Chapter 68 Chasing and Killing
When Ma Xingkong and Luo Xiaoyao returned to Yunzhou with Xiao Yanbei's body, it was when Liu Gongwen brought people to Langu City. He had never expected Luo Xiaoyao to come to Langu, and he and Ma Xingkong had brought Xiao Yanbei's body back.
Liu Gongwen and a group of people from the guards sneaked into Langu City at night, arrested several soldiers and asked about the place where Xiao Yanbei was detained.
When Ma Xingkong and Fan Gongfeng came to Langu City, they were very alarmed. Afterwards, they carried a stretcher out of the city. Many soldiers also knew that among the captured soldiers, there were people who were afraid of death, so they told him that Xiao Yanbei was dead and his body was taken away. As for whom he took it away, they didn't know where to take it away.
Liu Gongwen and a group of experts from the Guardian were half-believing and half-doubted, but they thought that Xiao Yanbei had a noble status, so they discussed and sneaked into the county jail to investigate, but were found by the ancestral family of the yamen, and the crowd started fighting.
During the melee, Liu Gongwen took advantage of the chaos to escape. He was already shocked and suspicious. Even though he was treacherous, he could not think of who would take Xiao Yanbei's body away. He guessed that it was someone from the Xiao family who took it away, but he felt that it was impossible. The reason why he poisoned Xiao Yanbei was to gain a foothold in the Khitan, so he secretly sneaked to the Xiao Mansion in Yunzhou to inquire with a lucky mentality.
The Khitan was originally a nomadic people, and had no fixed place to live. After the death of a person, he advocated cremation. Later, after Yelu Abaoji founded the country and became emperor, many places learned from the Han system. After being able to wait for the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, the funeral customs were also influenced by the Han customs and mostly burials, so the Xiao Mansion was also a white cloth hanging door.
In the early morning, Liu Gongwen, who had sneaked back to Yunzhou, was shocked when he saw it. He thought that Zhe Deshou could send Xiao Yanbei's body back, and he guessed that the poisoning was probably revealed. The Liao area was no longer inclusive, so he was thinking about where to escape for a moment, but he thought about the Southern Tang and Northern Han and Liao Dynasty, so he could not go there. After thinking about it, he could only go to Shu.
He was greedy for wealth and honor all his life, and never thought of hiding in the mountains and rivers. As soon as he thought, he decided to escape to Shu. At this time, the sky was getting brighter and the city gate was open. He was afraid that the people of the Xiao family would also look for him everywhere, so he wanted to find an inn in Yunzhou City and wait until it was dark before planning.
After Ma Xingkong brought Xiao Yanbei's body back, he rushed to Youzhou, hoping to inform Xiao Siwen and Zhuo Wu, and asked Xiao Siwen to send someone to settle Liu Gongwen first and ask him to ask about the situation, but he did not expect that Yelu Zongwu had sent Liu Gongwen and others to save Xiao Yanbei.
But after learning about the situation in Youzhou, he guessed that if Liu Gongwen was a poisoned person, he would take the opportunity to escape. So he and Zhuo Wu rushed to Langu first, but in Yingzhou, he met a group of guards who had returned from Langu City. After inquiring, he found out that when the masters were fighting with the soldiers of the Zhe family, Liu Gongwen was nowhere to be seen.
It has been predicted that Liu Gongwen is a poisoned person, so Zhuo Wu took Xiao Siwen's order and three of the uninjured guards masters to pursue Liu Gongwen. The guards originally regarded Liu Gongwen as a disaster. When they heard that he was a person who harmed Xiao Yanbei, they all gritted their teeth and naturally looked for Liu Gongwen separately.
In the hall of Xiaofu Hall in Yunzhou, Xiao Muyun's eyes were filled with tears and listened to Fan Gongfeng telling the reason for Xiao Yanbei's death, but he was silent. After Fan Gongfeng finished speaking, he looked at Luo Xiaoyao and walked towards the outside of the hall. Luo Xiaoyao knew that she had something to say, so he followed her to the East Courtyard Garden where Chu Nanfeng and Yan Zhongchang were fighting each other.
