the enlightener says

"Can you get out?" Qin Ke's heart moved. Although this Ding'an city is very big, if it is a bird cage, who is the bird locked in the bird cage?

"The family is strictly controlled." Cai Yan shrugged, but Qin Ke still couldn't imagine what kind of family would make him a prisoner in this Ding'an City, "It's a lantern festival tonight, and I can't even come out. If it weren't for..." He didn't go on, he just thought of how he looked when he slipped out of the house, and couldn't help but chuckled.

I don't know if my "substitute" can still hold on now?

He secretly put on his eldest brother's clothes, and pretended to be going out to visit friends in the dark. Maybe the concierge Jin Bo was already jumping at this moment?

It's just that the big brother's clothes are really too big, if it weren't for wearing a few layers of thick shirts, it really wouldn't be able to hold it up.

He couldn't help laughing, and said vaguely: "Drink, drink."

While drinking, the two kept talking about things outside Ding'an City.

Cai Yan was very curious and thoughtful, and asked about every detail. It seemed that for him, as long as it was outside of Ding'an City, it was full of novelty.

Qin Ke thought that tonight was probably the first time that he was dry mouthed when he spoke besides reciting "Five Classics Annotations", but seeing Cai Yan's excited expression, he didn't have the nerve to stop talking.

He has walked outside three times in his life, the first time was when he left his hometown due to the famine caused by the Mohist family during the war, and the second time was when he left Daoxiang Village and headed south all the way to Jianye City.This time I came to Ding'an, it was the third time.

Therefore, compared to Cai Yan who has never left Ding'an City, Qin Ke does have a lot of experience on the road.It's just that Cai Yan's questions were too many and too detailed, probably because he had read a lot of travel notes and regional textual research, and he couldn't answer some questions at all.

Fortunately, Cai Yan didn't think there was anything wrong, but changed to a different question and continued to ask. Cai Yan's indifferent attitude made Qin Ke a little blush. With Gao Yishui around, he can be read as an encyclopedia , but now without him, he seems too clumsy.

Thanks to Qin Ke, a "drinking friend" who talked with him, the scholars downstairs were relieved. Cai Yan's talent and learning just now were enough to overwhelm the audience. With him, the more they fight, the more they will become laughing stock.

Now that his clear voice suddenly disappeared, the scholars knew that they finally had a chance to shine, and the atmosphere of competition became fierce again.

Cai Yan doesn't care about these things. He didn't come here for some emotional dispute. For him, fun is the real thing. Now that Qin Ke is here, he has something more interesting than lantern riddles. Nothing interesting anymore.

"The wine is gone." But it was about half an hour less, Cai Yan smiled, Qin Ke was about to call Xiao Er to serve wine, but he stretched out his hand to stop Qin Ke, with a playful smile on his face , slowly raised his head, looked at the lanterns that were still hanging high, selected one, and said casually: "The mountains and rivers near the village are different, and it is the word 'green'."

Just as his voice sounded, the noisy Jiuxianju fell into silence again. Everyone thought that Cai Yan no longer planned to participate in the riddle guessing, and everyone was like a rooster whose chest had stopped, and he had to learn it tonight. .

However, Cai Yan's voice broke their wishes again. Mr. Chen on the first floor didn't know the situation upstairs, and his face was gloomy for a while, and said: "It's okay, the previous question, this Cai Yan must have just happened to steal it." The questions in Jiuxianju, so the answers were fluent, and he didn't have an answer for the rest, so naturally he couldn't answer. Now he is answering again, but he finally came up with an answer after racking his brain."

He raised his head, looked at it, and said proudly: "Look, this answer may not be correct. Xiaoer hasn't reported his name yet, which proves that his answer is still biased. It's the green letter."

The scholars around him all nodded in agreement, and their fighting spirit was high again.

Upstairs, Cai Yan's face was ruddy after drinking too much wine, she blinked, looked at Xiao Er with a smile, and said, "Xiao Er, Xiao Er."

"Ah, what?" Xiao Er, who was snoring in the corner, woke up suddenly, and then he remembered that the shopkeeper had specially instructed him to entertain him here, who knew that he had fallen asleep because no one had guessed the riddle for too long.

"The mountains and rivers near the village are different, and the word 'green' is used. Isn't that right?"

The identity of the young man in front of him is not simple. If the shopkeeper knew that he was negligent... Thinking of this, he secretly slapped himself in the heart, and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, regardless of whether the answer was true or not. False right, repeatedly said: "No mistake, no mistake..."

"Don't make a mistake, or it will look like I'm bullying you." Cai Yan grinned.

Xiao Er smiled obsequiously: "Where is it, the young master is so talented, and answering the riddles correctly is just a matter of chance, I admire you."

