qingqing smiled and said, "My adoptive father said that the Shiyin Qi Pill can be refined. When we return to the courtyard in the valley, we will surely see Mr. Luo coming to get the pills... Sister Wanzhen, you have to personally take the pills."
Send it back to Jingnan?"
Lin Wanzhen shook her head, "If you want to ask Uncle Luo to send an arrow guard, I will go directly to Moforget Island. Where are you, Princess Qingqing?"
"Now my brother, Ke Xue and the others have escorted a large amount of medicinal materials back to Beijing, enough to handle a big battle... I want my adoptive father and the others to come with me to Bianjing to stay for a while.
Now that my adoptive father and others have free time, they think they have no excuse not to go with me. Hehe, now that I am alone again, they will not trust me to return to Beijing alone."
It turned out that Chang Shan, Meng Xiaohu and the others had already escorted the 'Xingjun Pill' and Jinchuang Medicine back to the capital. Chang Qingqing only waited for the Hidden Qi Pill to be refined before persuading Miao Xiuzhu, his wife and Yuan Bo to go to the capital for a short stay.
"You urged Ke Xue to go with my junior uncle first. It turns out you had a purpose. Haha, the princess is so smart."
"Yu Xin asked his adoptive father and mother to take Uncle Yuan to Bianjing several times, but he was always turned down... so I had to put some thought into it."
Chang Qingqing raised her eyes to look at Cang Mang, who was stopping on a big tree nearby, and smiled, "Take Cang Mang for a walk when the time comes..."
As if he understood Chang Qingqing's words, Cang Mang suddenly opened his wings, swooped in front of the two of them, let out a low cry, flapped his wings again, and flew into the air.
"Haha, it's urging us to hurry up again, let's go..." Lin Wanzhen said with a smile.
"Yes." Chang Qingqing picked up the bamboo basket filled with herbs and answered, "It's only five miles away through the woods in front of us, and it happens to be meal time."
After walking through the woods and down the slope, the two of them walked to a flat road on the mountainside. After walking for more than three miles, they suddenly heard a scream of "Cang Mang" in the air, and then saw it swooping down like an arrow.
Go, three breaths later, there was another scream, but it was extremely tragic.
Lin Wanzhen and Chang Qingqing were startled, looked at each other, and walked quickly. After ten breaths, they ran to the mountain road across the creek from the courtyard. At the edge of the creek, which was more than 30 feet away, a group of figures were fighting together.
Just hearing a muffled sound, the stream rose into the sky. Amidst the splashing water, three figures separated. Lin Wanzhen and Chang Qingqing were suddenly shocked. It turned out that the person fighting was Luo Hanshui. Weng Mu and a man wearing a green robe with a face
A man covered with blue cloth.
The masked man thought he was defeated by Luo and Weng who jointly attacked. His body was shaken back a few steps. Suddenly he paused and stood up again, but flew towards Lin Wanzhen and Chang Qingqing.
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Lin Wanzhen was shocked, raised the medicine hoe in her hand, and used her strength to throw it at the masked man. At the same time, she turned around and grabbed Chang Qingqing's shoulder, who was already stunned, and rushed towards the hillside forest.
As the masked man was rising and falling, he split open the medicine hoe thrown by Lin Wanzhen with one palm. He fell and fell, and instantly reached the place where Chang and Chang were standing. When they jumped into the forest and chased after them, "Whoosh"
, swoosh" sound sounded, and several green lines shot towards the masked man like electricity.
The masked man spun in mid-air to avoid the poisonous snake used by Chang Qingqing. When he fell down and stood on the hillside, Luo Hanshui who arrived hit him with a palm of his hand, 'Spring Breeze Transforms Rain', and the masked man jumped up.
, instead came to attack from a high position, but after hearing a muffled sound, the surrounding trees shook, branches, leaves and grass clippings flew in, and Luo Hanshui took two steps back.
The masked man used the force of his palm to counter the shock and flew upside down to a big tree on the hillside. He slapped the tree with his right palm and fell down the mountain road down the left slope.
Weng Mu also arrived at this time, looked at each other with Luo Hanshui, and simultaneously attacked the masked man three feet away from the left and the right. Suddenly, two piercing qi jets came out with the force of a river running thousands of miles away.
The masked man thought he knew how powerful it was, and when he raised his palm to strike, he retreated violently.
When the Qi energy generated by Luo and Weng collided with the palm wind of the masked man, dust was flying on both sides, but there was no sound at the place of collision. Luo and Weng were stunned, and they were already
The masked man who retreated five feet away suddenly jumped up and rushed into the forest on the hillside.
At this moment, Lin and Chang ran out of the forest not far behind Luo Hanshui. Luo Hanshui called to Weng Mu, who jumped onto the hillside, "Elder Weng, don't chase after him. This man has extraordinary skills. He has entered
It is already difficult to deal with in the forest..."
Weng Mu fell down when he heard the sound, and said with a shocked look on his face: "What kind of technique is this person using? It seems like it can swallow other people's Qi."
Luo Hanshui shook his head, "It's not that it's swallowing, but it's that the qi that resists it is indistinguishable from yin and yang, and enters the realm of chaos..."
"Enter the realm of chaos?" Weng Mu was surprised for a moment.
"We will investigate the origin of this person slowly..." Luo Hanshui turned to Lin and Chang, who were also shocked, and said: "Fortunately, you reacted quickly and avoided the forest. If you had gone straight to this road, I think it would have been
Has been hijacked by this person..."
"My foster father, mother, and the others...are they in danger?" Chang Qingqing could see tears in her eyes.
Luo Hanshui did not answer, but rushed towards the courtyard where Miao Xiuzhu and his wife lived.
Lin and Chang, who followed closely, only listened to Weng Mu who was beside them: "When the pavilion master and I heard Cang Mang's first cry, we happened to rush to the wooden house where Bingwei was. When Cang Mang's first cry
When the second call came, the man had already left the courtyard wall..."
The military guard who assisted Miao Xiuzhu Pharmaceutical lived more than fifty feet away from the courtyard. When they heard Cangmang's first cry, Luo and Weng immediately knew that something was wrong.
The screaming eagle flew upside down outside the courtyard, and then the masked man came out. The two of them tried to stop them, but they had no time to observe the situation in the courtyard.
When she arrived at the gate of the courtyard fence, Chang Qingqing stopped and looked at the six motionless figures lying on the ground in the courtyard. Her lips were trembling and tears were pouring down. She walked to a figure in despair.
He suddenly knelt down and wailed, "Grandpa Yuan..."
The soldiers who were sent to the valley and Uncle Yuan were all dead. Lin Wanzhen was shocked when she saw Chang Qingqing throwing away the basket on her back, running madly towards the north bamboo house, breaking into the middle bamboo house, and after two breaths
She only heard a cry of sorrow, "Mother... adoptive father..." and then there was no sound.
Lin Wanzhen regained her composure and rushed into the house. In the messy wooden house, she saw Miao Xiuzhu tilting her head, eyes wide open, blood bleeding from the corners of her mouth, leaning motionless on the chair, three feet in front of him.
There, Huangfuxiu was lying on the ground, with a few scratches on his face covered in blood and flesh.
Luo Hanshui, who was in the house, supported the unconscious Chang Qingqing, and put his right hand on her back, stimulating Qi. After a moment, Chang Qingqing slowly opened his eyes, and turned to Huangfuxiu who was lying on the ground with tears in his eyes.
, he crawled over on his knees, stretched out his right hand, tremblingly touched Huangfu Xiu's bloody face, and let out a heart-rending cry.