Looking at Luo Xiaoyao's left shoulder, Xiao Muyun sighed, "How are you... injured?"
Luo Xiaoyao felt warm in his heart. He knew that she had believed that Liu Gongwen was a poisoner, so he said, "You don't have to worry, junior sister, you will recover after using Jinchuang medicine in a few days." After that, he handed over the "shock armor" in his hand.
Xiao Muyun hesitated a little, took "Shock Armor" over, pondered for a moment, stared at Luo Xiaoyao's eyes, and slowly said, "If Zhe Deshou poisoned him, what should I do?"
Luo Xiaoyao did not expect her to ask this question, and was stunned for a moment and said with a wry smile: "Master Ma has rushed to Youzhou. By then, Liu Gongwen will be stopped inquiry, and the truth will be revealed..."
"I only ask my senior brother, if Zhe Deshou poisons me, should you help me or him?"
Luo Xiaoyao believed in Zhe Deshou very much and never thought that he would be the one who poisoned him. He heard Xiao Muyun ask again and could not imagine what was impossible in his heart. Under Xiao Muyun's eyes, he said, "This... I think it's not Brother Zhe who poisoned him..."
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Muyun snorted coldly, "You go, I...I don't want to see you again." After that, he turned around and left.
In fact, with Xiao Muyun's intelligence, after listening to Fan Gongfeng's story, he had guessed that the poisoned person should be Liu Gongwen, but Xiao Yanbei finally died because of fighting with Zhe Deshou. Although he eliminated his desire to kill Zhe Deshou, he felt a grudge against him.
Her woman's nature, when she remembered the scene when Luo Xiaoyao protected him when she killed Zhe Deshou, she was still unhappy. She thought that the relationship between her father and daughter was not as important as Zhe Deshou in Luo Xiaoyao's heart, so she had this question. When Luo Xiaoyao answered the question that was not, she had the heart to protect Zhe Deshou and turned around and left in anger.
Although Luo Xiaoyao was talented, he did not understand the nature of a woman, and was also a honest person. He did not understand the sweet words of comforting each other. In a dilemma, he just answered according to what he wanted, which made Xiao Muyun even more angry. However, he didn't know that as long as he spoke to help Xiao Muyun, Xiao Muyun would also be angry with him. He looked at Xiao Muyun's leaving back for a moment, stood speechless.
Thinking of Xiao Muyun's words that made him leave, he felt bitter and unbearable, but he felt that he would only make her sad in Xiao Mansion at the moment. He sighed and walked out of Xiao Mansion and asked the servants at the door to tell Xiao Muyun and headed towards Youzhou.
At that time, Liu Gongwen had the Guardian as his backer, and Chu Nanfeng, Wu Wangbo and others could not kill him. Now he poisoned Xiao Yanbei, and the Guardian could not tolerate him, but if Ma Xingkong wanted to take him down, Zhuo Wu would probably take him down.
Thinking about the suffering that the master's wife Ma Xilan suffered for more than ten years and the death of Miao Changning, Luo Xiaoyao naturally wanted to stab Liu Gongwen and several swords to vent his hatred.
When I was about to reach the city gate, I heard a voice coming from behind me: "Prince Luo, please stay..."
Luo Xiaoyao looked back and saw that the person who made the sound was Fan Gongfeng. Fan Gongfeng bowed and said, "I don't know where Mr. Luo wants to go?"
After hearing the words of the magistrate of Lu County, Fan Gongfeng had guessed that the poisoning person should be Liu Gongwen. If he and Ma Xingkong were not stopped by Luo Xiaoyao, they would have fought against the Zhe family army in Langu City and both suffered losses. However, they felt grateful to Luo Xiaoyao and their attitude became very respectful.
Luo Xiaoyao smiled faintly and replied, "I want to go to Youzhou to meet Master Ma, but I wonder what advice Fan Gongfeng has?"