After finishing speaking, he shouted at the top of his voice, "Young Master Cai answered seventeen questions correctly this round!"

The sharp voice resounded through the Jiuxianju, and the proud expression of Chen Gongzi on the first floor suddenly became gray as if painted with soot. Even the movements of all the sitting scholars paused for a moment. Repeatedly saying: "Here...here again..."

And what happened next was indeed not beyond their expectations. This talented man who didn't know where he came from started to solve puzzles one after another. At this time, no matter how good-tempered they are, they can't help cursing their mothers.

"What do you mean? Are you teasing us? If you have the ability to answer the questions, you can answer the questions, why don't you just answer them all at once? Are you deliberately leaving some time to tease us?"

"That's right, this Cai Yan doesn't seem to be a gentleman, but a villain who has nothing but talent and learning, but has not learned the way of a saint! This kind of person... is full of poetry and books and doesn't know how to be humble. It's really... an insult to a gentleman! An insult Sven!"

Some of them even rubbed shoulders, rolled up their sleeves, and planned to go upstairs to have a good fight with Cai Yan, but they were quickly persuaded by their friends to go back.

There are people here today, if they really go from guessing lantern riddles to fighting with fists and kicks, they may not only lose their status in front of everyone, be punished by their parents, and even their future official careers may be affected because of this. Such a person is really impossible to offend.

Qin Ke, who was also sitting on the railing, heard the noise downstairs, and said helplessly, "Are you provoking them on purpose?"

"Who messed with it?" Cai Yan giggled, her voice was extraordinarily crisp, like a silver bell, but it stopped abruptly. She coughed, took the wine pot that Xiaoer handed over, and simply threw the cup on the ground. gotta smash.

Xiao Er's eyelids trembled, but he didn't dare to say a word after all, and stepped back.

Cai Yan pulled him back, and this force made his body sway twice, so frightened that Qin Ke hurriedly supported his precarious body with both hands, otherwise there would be one more "strike the stars and fall down the building" tonight. "The genius.

Cai Yan didn't care, and smiled at Xiao Er: "Hey, don't leave yet, what about the one that was agreed to win the first prize and give away a jar of 30-year-old wine?"

Xiao Er was stunned for a moment, and said: "But Young Master has not won the first place yet..."

Cai Yan raised her head with a smile, and counted to the lantern: "One, two, three..."

After counting to six, he continued, "Counting the previous ones, how many questions did I get right?"

"47 ways..." Xiaoer said.

"Besides me, who has the most?"

"It's the young master surnamed Yang. He answered 36 questions correctly."

"Then it's over? Even if he answers all the six questions correctly, he won't be more than me. What else?" Cai Yan said with a smile, "It just so happens that today's Lantern Festival went well, so I don't understand. You Serve up that jar of wine quickly, I just want to taste the 30-year-old wine from Jiuxianju..." When he finally finished speaking, he could not help but burp.

"Okay..." Xiaoer hurriedly agreed, and ran downstairs in a hurry. Seeing him like that, he wished he could grow two more legs.

Cai Yan turned her head and said with a smile: "It's not that I provoked them, it's probably because they overestimated themselves, and none of them knew how to write the word "bai."

Qin Ke could only nod his head, thinking that now those scholars all knew how to write the word "负". It is estimated that the people in the whole building are about to hate Cai Yan.

But looking at Cai Yan's relaxed and indifferent appearance, it seems that he really doesn't care much about this matter.

He looked at the still bustling street, the sound of silk and bamboo and the noise of people were still mixed, but Qin Ke suddenly fixed his eyes and noticed something was wrong.

He secretly warned himself to be careful, and slowly turned his eyes, finally, he saw downstairs, a person wearing a black-faced Rakshasa mask was looking up at him.

The eyes of the two met in the air.

Chapter 232 Rakshasa

Almost at that moment, Qin Ke was sure that this person was one of the stalkers!

To fight, or to flee?

In Qin Ke's mind, he didn't know how many thoughts turned in this short moment, but someone grabbed his shoulder suddenly, and he trembled all over. Cai Yan said in a low voice, "Go, go quickly."

Without saying a word, Qin Ke got down from the railing at the same time as Cai Yan, and hurried downstairs. From the corner of his eye just now, Qin Ke had already seen the man wearing the Rakshasa mask pushing away the crowd. He also rushed towards Jiuxianju aggressively.

At this time, Xiao Er happened to be walking upstairs slowly with the jar of 30-year-old wine. This jar of wine is also a rare item in Jiuxianju. What's wrong.

But just as he raised his head, he felt two black shadows flashing in front of him, and he was bumped into a mess. With a light touch, the jar of wine in his hand disappeared.

