Rebellious officials bow their heads

The other party's eyes wandered.

The woman picked up the longbow, touched the flame patterns and scratches on it, and said, "Go back and repair it to the craftsmen, and it should be the same as before."

The young man threw the blood on the sword to the ground, retracted the scabbard, took the longbow and carried it behind his back.

Ye Liuzhou scratched his face, "Can I go?"

"Where are you going? Have you found out the whereabouts of that friend of yours?" The woman asked a series of questions, "Actually, what I'm most curious about is, who are you?"

"Why don't you explain the origin first?" Ye Liuzhou smiled, "Besides, your brother should know who I am."

"What?" The woman looked at the boy in surprise, "Really? How did you know, brother?"

The boy looked aside and didn't speak.

The woman seemed to be used to the other party's attitude, and soon turned to Ye Liuzhou, and clasped her fists with a smile: "We come from Dingjian Villa, and I am Jing Fuling, the inner disciple of old owner Jing."

She put her hands on the young man's shoulders, "This is the son of the old master Jing, the young master Jing Yuan, he has been practicing swords since he was five years old, ten years before I started, so I called him a senior brother. He said clearly enough Alright, so what about you?"

Jing Yuan raised his cold eyes, looked at the man in front of him, and seemed to be waiting for his answer.

The man stared into Jing Yuan's eyes, and said with a careless smile, "My name is Ye Liuzhou."

Jing Fuling had only one sentence, blinked her eyes, and asked: "And then?"

"No more." Ye Liuzhou thought about what the other party said. He seemed to have heard the name of Dingjian Villa before, and seemed to be a well-known martial arts family. "Dingjian Villa should be in the land of Yushui. What is Lingbei here for?"

Jing Fuling shrugged her shoulders, "Don't you know? Tomorrow is the day when General Yuan Xuanfeng, the commander-in-chief of the capital, Jianwei, will hold a three-door martial arts competition. There are gold, silver and jewels in each door, and it is said that the third door also has rare treasures like snow toads."

Ye Liuzhou narrowed his eyes, "The contest recruits the winner?"

Several speculations crossed his mind in an instant, Yuan Xuanfeng must have known about the actions of the Ji family, that's why he recruited some reckless people to fight against the court.

"Are you planning to go to the Yuan Mansion to participate in tomorrow's three-door competition?" He said, "Why don't you bring me along?"

"You want to join Yuan Xuanfeng's command?" Jing Fuling asked meaningfully.

Ye Liuzhou tilted his head slightly, "Yuan's family is as rich as an enemy country. Yuan Xuanfeng has always been known as a virtuous and virtuous corporal, and he has many disciples who follow him. If it wasn't for joining his command and becoming famous, why did you participate in the three-door competition?"

Jing Fuling laughed: "It's just to win a huge bounty. Of course I agree that you want to go with us, what do you mean, brother?"

Jing Yuan had long been impatient with their dawdling talk, turned around and led the horse forward.

Jing Fuling spread her hands towards Ye Liuzhou, "It seems that he has no objection either."

The three of them set off to Yuan's Mansion, and sure enough, some people who were attracted by the Three Schools gathered in front of the gate, among them there were some in twos and threes, there were single knights with swords and few words, and there were also some gangsters who wanted to take the opportunity to sneak into the mansion.

The guards on both sides of the gate stood solemnly in armor and scales, holding red-tasseled spears.

The butler stood aside to record the roster, and sent his servants to lead them into the mansion to rest for one night, and to compete again tomorrow.

The Yuan Mansion is as extravagant as it is said. Along the way, there are pavilions, terraces and pavilions, carved beams and painted buildings, and then you enter the garden and go up the curved bridge. The peaks, caves and valleys circle around in a well-arranged pattern.

The servants led the three of them into an independent and quiet courtyard and retreated. The wing rooms inside were spacious and exquisitely furnished, and there was a hot spring built of bluestones in the backyard, braving warm white mist.

Jing Fuling was greatly moved by his generosity, and as soon as he entered, he rushed into the back room, fell asleep on the bed, and snored after a while.

Ye Liuzhou went into another room, sat and rested for a long time, thinking about how Yuan Xuanfeng would arrange it if he recruited this group of masters, and also worried about Xu Yan's whereabouts. After thinking for a long time without a clue, he scratched hair.

He got up and started rummaging through the cabinets. There were all daily necessities in the room. He asked him to find two small porcelain bottles for healing wounds. He walked to the copper mirror and turned around. He untied the bandages and turned his head to look at the wound on his back. It's not too serious, some scratches are already healing, only the mottled bruises are very conspicuous.

Holding a set of clean robes in his arms, he swept the jug and cups on the table into the tray, walked around the corridor, and approached the hot spring.

As night falls, the scattered ink clouds are dotted with sporadic stars, cold and lonely.

The hot spring is surrounded by low walls, and Xiangfei bamboo is planted inside and outside. It seems to be bent over by the night.