"I dare not, I dare not." Fan Gongfeng hurriedly said: "I rushed to Youzhou all night last night, and the young master had not rested. I may be tired after rushing to Youzhou more than 700 miles away."
Seeing that he was hesitant and did not answer, Fan Gongfeng said again: "Mr. Ma has been rushing to the next two hours. If there is no change, Mr. Zhuo and Mr. Zhuo will bring Liu Gongwen back before tomorrow. The sky is getting darker. Why would Mr. Luo wait for the marquis in Yunzhou?"
Luo Xiaoyao guessed that it must be Xiao Muyun knew that he had left, so he sent Fan Gongfeng to try to stay. He smiled bitterly in his heart. It was already the hour of You, but he realized that Fan Gongfeng's words were quite reasonable, so he thought for a moment and said, "It's good, can Fan Gongfeng have a familiar inn help guide me?"
Fan Gongfeng was stunned. Since Xiao Muyun ordered him to stay Luo Xiaoyao, he guessed that the brother and sister were having a quarrel. He thought it was because of Zhe Deshou, and he sighed in his heart and said with a smile: "Fan has been in Yunzhou for decades, and every inn is familiar with... There is a "Fu'an Inn" north of the General's Mansion, which is quiet. Mr. Luo, what do you think?"
The reason why Luo Xiaoyao asked him for guidance was that he wanted Xiao Muyun to know where he was going, so as not to worry about her. Now she was unwilling to go to Xiao Mansion, because she was not angry with Xiao Muyun, but was afraid of being speechless.
"Then it's a blessing." Luo Xiaoyao nodded and followed Fan Gongfeng to the "Fu'an Inn" north of Xiao Mansion.
After arriving at the inn, Fan Gongfeng took the lead in helping Luo Xiaoyao ask for a second-floor upper room. Knowing that Luo Xiaoyao had not eaten yet, he ordered some wine and food, so he ordered the waiter to send it into the room. After the arrangements were made, he said goodbye to Luo Xiaoyao and returned home.
After using the meal, Luo Xiaoyao replaced the Jinchuang medicine for the shoulder injury. He had not slept for nearly ten hours. In addition, he was a little tired after being injured on his shoulder, so he turned off the light to rest.
When I woke up, I felt comfortable all over, but when I saw the skylight hidden in the window paper, Luo Xiaoyao thought it was time for me, so he got up in his clothes and wanted to go downstairs to call the man in the store to get water and wash.
As soon as he walked out of the room, he saw a waiter downstairs leading a person into the well, or heard the sound of Luo Xiaoyao opening the door. The man looked up and looked at him. Both of them looked at each other, and they were shocked. It turned out that it was Liu Gongwen who came in with the waiter.
Liu Gongwen rushed to Yunzhou from Langu and saw a white cloth hanging on the Xiao Mansion Gate. He knew that his poisoning was probably revealed. With a dark mentality under the lamp, he wanted to hide in the inn first and then escape to Sichuan. He did not expect to meet Luo Xiaoyao. He was shocked when he met him, but he turned around and went back to the front hall of the inn and fled.
How could Luo Xiaoyao let him escape? Without thinking, he jumped onto the roof. Standing on the roof of the front hall, he looked up and saw that Liu Gongwen was already more than 30 feet north, and he jumped onto the street and chased him. At this time, there were passers-by on the street, but when he saw the two running wildly, they naturally avoided them.
The soldiers guarding the north gate saw someone running towards him and some passers-by were hit and flew away, so they wanted to stop him with guns. Liu Gongwen dared not be negligent. He hit him out with a palm, and the soldiers naturally fell down one after another. Although they paused for a moment, they were pulled closer by Luo Xiaoyao. But when they heard a sword roar behind him, a cold air came. In their busy schedule, they did not look back and threw a few "Shenfeng San" back.
