Chapter 61 Zhou Ehuang(1/2)
At this time, I heard the sound of the arrows on the roof, thinking that it was the Khitan language, Chu Nanfeng could not understand it, so he saw four people retreating to the west side of the house. A sixty-year-old man in a gray robe appeared beside the man holding the arrow. The old man was skilled at the top of Mingqiao Mountain.
Chu Nanfeng was shocked, and he thought that the entourage on duty in a high-ranking official's house rushed back to help. At this time, Wu Wangbo and Hua Qianxing had not appeared. If there were still guards to return, even if he and Wu, Hua could escape, and the elders in the front yard would probably be dead.
When he was thinking about it, he was about to rush to the north roof, but he saw Wu and Hua jumping down from the main hall. Wu Wangbo's left shoulder was bleeding and his face was pale. Thinking that after a hard struggle, Chu Nanfeng was shocked and said anxiously: "Two masters, you must not stay here for a long time. Let's leave with the elders first. I will come to the palace behind..."
With his cultivation level, it is easy to escape. Wu and Hua both knew that what Chu Nanfeng said was reasonable, and at the same time he said "Be careful", he quickly went to the front yard.
The six guards did not dare to stop them from clones. They stared at Chu Nanfeng on the upper and lower rooms, with a look of alert. Chu Nanfeng originally intended to stop them from chasing Wu, Hua and others from breaking through. Seeing that they had not moved, they were concentrating on their minds to guard against themselves, so they also used their swords to fight against them.
At this time, the sound of arrows and shouts of killing were everywhere in the front yard. Chu Nanfeng thought that it was Hua Qianxing and others who rushed out of the mansion, but they were afraid that there would be people from the Botan Realm in front of the mansion to block them. They moved their feet and rushed towards the top of the wall of the Chuhuamen. As soon as they moved, they heard the sound of "swooshing" breaking through the air, and the person holding the arrow shot the arrow. At the same time, the old man also jumped up and slapped out in the air, making it the "Vajra Palm" of Buddhism. The person holding the gun also stabbed downwards with a gun.
The old man is still the junior brother of Mu Zhi, the abbot of Xinglong Temple of the Liao Dynasty. His surname is Zhou and Tong, and he is the chief worshiper of the Guard Sinan Court. His fist and palms have been practiced to be simple and simple, which seems to be a simple and simple one. The next palm is slapped out, and the moves are not clever, but the palm energy is like flying thousands of miles. Chu Nanfeng was in mid-air, and his spiritual sense moved. The Qingyu Sword faced the flying arrow and shouted lightly. His body rose three feet into the air, avoiding the tip of the spear coming from his legs. At the same time, he hit it out with a palm "towards the wind and waves" to meet Zhou Tong's palm energy.
With a dull sound, Zhou Tong's body in the air was so shocked that he might have turned two times in a row. He fell in front of the three stick-holders. He took a step back and took a breath. He stood still, but he saw two broken arrows falling in front of him, but the arrow shot by the arrow was cut by the blue fish sword.
Chu Nanfeng fell and stepped on the tip of the gunman who was holding the gun to retreat. The gunman suddenly felt like he was carrying a mountain of heavy loads and could not bear it. He thought something was wrong, so he quickly took off his hand and shot his gun and retreated violently. The silver spear fell to the ground with Chu Nanfeng and was trampled into the soil.
The three masters worked together to attack, but they were broken by Chu Nanfeng. However, seeing that Chu Nanfeng was hanging vertically on the top of the flower gate wall, Zhou Tong and others knew that the action was not only futile, but also had the risk of injury. Looking at each other, they all looked helpless.
Between the two rises and falls, Chu Nanfeng had already reached the roof of the front yard, and saw Wu, Hua and others jumping onto the roof to the south and running away. On the west side, there were also several figures coming from the roof, knowing that they were guards and escorts on duty outside and rushed back.
But if Zhou Tong and others chased him and attacked him together, it would be a big trouble. As soon as he thought about it, he turned to the direction where Wu Wangbo and others left. With his skills, the soldiers of the Guards in front of the mansion could not stop him and could only shoot. The rain-like arrows were not as big as Chu Nanfeng's body, but they were shocked to the ground by his protective aura.