He grabbed the railing of the stairs vigorously, and managed not to roll down the stairs, but when he thought of the wine in his hand, his liver and gallbladder almost burst. Where did the thief come from?

Turning his head, the figures of Qin Ke and Cai Yan flashed away at the corner of the stairs, and he was stunned again.After being stunned for a long time, he choked out a sentence: "Is it possible that this master likes the feeling of robbing?"

Qin Ke didn't know that Cai Yanxi didn't like to rob, but he didn't forget to take the jar of wine before he left.

The two soon arrived downstairs, but Wu Ting rushed in wearing a Rakshasa mask, and bumped into a scholar in the middle. But Wu Ting is a person who is responsible for cultivation, this collision is like an egg hitting a stone.

With a "bang", the scholar fell on the counter, fainted without even turning his eyes.

"Hey! You don't have eyes! You bumped into someone!" A scholar saw the situation and wanted to stop him to reason, but he was born as a bandit in Wuting, how can he sit down and talk about it calmly?Seeing that Qin Ke was about to leave, he slapped the scholar in front of him until his eyes were full of gold stars, and then kicked him directly into the counter, causing the wine jug on the shelf to fall down immediately.

There was a sudden chaos in Jiu Xian's residence.

"Grandma's." Wu Ting had a grim expression on his face, "Stop me?"

He passed the fainted scholar lying on the ground, and approached Qin Ke.

Qin Ke turned around, raised the Bodhisattva sword in his hand, and blocked it in front of Wu Ting. Wu Ting punched out, exhaling almost like an arrow, and then a force rushed towards Qin Ke's Bodhisattva sword.

Qin Ke snorted and suffered from being dumb. Knowing that this man's cultivation was far superior to the bandit leader he killed that day, he took two steps back.

And Wu Ting, wearing a Rakshasa mask, rushed forward again like a fierce god.Qin Ke snorted, the Bodhisattva sword in his hand didn't come out of its sheath, but flipped over, and used the scabbard to meet Wu Ting's fist. This time he used seven parts of his strength. back again.

"Go in!" Cai Yan shouted, and with his hand pulling hard, Qin Ke was pulled into the door, and then the door bolt fell down with a bang.

"Huh..." Cai Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead, and he took a breath holding the wine jar in one hand, but the seemingly unbreakable door obviously didn't intend to give them a chance to breathe. There was a loud noise, and Qin Ke's heart tightened. Wu Ting was kicking the door with his foot at the other end. It is hard to say how long this door bolt is thick or not.

Qin Ke and Cai Yan looked at each other, they both knew that this place could not stay for long, and it was obviously not the first time for Cai Yan to come here, so she stretched out her hand and pulled Qin Ke and said, "This way."

The kitchen in the backyard of Jiuxianju was cooking. A cook came in through the back door with a firewood in his arms. His eyes were covered by the firewood in his arms. When he heard the sound of the door being slammed, he thought someone was tied outside and smiled. Said: "Wait a minute! Wait a moment! I'll open the door for you!"

Cai Yan bumped into it head-on, firewood flew all over the sky, and even after Qin Ke said "I'm sorry", the clerk sat on the ground, staring blankly at the two figures flashing by behind the door, wondering how well this was acting ah?

He became angry, and said loudly: "What are you doing!" As soon as the words fell, Wu Ting kicked open the gate of the backyard, the Rakshasa mask was ferocious, striding towards the back door, when he reached the door, he paused for a moment, coldly He glanced at the guy.

The clerk shivered for a moment, pointing at the door with a trembling finger, and said, "I...I said they..."

Wu Ting snorted and went directly through the back door.

In the alley, Qin Ke and Cai Yan fled hand in hand. Although Cai Yan ran in front, it was clear that Cai Yan did not have any cultivation background. She was already out of breath after running like this, and Wu Ting was chasing after her. Don't give up, after his whereabouts are exposed, he really looks like a rakshasa with a lingering ghost.

He has a strong figure. During the short time when Qin Ke just fought against each other, he can probably judge that his cultivation base is at the level of cultivating tendons. Maybe he is about to break through that threshold, but his cultivation base is still higher than his. , it may not be difficult to win the battle.

He looked at Cai Yan, who was dragging him forward, who was struggling to run, and said, "I can beat him, or I'll fight here."

"Nonsense, of course I know you can beat him." Cai Yan gasped as she ran, "You just matched two moves with him, and he shot with all his strength. You obviously still have some strength left. I'm not blind, I'm afraid It's not him!"

"It's not him?" Qin Ke said while running, "Who is that?"

"My brother!" Cai Yan coughed, and the two of them passed a corner, "I ran out secretly, he saw me downstairs, you can't beat him, we have to run quickly...we took advantage of the crowd If he blends into the crowd, he won't be able to catch me."

Qin Ke was silent for a moment, feeling a little confused in his head...