Luo Xiaoyao received the help of Wen Yi. At this time, he had reached the level of spiritual consciousness. His cultivation was half a foot higher than Liu Gongwen. When he pulled out the water dragon roar and stabbed it out, he saw a few black spots coming in front of him. Then thin smoke arose. He knew it was "Shen Feng San", so he hurriedly held his breath to avoid it, but he also stopped for a moment. Liu Gongwen had already rushed out of the city. After Luo Xiaoyao rushed out, the distance was more than thirty feet apart.
Liu Gongwen felt that his aura was even more powerful from Luo Xiaoyao's sword energy, and he felt more and more frightened in his heart. When his cultivation was better than Luo Xiaoyao, he was still forced to be incomparable. When he was not "Shen Feng San" in Taiyuan, he was no longer a match for Luo Xiaoyao. Now he was desperately running away. Once he pulled closer, he would throw out a few "Shen Feng San", so that Luo Xiaoyao could not get close to him for a while.
After escaping and chasing, there was nearly a pillar of incense, but when he arrived at the foot of Hengshan Mountain, there was only a lot of "Shenfeng San" left in Liu Gongwen's hand, and he didn't dare to throw it around. Seeing that Luo Xiaoyao was ten feet behind him, he could chase him at any time. He was afraid that the "Shenfeng San" would be used up, so he ran to the mountain.
The mountain road was full of trees. Luo Xiaoyao saw that he could stab Liu Gongwen with one sword, but he flashed into the forest. Liu Gongwen fled in front of him. Although he was panicked, he also took advantage of his unexpected advantage. However, with his skills, he jumped left and right, and he was always in danger, and using the trees to block it, Luo Xiaoyao could not do anything to him for a moment.
Using the trees to escape to the hillside, but when he saw a rock wall four or five feet high appeared in front of him, Liu Gongwen was shocked and rushed to the right in panic. After a while, he arrived at the stone path of the mountain path and was about to break down and escape, but Luo Xiaoyao slashed down with a sword. The cold light hit the sword energy, blocking the way down, and had to turn around and escape to the mountain.
On the left side below is a cliff that is steep and steep, and on the right side is a valley that is sixty or seventy feet high. The idea of jumping down the valley and escaping, but I finally dare not jump down.
Unexpectedly, after running away for half a cup of tea, I turned a small turn. More than ten feet in front of me was a stone stairway that was only about five feet wide. However, if I escaped to the stone stairway and was attacked by Luo Xiaoyao from behind, I would have no way to avoid it. I would definitely fall down the deep valley with a straight cliff. At this time, I regret that I should jump out of the forest and jump down the valley with an incline.
When the stone stairway was about to reach the area that was more than two meters wide, he closed his posture and fixed his body, turned to Luo Xiaoyao who had already chased him. Luo Xiaoyao was guarding against his "Shenfeng San" and did not dare to approach. The two were two meters apart, with four eyes facing each other, and they were concentrating on each other.
Liu Gongwen thought that he could only try his best to make a big splash. His mind turned sharply and threw out the remaining four "Shenfeng San" particles, two hit Luo Xiaoyao's left, and two hit Luo Xiaoyao's front. He used his strength just right. When the two "Shenfeng San" shot on Luo Xiaoyao's left shoulder, they broke. The two spread three feet in front of Luo Xiaoyao's body, and the poisonous smoke suddenly drifted away.
At the same time, Liu Gongwen flashed right, and used a move of "Zhoutian Finger" to attack Luo Xiaoyao's left chest with a quick attack on the "Qihu Point" of Luo Xiaoyao's left chest.
He knew that he was not as good as Luo Xiaoyao at this time, but he saw that there was blood on Luo Xiaoyao's clothes on his left shoulder. He knew that he was injured, so he attacked Luo Xiaoyao's left chest. Two "Shenfeng San" exploded on Luo Xiaoyao's left side. The purpose was to force Luo Xiaoyao to dodge to the right so that he could take the opportunity to escape to the mountain. The other two were broken on Luo Xiaoyao's front, so he naturally prevented Luo Xiaoyao from escaping.