In less than half a cup of tea, Chu Nanfeng also caught up with Wu Wangbo and others. Although the patrol soldiers on the inner and outer city walls also took action to stop them, how could they stop these martial arts masters? After a stick of incense, everyone rushed to a place five miles south of the city to meet with the Tongbao Pavilion Arrow Guard who was preparing horses here.
Looking at the body of Elder Mu who was carrying Tang Wang, Wu Wangbo sighed and said with guilty expression: "Buried Elder Mu and Elder Lin in this forest."
It turned out that the elder Lin, who was injured and leaned against the stone lion, had also died. Wu Wangbo and nine others went north to guard the palace and killed Liu Gongwen, but instead damaged Mu and Lin. The two elders Lin, except Hua Qianxing and Tang Wang, were injured, and two of them were seriously injured. If Chu Nanfeng had not arrived, Wu and Hua would not have left the elders behind and ignored them. At that time, they thought they would have fought to the point where the entire army was wiped out.
Chu Nanfeng took advantage of the fact that everyone buried Mu and Lin's bodies and healed the other two seriously injured elders, and said to Wu Wangbo: "Master Wu, although these two elders are not seriously injured for the time being, they should not be able to move quickly..."
Wu Wangbo nodded: "I don't think the Khitan soldiers will chase me. Let's go to the front to find a carriage and make arrangements when they arrive in Zhenzhou."
I thought it was too confident, but I didn't expect someone to be injured. Although there were horses, there were no carriages. The two seriously injured people were unable to ride on horses, so they had to take turns to carry them by several arrow guards.
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Just arrived at the hour of the day, in the hall of Tongbao Pavilion in Jiangning Prefecture, Luo Xiaoyao saw Manager Zhu who was going out to inquire about the news quickly, and hurriedly stood up to meet him, saying, "How about it? But did you find out the whereabouts of Junior Sister Xiao and the others?"
"Young Master, don't worry, let my subordinates report..." Manager Zhu nodded, sat down with Luo Xiaoyao, and bowed and said, "I'm looking for the familiar Longwu Junshi who is inquiring about it. It happened that he was on duty in the Office of the Ministry today. From his mouth, Miss Xiao and Elder Gu did fall into Shen Liancheng's hands."
Mr. Liu is notorious and was knocked out by Xiao Muyun on the Qin Zhunhe pleasure boat. Naturally, some people say that Mr. Liu is a good person. After Mr. Zhu greeted him a few cups of hot wine, he talked about Mr. Liu and said that Mr. Liu was arrested. Without waiting for Mr. Zhu to inquire about him, he told him about the murderer being arrested.
Luo Xiaoyao said in surprise: "Shen Liancheng? He is in Jiangning Mansion?" Although he had guessed that it was the man from the Baodan Realm who took action and captured Gu and Xiao, he was still surprised when he heard that it was Shen Liancheng.
Manager Zhu nodded and frowned, "This Shen Liancheng is Liu Zhenyi's brother-in-law. It is normal for him to come to Jiangning to visit his parents-in-law. But his subordinates wondered why he knew that Elder Gu had a foothills in Mingqiao Mountain, so he took action himself. The elder Gu and Miss Xiao who were taken should be taken to the prison of the Police Department, but they were detained in the Office of the Ministry of Justice..."
Regarding the reason why Shen Liancheng took action personally, Luo Xiaoyao guessed that it should be related to Gu Yanchun, but he detained Xiao and Gu in the Ministry of Justice, but there was no way to guess. However, it was important to save people. The reason was of no help. Hearing this, he said, "Can Manager Zhu know the situation of the Ministry of Justice, guards?"
"The Longwu Left Fang Army guards the capital. Although there is no war at the moment, the official office will be opened at night so that the four city gates can be dispatched immediately. There are officials on duty at night. The guards of the yamen heard that there were about twenty people..." Manager Zhu paused and asked, "Does the young master want to go and rob people?"
Luo Xiaoyao is not a reckless person. Just by Gu Yanchun's cultivation, he is comparable to himself, not to mention Chen Liancheng and a group of guards, shook his head and said, "I want to first find Junior Sister Xiao, the exact location where Elder Gu was detained, and then make plans."
