Chapter 30: The Chamber of Secrets
Lu Pinglan was in a very bad mood at this moment. If a knight who is famous in the world gets a sword, he can be considered as a good person. However, he didn't expect that he could give it to a girl. In addition, he was threatened by Qin Mu in public before, and these things were stacked together, which made Lu Pinglan feel extremely depressed. After snorting coldly, he left.
At this time, Qin Qiushui came to Dong Zhao and asked in a deep voice: "Girl, are you willing to worship me, Qin Qiushui?" This question surprised Dong Zhao very much and didn't know how to answer.
Qin Mu glared at the words of his son and said, "You must not be rude. This girl is Princess Nishang, the beloved daughter of the Prince of Lingnan. What is your identity that makes people take you as your teacher? It's really nonsense." Qin Qiushui was a little dissatisfied when he heard his father's words: "What about Prince of Lingnan? What about Prince of Lingnan? If you get angry, I will ask him for someone!"
Qin Mu shouted in a deep voice: "You don't listen to me?" Qin Qiushui was angry when she saw her father, not only did not retreat, but seemed to understand something, and said in shock: "Is it because you, the old man, want to accept her as his disciple? OK OK, it turns out that you are making this idea!"
Qin Mu seemed to have been exposed and said in anger: "You rebellious son, if you can be half as sensible as your sister, I can live for at least twenty years!"
Qingyan and his men watched Qin Mu and his son from afar, regardless of the fierce quarrels of everyone present, and they were all smiling. Unexpectedly, Qin Mu, a fairy-like figure in the world, still had such a childish side when he was so old.
The embarrassment was the group of people standing in the front row. These people were trying hard to hold back their smiles, for fear that they would be poked into blood by the angry father and son of the Qin family.
Suddenly, when Qingyan Yu Guang saw Zhao Jing's expression strange, he looked along his gaze. Zhao Jing's eyes were staring at a middle-aged man in a gray robe. This man looked ordinary, as if he had disappeared when thrown into the crowd. For some reason, it attracted Zhao Jing's attention.
Qing Yan walked to Zhao Jing and asked in a low voice, "Brother Jing, you recognize the man in gray robe." Zhao Jing nodded and said in a deep voice: "Yes, that man is a guard next to my second emperor, King Zheng. He has very strong martial arts skills. Logically speaking, he should always protect the emperor, but why did he appear here at this time?"
Just as Qingyan and Zhao Jing were communicating in a low voice, the man in gray robe looked around alertly, and took advantage of the platform's attention and walked quickly towards the peach forest in the northwest. Seeing this scene, Qingyan asked, "Brother Jing, what do you think?" Zhao Jing thought for a moment: "I think this matter is absolutely unusual. You are waiting for Dong Zhao here with Brother Dong, and I will go back." After that, he walked quickly towards the man in gray robe.
Qingyan did not hesitate. He walked to Dong Yan, who was thinking about his idol Qin Qiushui, "Brother Dong, Brother Jing and I have a little uncomfortable stomach, so let's go to Taolin for convenience. Don't worry if you go back, you can watch Dong Zhao here." Then he put Ah Dai on Dong Yan's shoulder.
Dong Qi looked at Qin Qiushui and replied absent-mindedly: "Go and go, don't smoke some peach trees to death, otherwise the Wu Yue sword pool would have to plant you two into the soil."
He didn't care about Dong Yan's teasing, and patted his shoulder and quickly followed Zhao Jing. When Zhao Jing saw Qingyan following him, he was stunned at first, then smiled slightly without saying much, and stared at the man in gray robe.
Gradually leaving the crowd, Qingyan and the others followed the gray-robed man into the peach forest from afar. The gray-robed man obviously didn't know that someone was following him and was quickly shuttled through the peach forest.
After leaving, there was a stick of incense, and Qingyan and the others didn't know where they were.
"He has been guarding the emperor's side for many years, and is so familiar with this Taohua Valley. It seems that the purpose of his trip is definitely not simple."
"But even if he wants to make a mistake, aren't he afraid of the thunderous anger of the Qin father and son?"
Zhao Jing shook his head, and then the two of them followed the man in grey robe with caution without saying a word.
Finally, the other party stopped in front of a small pavilion built with carved beams and painted buildings along the mountain. He observed the surroundings vigilantly, and then found that there was no one, he entered the pavilion. Qingyan and the others leaned out from behind the peach trees in the distance and quickly flashed towards the pavilion.
When they arrived outside the pavilion, Qing Yan and the others hid on the left and right respectively and observed the room. Although the pavilion was not short, the shed beam was only slightly tall and had no two floors, and the area on the first floor was not large. The man in the gray robe was looking for something in front of a wall painting.
When the man in the gray robe pressed on the eye of a crane in the painting, there was a slight sound of "click" and the wall painting changed rapidly. Finally, a secret passage was only for one person to enter in the middle of the painting. After observing around again, the man in the gray robe quickly entered the secret passage.
"Brother Jing, I didn't expect there was such a delicate secret passage here. What do you think?"
Before Zhao Jing could answer, the two found that the wall painting was slowly changing, and it seemed that they were about to return to normal, so they did not hesitate and flashed into the secret passage as soon as the secret passage was about to disappear.
