Forced Marriage [Cultivation]

Xicheng Jiangxing was four years old, at the end of August, the sky was dry and the things were dry.

This afternoon, Gu Baitang came down from the Yanming Hall, passed the Qinzheng Gate of the Law Enforcement Palace, and met Wen Yu, the chief disciple of the Master of Ceremonies who had just come out of the palace.

Wen Yu saw him and waved to him enthusiastically: "Brother Gu!"

Gu Baitang stopped, and was quite surprised to see Wen Yu running over with an enthusiastic expression.He and Wen Yu had no contact with each other, and they occasionally met on the road, and they were nodding acquaintances at most.

"Brother Gu, you just got off from Yan Mingtang?"

Wen Yu gave people the impression that she lived up to her name, without any pretensions, gentle and warm, like a piece of jade in the rough.As the Chief Disciple of the Academy of Ceremonies, he has always been modest and gentle, unlike Qin Zun of Fu Mo Tang who is ruthless and domineering without leaving room, nor is Gu Baitang of the Law Enforcement Palace who is cold and repulsive to others.However, this person's cultivation is actually powerful, and he is not inferior to Gu Baitang and Qin Zun.It's just because he is low-key and modest, not as sharp-edged as Gu Baitang and Qin Zun, so the world knows that there are Gu Baitang and Qin Zun in Xicheng, but few know that there are gentlemen.But in fact, in the hearts of the elders, they admired Wen Yu even more, and many elders felt that Wen Yu was quite like the former head teacher of Xicheng.

Gu Baitang nodded and saluted him, with a serious face: "That's right."

"Dare to ask where Brother Gu is going now?" Wen Yu asked directly, but it was rude.Gu Baitang looked up at him, but didn't speak.

Wen Yu hurriedly smiled apologetically, "Brother, don't get me wrong, I want to ask Brother Gu for something, so I want to know if Brother has time, can you take a moment to talk?"

Gu Baitang naturally had something to do at the moment, he was busy going back to the imperial dining room to find a steamer, and he was also busy making dough, he had promised Jiang Suxing a while ago that he would make steamed buns for him.Since the two had a relationship, Jiang Suxing has become more and more adept at handling him.Especially that one mouth was raised so tricky, one day he had to eat Beijing cuisine, the next day he wanted to eat Sichuan cuisine, the world was far apart, Gu Baitang had to cook him food in different ways every day.

Because of another dispute in the city a while ago, Gu Baitang was busy with official duties, and he hadn't been to Yunding Zongmen for almost five or six days.I just finished the matter today, and I am preparing to go back to the imperial dining room to prepare, so as to meet the beautiful woman in the dead of night.

However, Wen Yu has always been unfamiliar with him, so it must not be a trivial matter to talk to him today.Gu Baitang thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement.When the two came to the pavilion in the heart of the clear water lake, there were disciples walking for a hundred miles around, and they could see the two talking, but they couldn't hear what they were talking about.

Ever since the "Southern Cultivator" turmoil a year ago, the disciples in the city did not dare to gather and talk in private, for fear of being convicted of a conspiracy.Especially for some famous disciples, it is even more important to keep one's self clean and act alone, so as not to get involved in it.Even the heads of the various palaces need to be more cautious when discussing matters.

"Junior Brother Wen, just speak up if you have anything to say." Gu Baitang stood still in the pavilion, and said to the person opposite.

But Wen Yu said softly: "The world is really changing, it's hard to predict..."

He suddenly sighed, but Gu Baitang didn't understand what he meant, so he just looked at him fixedly.

Seeing that he seemed puzzled, Wen Yu couldn't help laughing and said, "Brother Gu is standing still in the center of the vortex, it's really a good demeanor."

"If you have nothing to do, I will leave." Gu Baitang is not good at communicating with people, he always speaks directly and doesn't like to go around.

Seeing that he was actually annoyed, Wen Yu laughed even more: "If you meet me here, you won't be afraid of others going to Elder Huo and complaining that you and I conspired here? Is it because of the Nancheng faction?"

So that's what he said.Even though Gu Baitang was dull, he knew what he was going to say.