Manager Zhu has achieved a small cultivation of spiritual thoughts. He originally thought that if Chen Liancheng was not in Jiangning Mansion, he would have waited for an opportunity to make a fortune. Now he has given up this idea and pondered for a moment: "Why send a message to inform the leader Fang and the others..."
"No." Luo Xiaoyao said decisively: "Martial Master will take people to Youzhou. Only Master Fang and Elder Weng and others in the General Pavilion can protect the safety of the Lord. Don't let him be distracted."
Although Manager Zhu didn't know what happened to Wu Wangbo's dispatch of elders from each branch to Youzhou, he thought it was related to Luo Hanshui's injury, and Fang Yuan could not leave the general pavilion. Hearing this, his mind changed rapidly and he thought about how to take action to rescue Xiao and Gu.
"If it weren't for the words of the letter, I forgot something. Manager Zhu immediately sent the letter to the General Pavilion of the Arrow Guard, and said... No monks in Ming Dynasty were in seclusion and practiced, and they would definitely go to save the Lord of the Pavilion in half a year." Luo Xiaoyao was missing from Xiao Muyun and was worried about her whereabouts, and even forgot to send the letter to the General Pavilion as Wen Yi promised.
"Ah, do this really? I will do it right away..." Manager Zhu saw the joy of worry, and hurriedly turned around and left the hall to instruct the Archway Pass to the General Pavilion of the Archway Guard.
When he arrived at the hall, he saw Luo Xiaoyao having changed into a black dress at night. He guessed that he was going to the Longwu Army Office to explore where Xiao and Gu were detained, and he said with a worry, "Young Master, let your subordinates go and inquire..."
"No, if you are in charge of this matter, if there is any mistake, all branches in Jiangnan may be involved."
Manager Zhu thought that if Luo Xiaoyao made mistakes in Jiangning Mansion, he would be guilty of death. Now Luo Xiaoyao refused, and he was anxious and said in panic: "Even if there are any mistakes in all divisions, the young master cannot make mistakes..."
Luo Xiaoyao sighed in his heart, "Don't worry, Manager Zhu, I am not going to rob people, I will act carefully. I think it will not be so easy to discover with others. Besides, I accidentally practiced the hidden qi technique."
Manager Zhu looked surprised and suspicious. He saw that Luo Xiaoyao's cultivation energy disappeared while breathing. A person who seemed to have no martial arts skills couldn't help but take a breath. In surprise, Luo Xiaoyao smiled slightly, patted his shoulder, and left quickly.
As Manager Zhu said, the gate of the Longwu Army Office was wide open, and two guards stood at the door. Luo Xiaoyao turned to the backyard wall on the east side. After looking at no one, he jumped into the government office, hid under the willow tree beside the courtyard wall, observed for a moment, rushed to the rockery more than ten feet in front of him, and looked up to visit.
But I saw a large pond five feet to the right side of my body. There was a wooden house about four feet long and more than one foot wide. You could vaguely see wooden pillars under the house that were exposed to the water surface.
There is a corridor nearly five feet wide extending in front of the wooden house. At both ends of the corridor, a wooden plank road more than two feet long is set up diagonally, which connects with the bluestone path on the garden. The door of the wooden house is open and lights are exposed. There are four guards guarding the corridor at the entrance.
This pond is more than twenty feet apart from the atrium and the houses of the summer hall. There is a rain-shading corridor connected directly in the middle, and various flowers and plants are planted around the corridor.
Looking at the wooden house on the pond, Luo Xiaoyao thought that if this wooden house was not where the officials on duty were resting, it would be where Xiao and Gu were imprisoned. However, they saw that the pond was covered with water. Except for the wooden plank roads on both sides, there was no other way to get close to the wooden house.
I looked up at the north courtyard wall and found that the pond was five feet wide between the north courtyard wall and willow trees were planted on it. With a thought, I turned around and retreated, leaned against the east courtyard wall, turned over the northeast corner, and sneaked behind the wooden house.
But I saw four windows behind the wooden house, the left and right two were nearly four feet wide, while the middle two were more than meter apart, and the windows were only about two feet wide. After a little thought, I guessed that there should be decorations such as calligraphy and paintings hanging in the middle of the main hall, so there were small windows on both sides of the hall for lighting and ventilation.