Luo Xiaoyao thought about the silver hair of his master's maid, Miao Changning, and Xiao Yanbei's death. He hated Liu Gongwen to the core and had a desire to kill him. Seeing the poisonous smoke on the left side, he dispersed in front of him. He knew that Liu Gongwen wanted to force him to avoid the right and escape from the road, but he ignored him. He used a move of "fog surrounds the light of the flower", and the sword energy drove away some of the poisonous smoke, blocking Zhou Tian's finger that hit his left chest, and then flashed to the left, and used a move of "Changshade Dark Snow" to slash towards Liu Gongwen who was flashing.
The reason why Luo Xiaoyao ignored the poisonous smoke of "Shenfeng San" was because he knew that its toxicity would only occur after half a cup of tea. He did not dodge and wanted to fight Liu Gongwen within half a cup of tea.
Luo Xiaoyao's move was very dangerous. With Liu Gongwen's skills, he was only half a loss. He could not kill him within a while, not to mention that he had a shoulder injury.
Liu Gongwen was not interested in fighting, and just wanted to seize the road and escape, but he thought that Luo Xiaoyao would dodge to the right. Unexpectedly, he fought to the death regardless of the poison of "Shenfeng San". When Zhou Tian pointed out, his body rushed to the right. As soon as Luo Xiaoyao slashed with a sword, he was like sending his body under Luo Xiaoyao's sword. He suddenly burst into tears and screamed. He stopped and stepped back, but it was too late. His right arm was attacked by the sword energy, and blood was flowing.
Luo Xiaoyao dared not pause. He then made a move of Star Constellation Sword Technique "Ying Bai Yangshou" and hit Liu Gongwen's face. Liu Gongwen couldn't turn around at this time, and his right hand was injured again. He shouted loudly, raised his left hand and flew out of his sleeves. At the same time, his body retreated rapidly, but he never thought that there was a deep valley behind him, but he felt that his right foot was in the air, and he was shocked, but he couldn't stop his power and fell down with his screams.
Luo Xiaoyao saw two white lines attacking, and knew it was a poisonous snake. He closed and raised his right hand, and the sword light rose, and then cut the poisonous snake into several segments. When he saw Liu Gongwen falling down the deep valley, he was delighted and walked quickly into the cliff to explore.
But I saw the cliff wall falling straight down, and the small tree that was nearly ten feet away from the edge of the cliff, which was broken in the waist, was still hanging a piece of rags floating in the wind. The broken tree was nearly two hundred feet deep from the bottom of the misty valley. But I thought that Liu Gongwen should have been crushed to pieces, and I felt relieved.
At this time, he felt pain in his left shoulder, and his luck was used to regulate his breathing, but he felt that his cultivation was only 60% of his energy was left. He secretly called luck. If Liu Gongwen had not been in the deep valley behind him, he would have to deal with more than ten more tricks, and his energy would have subsided, and his life would be difficult to save.
I knew that in a moment, my cultivation energy would fade. I took advantage of the fact that I still had five or six success powers, so I wanted to find a cave to settle down and walked down the mountain. When I was halfway up the mountain, I finally felt weak all over and could not walk anymore. I could breathe a sigh of relief, walked to a big tree on the edge of the mountain road, and fell down against the tree.
Remembering Miao Changning's words, I knew that I had been hit by the "Shenfeng San", only the "Guiyuan Pill" in the Medicine King Valley can be solved. It would take at least twelve hours to recover. I smiled bitterly.
It is already winter now, the temperature on the mountain is very low, and there is frost and ice. If you are usually not afraid of the ice and snow, you are not afraid of it now, but now you are unable to move. In addition to your shoulder injury, Luo Xiaoyao is naturally painful and cold, hungry and sleepy.
But the terrifying poisonous snakes and beasts were there, so they had to force themselves to stare at their eyes and dare not close their eyes. Unexpectedly, the more they were, they became more and more sleepy and fell asleep unknowingly.