His brother?What does his brother want to arrest him have to do with this man wearing a Rakshasa mask behind his back?Obviously this person came here following her, but Cai Yan also said that his brother was chasing him. Could it be that this person is his brother's subordinate?

But that still doesn't make sense.

I met Cai Yan after being followed. Could it be that Cai Yan's elder brother has the ability to predict and predict that he will meet Cai Yan in advance... Besides, I didn't commit any crime by drinking with Cai Yan...

There are too many things to think about for a while, but Wu Ting behind him has already caught up. Qin Ke let go of Cai Yan's soft and white hand, and turned his head suddenly. The stick generally split the past.

Wearing a Rakshasa mask, Wu Ting couldn't see his expression, but his exhalation and vocalization were very obvious. At the moment when Qin Ke Bodhisattva's sword hit his head, he let out a loud shout and stomped his legs on the ground suddenly. There was a loud noise as the soles of the shoes rubbed against the ground, and he stopped himself from moving forward in such a violent way, and at the same time his hands were stretched behind his back.

He usually uses a war knife, which is of the same standard as Mulan's.

It's just that when entering the gate of Tang Dynasty, you have to go through the gate control, so it's not convenient to carry, so you can only store it in your luggage temporarily.

But even though he couldn't carry a sword, it didn't mean he didn't know how to use anything other than a sword.

His saber technique originated from Lu Ming, even though he had discarded the original weapon because of the exquisite technique of this saber, but he still remembered that when he was a bandit leader, he held two hatchets to chop When he was a human being, the ax would make a clear cracking sound when it chopped on the human bone, and then he pulled it suddenly, which could tear off the entire shoulder blade of the human being.

Just as he thought of this, his hand touched the ax stuck in his belt behind him, and with a single stroke, two axes fell into his hand.

Chapter 233 The noble son under the hatchet

With a sound of "duh", Wu Ting's ax slashed on Qin Ke's scabbard, both of them were startled, the power wrapped in the weapon made their palms ache a bit.

Qin Ke frowned, but Wu Ting didn't care about the pain at all, he stepped forward, raised the ax in the other hand high, and slashed hard at Qin Ke's head!

At this point, he was too lazy to listen to Lu Ming's instructions, but said coldly: "Whoever you are, if you killed our brother, you should leave your life here today."

brother?Qin Ke's eyes showed a bit of weirdness, the ax was almost on top of his head, but he didn't panic.

Mulan not only taught him the Qijin Sword, but the countless days of beating had also taught him to make the most correct judgments when facing danger. far away.

When he wronged his legs, his whole body seemed to be half short. With the turning of the bodhisattva in his hand, his sword hilt pointed at Wu Ting's lower abdomen, and suddenly "jaked" down!

The ax was about to reach Qin Ke's arched back, but Wu Ting knew that he couldn't swing the ax any longer.

His ax holding Qin Ke's scabbard could no longer stop Qin Ke's anti-customer thrust, and the distance between Qin Ke and him made this thrust as fast as lightning.

Maybe he can hack Qin Ke to death.

But Qin Ke's poking was enough to scatter his dantian, not to mention whether he could practice in the second half of his life, I'm afraid it would be difficult even to do heavy work.

My life is more valuable than yours!

Wu Ting's face was ferocious. Although the bandits were desperadoes, those who died were other people's lives. He was not stupid enough to exchange his whole life for Qin Ke's life. For a person like him, if he didn't have cultivation , I'm afraid even the beggars on the street are inferior, and how could that master have the leisure to look at the beggars more.

Naturally, he did not continue to slash his ax down, but let go of Qin Ke's scabbard, stomped his legs on the ground, and jumped back a distance of one foot. The whole person paused on the ground before stopping. Hold your own figure.

Qin Ke stood up straight, looked at Wu Ting quietly, heard the sentence "Kill our brother" just now, finally thought about something clearly, and said: "Who are you? Are you a bandit?"

"I'm your father!" Wu Ting stared at him.

"Who is the father?"

Suddenly, a clear male voice came from the corner of the alley, answering him instead of Qin Ke.

Qin Ke felt an uncontrollable exclamation from Cai Yan behind him, and a man in a robe slowly walked out from around the corner. He was tall but not vulgar, independent but not out of the ordinary.

Such a person obviously cannot be cultivated by a small family.

It's just that there was a wry smile on this man's handsome face. He looked at Cai Yan who was turning around and ran away, and shouted, "Little...Cai Yan! Don't run away! I'm not here to catch you!"

In the past, Cai Yan could be said to be doing his own way, indulgent and uninhibited, but now when he heard the man's voice, he seemed very honest. He turned his head, with a flattering smile on his face, and even a soft tone, and said, "Brother..."