Luo Xiaoyao was not familiar with water. He looked at the water surface that was nearly two meters away from the wooden house, thinking about how to get close to the exploration. Suddenly, he saw a small window on the left flashing with oil paper figure, and a white light shining through the window, but it shot towards him, and it was like lightning.
Luo Xiaoyao was shocked and hurriedly pulled up. Then he heard a "dang" sound. The white light hit the courtyard wall. As soon as his body fell on the courtyard wall, he felt a terrifying and popular energy coming from behind him. He hurriedly walked towards the roads and alleys outside the courtyard. In the flash, the right shoulder was hot, Quyuan acupoint numb, and the back hurt, and he touched it. But he felt that the hand was wet and hot, and it seemed that it was hit by the spray of tea.
Judging from the aura of the person who took action, he was supposed to be the great cultivation of the elixir. But he thought it was Shen Liancheng. He was shocked and ran forward without thinking. This was the intersection of the T-shaped road, and the alley was very deep, but he was afraid that someone would chase him and could see him. He ran out more than ten feet, and he paused, and then jumped into the courtyard on the left, but he reached the back house of the courtyard.
I looked up at the front house, but saw that the door was half-closed and the room was dark. After hesitating, I quickly rushed to the front of the door. When the energy moved, I poked out that there was no one in the house. Then I flashed in and closed the door lightly.
Generally, the backyard of the mansion is where women live. Luo Xiaoyao smells the fragrance in the house fresh and elegant, so he guessed that he broke into the boudoir of the daughter of the daughter in the house.
He could see things at night and was slightly calmer, so he looked at the furnishings of the room. He saw a screen that was six or seven feet long on the right. There were silk curtains on both sides of the screen, which were opened for more than three feet to connect to the screen. He thought that the east side of the space should be the fragrance of a woman who was sleeping.
There is a long case in front of the north wall opposite the door. On the table are four treasures of the study and porcelain candlesticks. On the left side of the table are two pipas hanging side by side on the wall. On the west wall are a row of cabinets. On both sides of the cabinet are vases more than three feet high. There are scrolls of calligraphy and paintings in the bottles. Three feet in front of the cabinet are placed a small round table with embroidered silk cloth.
Luo Xiaoyao looked around and turned to the window in front of the round table. He was afraid that the person who was hurt was found out. He endured the pain in his shoulder, put away his cultivation energy, poked a small hole in the oil paper on the window, and peeked out with his breath.
Luo Xiaoyao expected that the person who injured him was Shen Liancheng, who was in the realm of the great success of the elixir. When he noticed that someone peeped at the wooden house, he first shot out the tea bowl cover and then spit out the tea in the outlet. Luo Xiaoyao was caught off guard and finally hit the back by the tea sprayed by his mouth.
The window was extremely small, and Shen Liancheng's cultivation level could break through the wooden wall and come out. However, he realized that this was rude and had lost his identity. When he turned around and rushed out of the wooden house, he had delayed three or five breaths, which allowed Luo Xiaoyao to have the opportunity to hide in the courtyard.
Shen Liancheng looked around, but saw that there was no one running around the roofs around him, so he jumped to the ground. But in a few breaths, the person coming would definitely not escape far. He should have sneaked into the nearby courtyard and looked at the courtyards on both sides of the alley, thinking in his heart.
The house on the left side of this T-shaped alley is the house of Zhouzong, the Situ of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the house on the right side is the house of Chen Yanming, the minister of the Secretariat. The owners of both houses are court officials. But I know that it has violated the law for privately breaking into private houses for all generations, let alone official residences. If there is no imperial edict, breaking into privately would offend Longyan Huangwei.
Although Chen Liancheng was worried, he wanted to sneak into the realm of the great success of his elixir and investigate, and he would not be discovered by anyone. Now that the hour of Hai is over, the people in the house should go to bed. If the escaper breaks in, he must be hiding in a place like a rockery in the garden. Although these two houses are large, with their own skills, they can see clearly. When they think of this, they sneak into Chen's house on the right.
Even though I looked up at the roof, I looked around. I saw that there were no lights in each room of Chen’s house and the doors and windows were closed. I thought that everyone in the house had fallen asleep, so I jumped down and carefully checked the gardens, rockery and other places where the walls fell, but I didn’t find it, so I turned to Zhou’s house.