After entering, both of them held their breath and did not move, fearing that the man in the gray robe would be shocked. After half a cup of tea, Zhao Jing gently patted Qingyan behind him and then groped and walked forward.
The secret passage was extremely dark, and after being able to adapt, Qingyan could only vaguely see Zhao Jing's outline. Moreover, the secret passage was very narrow and could only be used for one person to move forward.
After walking carefully for a while, they suddenly found a light in front of them. The two of them quickly walked forward. When they entered the light, their eyes had not adapted to it, Qingyan suddenly felt a strong wind coming from his side, and his body knocked Zhao Jing in front of him to the ground like a conditioning reflex, barely avoiding the attack beside him.
But before Qingyan got up, the attack from the man behind him came again. Yu Guang saw that the man's leg was about to kick him, so he rolled forward, and the short knife behind his waist had already been grabbed in his hand. Zhao Jing also knew that someone had a sneak attack, and the purple gold soft sword was pulled out from his waist and rolled aside to look at the sneak attacker.
The person who attacked the sneak attack was not someone else, but a middle-aged man in gray robe. He was blocking the exit of the secret passage at this time, looking at Qingyan and Zhao Jing with a smile, and did not attack again for a while.
After Qingyan and Zhao Jing slowly gathered together, the latter asked, "If I guessed well, you are the guard next to the second emperor's brother. I will not ask why you are sneaking here for now, but only ask why you are attacking the two of us."
When Qingyan heard that this was the first time Zhao Jing called himself this palace, he couldn't help but feel warm. It seemed that Zhao Jing really regarded himself as a good friend and brother.
The man in gray robe smiled and replied, "It seems that His Highness of Wu has a very good memory. It is a great honor to be able to remember the appearance of a villain."
"Bold! You can answer whatever I ask you, don't just look at it." Zhao Jing shouted again without caring about the man in the gray robe without caring about the words of the man in gray.
The man in gray robe's face remained unchanged and replied, "When the villain heard about the grand event of Wu Yue Jianchi today, he came to visit him. When he saw Jian Sanchen settled, he felt bored and wandered around here. I wonder if your highness is satisfied with this explanation?"
Seeing this person so unrestrained, Zhao Jing was surprised and touched Qingyan with his arm without any trace, and continued: "It seems that you don't plan to give honest advice. It's okay. When I return to Jinling, I will ask the second emperor's brother in person and ask why his subordinates attacked me."
When the man in gray robe heard this, he seemed to hear something huge and laughed endlessly.
Maybe he was tired of laughing, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said, "Haha, haha, my respected Your Highness, you won't really think that you can still see the walls of Jinling City, right? If you really think so, then I have nothing to say."
Hearing that the man in gray robe no longer called himself a villain, and combined with his words, Qing Yan roughly knew the situation in his heart, and said, "Okay, stop laughing, which martial arts master has lit your smile acupoint? Can His Highness the King of Wu see Jinling City? Can you, the servant who guards the house and the hospital, decide? If you have something to do, just talk about it, go there without any trouble. Have you ever heard of a good dog not blocking the way?"
Qingyan's straightforward and unconcealed ridicule made the man in the gray robe stop abruptly. He slowly put away his smile and looked at Qingyan and said, "You are the little hero in the birch forest that night. You are very good at it. If the subordinates of the King of Lingnan lurked around that night, you probably wouldn't have the life to talk to me like this now."
"It seems that you, the roadblocker, is no longer concealed. If that's the case, let's open the skylight and say something. You just deliberately led us here. But no matter what your purpose is, I might as well tell you the truth. I have greeted the Prince of Lingnan before. He led the guards to arrive. If you know the truth, hurry up and get out of the way. Otherwise, if the prince arrives in a while, you will have no chance even if you want to give up." Qing Yan was secretly happy that his guess was correct, and he bluffed while his eyes were quickly observing the surrounding environment.
The man in gray robe smiled and shook his head: "It seems that this little hero doesn't know where this is. This secret room is the important place of Wu Yue's sword pool. Few people know that, and it is impossible for outsiders to find a way to come in, so your bluff doesn't work for me. But then again, you are not bad at a young age, and you should have made a name for yourself in time, but you should never have entered this secret room with the King of Wu and wade into this muddy water. When you see the Queen of Hell, you should blame yourself for being too lucky."
Qingyan also knew that what the other party said was not a lie, but his face was calm as usual: "If I guessed correctly, your meaning is not just that you don't want His Highness the King of Wu and me to leave, but also that you want us to die here?"
The man in gray nodded seriously and said, "That's right." Qing Yan sighed softly and said, "You answered so simply, isn't that a talk?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Qingyan had already rushed towards the man in the gray robe, stabbing the short knife in his hand towards the other party's heart, and Zhao Jing followed closely behind, and the soft sword in his hand hit the man in the gray robe like a long rainbow.
But what the two of them did not expect was that the man in the gray robe was watching the sword stabbed in the slash. What the two of them did not expect was that when the sword was about to pierce into the man in the gray robe, it was hard to move forward at all.
At this moment, the man in the gray robe used two fingers to clamp the blade of the sword. Qing Yan and Zhao Jing did not see the movements of the man in the gray robe at all, and even more surprised that this man's martial arts were so super high.
Chapter completed!