In the past year, there has been a lot of noise in the city, and every disciple is in danger. If he is a little careless, he will be involved in the Nancheng monks.This was naturally caused by Huo Bingqing's iron-blooded policy against the monks in Nancheng, but the monks in Nancheng were not idle, and it was also true that they were causing troubles and sowing discord in the city.

Some time ago, a small leaflet appeared in the city, which analyzed Huo Bingqing's beginning and end with reason and evidence.It is said that since Huo Yan, there has been no headmaster in the west city, because since Huo Yan's next headmaster, Ming Zheng, the real power in the west city has gradually shifted to the elders.Mingzheng is just over 200 years old, why can he be the head teacher of Xicheng?That's because the group of elders in the Nascent Soul stage refused to obey anyone, so they chose Ming Zheng who was young, obedient, sensible, and respected the elders.Mingzheng came to power at a young age, so naturally he couldn't control such a huge West City, so he had to consult these elders for everything.When the elders disagreed, Mingzheng dared not offend anyone, so he could only deal with it, and only wanted to be a peacemaker.He probably felt that it was not good enough for such a peaceful old man not to offend anyone, so Mingzheng suddenly "exploded his own soul" in his prime, and another little boy appeared as his successor.Undoubtedly, all this is a conspiracy.

According to the analysis on the leaflet, Mingzheng was killed, but he didn't want to die so simply. Before he died, he decided to give the person who killed him some incentives, so he made a will to appoint the successor of the head teacher to be his apprentice Jiang Suxing .Those who harmed Mingzheng would naturally not let Jiang Suxing go, so they decided to secretly execute Jiang Suxing who was still on mission in Changle at that time, and even found an actor with a similar face to Jiang Suxing to pretend to be Jiang Suxing, in order to hide the truth.But Jiang Suxing's fate was fatal, not only did he not die, he also ran back to Xicheng on the day of Mingzheng's burial, inheriting the position of head teacher.In desperation, the pusher behind him had no choice but to send Jiang Suxing to the Yunding Sect, in the name of helping the little head teacher break through his cultivation, but in fact he was grounded.

Since then, the power has fallen, and the head teacher of Xicheng has been reduced to a puppet.In order to eliminate dissidents, the real rulers began to use the nonsense of "Nancheng monks" to eliminate dissidents in the city. In short, one sentence: Those who follow me prosper and those who oppose me perish.

Although the words Huo Bingqing and Law Enforcement Palace did not appear on this flyer, the content was clear: Ming was killed by someone, Jiang Suxing was also someone else's puppet pawn, and the elders seized power and seized power, which is the source of evil.Huo Bingqing and the Law Enforcement Palace were standing on the cusp of the storm. Huo Bingqing arbitrarily used his power to eliminate dissidents, and turned the good Xicheng, the fairy head of the cultivation world, into a dark and bloody officialdom like the secular world.The Law Enforcement Palace is described as a private institution that eliminates dissidents and does all kinds of bad things for it!

For all the content on this flyer, Gu Baitang naturally scoffed and didn't believe it.He has been dealing with this matter for the past few days, tracking down the originator of the flyer, and found out that the parent list of the flyer came from Tianzhu Peak, and it was led by a few disciples in the city who had no hope of cultivation and only did opportunistic things all day long. After copying several copies, they were distributed everywhere.

In order to take care of the overall situation, Gu Baitang's method of handling this matter has been carefully considered.He first ordered people to collect these leaflets, and clarified the rumors above in public, so that the disciples would not be bewitched by them.Then he picked out those disciples who distributed the leaflets and asked them to admit their mistakes in public, but neither beat them hundreds of times nor drove them out of the West City, but ordered them to go to the Ancient Sword Book Pavilion to copy three months ancient books.As for the mother list of the leaflet, Gu Baitang handed it over to Yan Mingtang's other chief disciple to go to Tianzhu Peak to supervise and interrogate it himself.

In this way, the impact of this incident was basically minimized, and only then did the disciples who were silent in the city now have a chance to breathe a sigh of relief.Therefore, regarding Wen Yu's obviously cautious attitude at the moment, Gu Baitang frowned slightly, and said: "You are the chief of the Academy of Ceremonies, and I am the chief of the Law Enforcement Palace. Handing over things between the two palaces is a very normal thing. There is nothing to be afraid of." ?”