Chen Liancheng jumped last week's front yard and walked through the roof of the hall. But he saw that the door of the main house in the atrium was slightly opened and the light was revealed. The door of the front yard and the door of the downward room were closed, and there was no one in every corner. He rushed towards the roof of the main house in the atrium and listened to him. He only heard a woman's voice saying, "You daughter, you have to hand over this matter to Yanyan and those girls to do it, and he insisted on decorating the medicine himself..."
Another old man heard the voice of an old man and said, "It should be almost midnight. Cough, cough... Ehuang, go to rest early."
Chen Liancheng judged his identity from the old man's tone, and it should be Zhou Zong, the owner of the house. He thought he had some acute illness, so he still had to take medicine so late.
Another crisp and pleasant voice of a woman responded: "Then my daughter will surrender first... The two elders also please rest early, and my daughter will come to greet you tomorrow morning."
The sound of footsteps sounded, and then the sound of closing the door was heard. Chen Liancheng looked down and saw a girl in the corridor under the eaves illuminating the road with a lantern in her hand. She followed her in yellow and turned to the hallway and headed towards the backyard.
Chen Liancheng cated and rushed across the roof to investigate the backyard. He saw the girl bringing the yellow-clad woman into the main house of the backyard. After a while, the lights in the house lit up, and another woman's voice was heard, "Yan Yan, tomorrow morning, ask the housekeeper to go to the medicine shop on the street and take three more medicines according to the prescription prescribed by the imperial doctor in the palace."
"Yes, I have written it down. Miss. Please take a break early. I have surrendered." Then I saw the girl who called Yanyan and went to the ear room on the east side with a lantern.
When the woman in yellow closed the door, Chen Liancheng jumped over to the roof of the back house and leaned over to listen. With his cultivation, he could naturally judge the number of people in the room from the sound of breathing. However, when he heard the sound of only one person walking in the room on the east side, it was clearly the woman in yellow and the girl Yanyan, while the west side of the ear room was silent.
But thinking that the person I was chasing was not hiding in the house, Chen Liancheng stood up, looked up at the garden on the west side of the backyard, and looked downwards, looking at the rockery, flowers and other corners in the garden, but saw a tabby cat in the bamboo forest on the courtyard wall. He jumped to the roof of the study house in the front courtyard, leaned over and listened, and then fell into the front courtyard garden, and looked through them carefully, but there was no trace of anyone. He only heard a few cats crying in the backyard garden, and then there was a sound of opening the door. Chen Liancheng hesitated for a moment, but left the house after a straight line.
Chen Liancheng was extremely arrogant and did not want to go back to investigate, but he missed the opportunity to capture Luo Xiaoyao. It turned out that Luo Xiaoyao was hiding under the round table in the yellow-clad woman's room.
When Chen Liancheng Zong reached the roof of the atrium, Luo Xiaoyao, who had been peeking through the window, was discovered. In shock, he heard the sound of the door closing from the vestibule. He must have been the person living in the house who came back and hid under the round table in the room.
He knew that the person who pursued him was the great cultivation of the elixir. Even if he was separated by the walls and tiles, he could still find out the existence of aura. However, he was afraid that after the owner of the house came back, the person who pursued him could find out the breath of two people in the room, and then he got into the table and held his breath. Even his heartbeat suddenly paused, as if he died. This was naturally because he was accustomed to the "Taichu Heart Sutra", he could make no qi produce qi, and no qi enters no qi.
While holding her breath, she closed the door after hearing the woman and her maid's words. As the footsteps moved, the candlelight in the room became darker. The woman was already walking into the boudoir separated from the screen. But she thought that as long as the woman was not discovered by the woman, she would be able to hide it from the person who pursued her, and her mind would be sure.
After a while, the woman said to herself, "Huh? It's strange, the doors and windows have not been opened, where has Huhu gone? Meow, Huhu..."
Then the lights became brighter, and the woman came out of the boudoir with a candlestick. Luo Xiaoyao complained secretly. At this time, he knew that the reason why the door was half-closed when he sneaked in was because the cat raised by the woman ran out.