I don’t know how long it took, but I felt a heat all over my body, as if there was a fire. When I opened my eyes, I found myself in a felt tent with brocade mattresses covered with blankets. I lay on a short couch covered with blankets.
The door of the felt tent was open. Looking through the door, I saw that it was pitch black outside. It was obviously late at night. In shock, I saw a woman in plain clothes, holding a small bowl in her hand, bent into the door. When I looked closely, it was Xiao Muyun.
Thinking of two felt tents placed in the East Garden of Xiao Mansion, Luo Xiaoyao knew that he was in Xiao Mansion and felt strange. However, seeing that Xiao Muyun was not happy or angry, he did not dare to ask about it.
Seeing that he woke up, Xiao Muyun slowly walked to the edge of the couch, placed the small bowl on the table, squatted down, helped Luo Xiaoyao up, and cushioned his back with a soft pillow. He just took the small bowl, raised a spoon to scoop the yellow millet porridge, blew the heat, and fed it to Luo Xiaoyao's mouth. Luo Xiaoyao felt very hungry, but when he thought that Xiao Muyun was feeding it, he couldn't bear to eat it quickly, and chewed it slowly. A small bowl of rice porridge actually drank a stick of fragrant scenery.
Xiao Muyun was not anxious, and he was calm and allowed Luo Xiaoyao to swallow and chew it slowly. After feeding the rice porridge, he raised the empty bowl, but said nothing, indicating Luo Xiaoyao whether he would give another bowl.
Luo Xiaoyao knew that she was still concerned about her own protection and virtue, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, but she felt that it was the happiest thing in the world to let Xiao Muyun feed porridge. She hurriedly nodded with a smile. Xiao Muyun glanced at him, sighed, stood up, turned around and left.
After a while, someone bent over outside the tent, but it was Xiao Muyun's maid, holding a small bowl in his hand, followed by Ma Xingkong.
Luo Xiaoyao felt a pain in his heart, but he heard Ma Xingkong say, "I heard Mu Yun say that when Mr. Luo wakes up, I come over to disturb him. Oh, you just woke up and think you are hungry, so drink porridge first, and drink porridge first." After saying that, he sat cross-legged on the felt blanket by the couch. His tone seemed to know that Luo Xiaoyao had already drunk a bowl.
The maid felt that it was different from Xiao Muyun. Luo Xiaoyao drank the millet porridge in an instant. After the maid left, Ma Xingkong, who was sitting on the felt carpet, said: "Fortunately, Fan Gongfeng went to the "Fu'an Inn" this morning. After listening to the description of the shopkeeper, he knew that you had encountered a thief. When he arrived at the city gate, he heard the report from the soldiers. He knew that you were chasing the thief and headed north. He was afraid that you would have any mistakes. Fan Gongfeng immediately brought a group of people to pursue..."
"After searching for a long time, the group finally found that a tree broke from the side of the path to Tianling Peak. It was guessed that someone was fighting, so they searched all the way up. It was noon that they found you who were sleeping..." Ma Xingkong paused for a moment and said, "Where did the Liu Bidder go? Let him escape?"
Although Luo Xiaoyao's cultivation energy has not recovered, he slept for a long time and drank rice porridge, he was in good spirits. He moved his body back and told him about the fight with Liu Gongwen. Ma Xingkong heard this and shouted happily, and said with hatred: "Although he was unable to take the head of Liu Bishop in front of Yan Beiling, he finally let him break into pieces. OK, okay..."
"I just rushed back to Yunzhou at the time of Xu. At that time, you were still sleeping. I heard from Gongfeng Fan that you had no cultivation and energy, and your life was worry-free. I just felt relieved... Otherwise, I would not know how to explain to my mentor and Mr. Chu. It would be a blessing."
"Liu Zhe, the younger generation of the 'Shenfeng San', has also suffered once. He will recover his skills after twelve hours. Master Ma doesn't have to worry."
Chapter completed!