The white mist filled the air, only the sound of water ding-dong, Ye Liuzhou casually threw the linen shirt on the ground, walked barefoot on the wet stone slab, tapped the water with his toes, rippled, and stepped into the water little by little.

The tray contained the wine glass floating on the water, the man let out a long breath, poured himself a drink, his thoughts drifted away, half a jug of wine was drunk, he felt a little drowsy.

He suddenly heard footsteps, he raised his head, and Jing Yuan was walking with his clothes in his arms.

Jing Yuan was slightly taken aback when he saw him, the dragon pattern entrenched on the man's body showed its shape at this moment, half submerged in the water, half entwined around the shoulders and chest with its fangs and claws, like a living thing, glowing with the magic power of calm and majestic .

He turned around to leave, but a man's lazy voice came from behind him: "Why are you running? Don't you want to talk to me?"

Jing Yuan stopped and looked at him quietly.

Ye Liuzhou took a sip of wine, lowered his wet eyelashes, and said, "Although there is nothing to repay, I still thank you for saving me. As for my identity, I hope you will not disclose it to the public, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. But judging by your appearance, you won't talk too much."

The courtyard was quiet for a while, and then the young man's clear voice sounded: "You are Xuan and Emperor Xie Linze? ​​How did that Zhaqing get stabbed?"

"So you can talk, I thought you were dumb." Ye Liuzhou leaned against the stone wall, resting his elbows on the edge, and raised his chin slightly, "This Zhaqing is from the Xie family after a hundred days of birth. , sent to the Qingling Hall to accept the baptism presided over by the national teacher, and use the secret Wenshui bamboo thorns to stab the dragon pattern, but it will not fade with age, but will gradually spread on the skin."

The teenager got the answer and nodded.

"I heard from Miss Jing that there is a painting in your village. The person in the painting looks very similar to me. Is it because of this that you saved me?" Ye Liuzhou asked, "Who is that person?"

Jing Yuan looked at him with dark eyes, and said after a long silence: "That pair of bows and arrows was made when she was here."

"who is she?"

The boy stopped talking again.

Ye Liuzhou couldn't figure out his temperament, so he had no choice but to push the tray in his direction, "Drink some wine."

The tray carrying the wine cups drew two ripples, stopped at the edge of the hot spring, and gently bumped against the bluestone wall.

Jing Yuan squatted down, picked up the flagon and took a sip, coughed heavily after a while, like a hot potato, he threw the flagon into the hot spring, glanced at Ye Liuzhou, who was overjoyed, and turned around quickly while coughing gone.

The wine was boiling in the water, Ye Liuzhou suppressed his smile slightly, got up and went ashore, and put on his robe.

When he woke up early the next morning and came out of the house, Jing Fuling was already sitting at the table eating breakfast brought by servants in the mansion, and Jing Yuan stayed motionless with his sword in his arms.

Ye Liuzhou asked: "Today is not the day to open the three gates, why don't you prepare for the martial arts competition?"

"We... including you now, we are all people from Dingjian Villa. The first day of today is just a bunch of miscellaneous fish. We don't need to do it. Let's go to see the excitement later. Who..." Jing Fuling ate the pastry with big mouthfuls.

"That's good, I'll go out of the house first."

Jing Fuling said: "Are you going to inquire about your friend? Brother, do you want to help him pretend to be a tiger? I think yesterday's effect was very good."

The young man turned a deaf ear.

Ye Liuzhou laughed, "That's not necessary, the deterrent effect yesterday should last for a long time."

As soon as he left, Jing Fuling probed to the boy and said, "Senior brother? Why do I feel that you are angry again?"

Jing Yuan drew out the Chuan Luan sword, she immediately fell silent, the young man lowered his eyebrows and carefully wiped the sword with a cloth towel.

Here Ye Liuzhou came to the gambling house. Unlike last time, there was no noisy place inside, only a bearded man fidgeting and waiting. When he saw him stepping over the threshold, he immediately jumped up from his seat and went behind Ye Liuzhou first. Looking around, he didn't see anyone, so he rubbed his hands together and said, "Well, the coir raincoat didn't come?"

Ye Liuzhou said with a half-smile, "What? Are you looking forward to seeing him?"

"No, no, no..." The bearded man quickly waved his hands.

"Then do I want to bring the news?"

"The Mr. Xu you are talking about, did the ship that was sold on it be in distress? The ship was not sunk by the storm, but only a small half of the people fell into the water. I checked the bodies salvaged along the coast, and I was sure I didn't find them. The person you mentioned, I'm afraid he was sucked into the bottom of the sea, he is already... dead without a whole body." The bearded man carefully looked at his face.

A blue vein appeared on the corner of Ye Liuzhou's forehead, he suddenly raised his hand and grabbed the skirt of the bearded shirt, angrily said: "Full of nonsense—"