At this time, it was unknown whether the person chasing him would leave, but when the woman was chanting to herself, if the person chasing heard it, it would be a bad idea. In the midst of anxiety, the footsteps were getting closer and closer. I thought that the woman was going to look for it under the round table. Luo Xiaoyao was even more anxious, but when he heard the cat cry "meow, meow" outside the room, he heard the woman chuckling, put the candlestick on the round table, turned to the door, and opened the door, "Huhu, why did you run outside, hehe..."
With a "meow", the cat screamed softly, probably because it was picked up by the woman. The cat's voice was very sweet.
Then the sound of closing the door sounded, and the woman put down the cat, came to the table, took the candlelight and walked towards the fragrance boudoir. Luo Xiaoyao had to breathe at this time. Seeing the woman leaving, she was very happy and slowly relaxed her breathing. However, she was afraid that the pursuer would not leave, so she wanted to hold her breath again. However, the cat ran under the table and saw Luo Xiaoyao hiding under the round table. She suddenly kicked her legs backwards. In frightened, the cat opened her eyes suddenly, "Meow..." with a low growl, the cat paused behind her, and looked like she was about to pounce on her.
The woman lifted the curtain when she heard the sound, but when she saw Luo Xiaoyao coming out from under the table, she was so scared that she covered her mouth with her hands and exclaimed. Luo Xiaoyao was afraid that her shocked voice would attract the pursuit. She resisted the pain in her right shoulder, held up her right fist with her left hand to greet her, and said softly: "Miss, don't be afraid, I have no intention of offending..."
The woman saw that he was not bullying him in front of him, but gave him a polite explanation first. She calmed down her hands that were covering her mouth and whispered: "Huhu..."
The cat heard the call and meowed, quickly rushed into the woman's arms. The cat's eyes were still staring at Luo Xiaoyao. The woman hugged the tabby cat, stroked the cat with her right hand, slowly retreated into the boudoir, stretched out her right hand, touched the dressing table next to the window in the boudoir, but picked up a jade hairpin, pressed against her slender neck, and whispered: "Who are you? Why did you break into my room?"
Luo Xiaoyao, with the candlelight from the boudoir, could see clearly the face of the woman in yellow in front of her. She saw that the woman was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with her slender eyebrows as the moon, her rosy nose and red lips, her face was clearly unpainted, but she was as white as jade, with a clear and graceful look under her high bun, with a dignified and elegant temperament. On the melon-shaped face, her beautiful eyes were three points of fear and seven points of absoluteness. I think if Luo Xiaoyao bullied her, she would have committed suicide by thorning her neck.
But when Luo Xiaoyao saw her actions, he could see that she was a virtuous woman. He quickly took a step back and whispered: "I was chased by the evil people. I had to avoid entering the mansion and hid in the girl's boudoir for no reason. I hope I can forgive me."
At this time, I guess the person who was chasing me was far away from this house, so I decided to hear the sound, so I dared to explain slowly.
"Wicked man? Who is the evil man?" The woman in yellow had beautiful eyes circulating, and she looked up and down at Luo Xiaoyao, her eyes full of suspicion.
Luo Xiaoyao was wearing a night-walking clothes. If he said that his outfit was suitable for the wicked people like the thief and the adulterer at night.
Luo Xiaoyao followed the woman's eyes and looked at his clothes. He knew that the woman was misunderstood. He was young and did not want to be considered a thief. Besides, he was a beautiful woman of the same age. He couldn't help but smile and explain with a wry smile: "The junior sister in the lower house taught Liu Zhenyi, the commander of the Longwu Left Army, and was captured by him by revenge. She wanted to rescue her... so she dressed up like this."
From the woman's behavior, he could tell that she was a kind person, so he told her bluntly.
"Ah?" The woman in yellow was a little stunned, then smiled again, and put down her right hand holding the jade hairpin. "It turns out that the evil man Liu Bin was asking the junior sister to teach her a lesson. Okay, good, if the little girl can learn martial arts, she will definitely beat him up all over the ground, hehe..." But she smiled brightly.
It turned out that Liu Zhenyi's son Liu Bin had married a wife and took concubines, and still liked to ask about flowers and willows. He relied on his family's power to bully others. This time he was beaten by Xiao Muyun, which was a great pleasure. Some people said that it was widely spread. Zhou's house was only one street separated from the Longwu Army's official yamen, and the guards in the house were familiar with the soldiers on duty at the front of the yamen. The woman in yellow heard about this.
To be continued...