"Brother, if you don't believe me and stay here for a while, someone from your Law Enforcement Palace will probably come." Wen Yu said firmly.

Gu Baitang was a little angry. In order to prove that Wen Yu was worrying, he simply lifted the hem of his clothes and sat on the stone bench: "I don't believe in this evil."

Wen Yu also said: "Okay, then I will accompany Brother Gu to see if it is so evil."

After all, he sat down on the stone bench opposite.

As a result, more disciples were watching from afar.Gu Baitang frowned slightly, he was afraid that he had fallen victim to Wen Yu's aggressive tactics.The recent chiefs of Yan Mingtang were extreme in their work. In order to curry favor with Elder Huo, they were particularly active in the affairs of the monks in Nancheng.As long as it involved Nancheng cultivators, they would kill a whole bunch of people with one shot, implicating many innocent people.Gu Baitang had been sitting in Yan Mingtang for a long time, so he naturally didn't get along with these people. These people also spoke in front of Huo Bingqing many times, saying that Gu Baitang was partial to the Nancheng monks.Although Huo Bingqing did not impose any practical punishment on Gu Baitang, but judging from his vigorous reuse of these chiefs, he at least has no trust in Gu Baitang.

Now that Gu Baitang and Wen Yu are sitting here, it is really possible that someone from Yan Mingtang will come over in a while.At that time, if everyone came to ask him what the two of them were doing here, it would naturally cause panic among the disciples.

Seeing Gu Baitang's anxious expression, Wen Yu smiled.He said: "It seems that Brother Gu also knows what I said is true."

"What do you want from me?" Gu Baitang frowned displeasedly, "Why do you still have trouble when you know the current situation? Or are you, Wen Yu, also a person who is afraid of chaos in the world?"

"If I really harbor evil intentions, or if I'm afraid that the world will not be chaotic, why do I still sit here with your brother Gu? Push myself to the forefront?" Wen Yu said frankly: "I am expressing my attitude and want to be with you Brother Gu, advance and retreat together."

Gu Baitang looked at him with dark eyes.

Wen Yu looked back at him and said: "Anyone can see that the city is full of troops and horses, and the waves are turbulent. The elders are fighting with the Nancheng monks, but the ordinary disciples in the city will be killed innocently. In this case, everyone is in danger. The chief disciples of each palace Busy with self-protection, I'm afraid of getting into some trouble. Only you, senior brother Gu, can stand up at this critical moment and speak out for innocent disciples. Disciples say in private that senior brother Gu usually kills Gao Leng , with an appearance of rejecting others thousands of miles away, but he turned out to be such a cold, righteous and selfless person."

There was a whistling wind in the pavilion, and Wen Yu's frank confession made Gu Baitang stunned for a while.justice?selfless?If these people knew that he was the reincarnation of the fallen demon Zhou Hui, that he had killed Yue Zhen to keep the secret, or even that he knew the secret of the little head teacher Shuangxiu...would they still praise him so much?I am afraid that another rhetoric will be made up to describe his evil and poison.

"I'm not as good as they boast. It's just that I grew up here, and I don't want to see this place being destroyed. In addition, as the chief of the Law Enforcement Palace, my duty is to act impartially and not favor anyone." Gu Baitang said in a deep voice, his eyes were calm and unwavering.

His lowliness was naturally seen by Wen Yu as modest and humble, and his admiration for him deepened, and he was full of praise: "After all, we are not gods, especially in this big form right now, we mud bodhisattvas can do it." It's not bad to do things with basic impartiality. What's more, you, senior brother Gu, is the head of the Law Enforcement Palace. On the one hand is your senior uncle, and on the other hand are tens of thousands of ordinary disciples in Xicheng. It's really difficult for you to find a balance between them."

Gu Baitang said: "Uncle, he is not on the opposite side of the disciples of the West City. He just wants to understand the monks in the South City and maintain the stability of the West City."

Wen Yu sighed, and said: "I also know that Mr. Huo is afraid that the monks from Nancheng will mess up the west city. But right now, it's not the monks from Nancheng who are messing up the west city..."

These words were so straightforward that Gu Baitang felt chills in his heart.What Wen Yu said is right, no matter what Huo Bingqing's original intentions are, the current chaos in Xicheng, where everyone bows their heads and walks without daring to look at them, is caused by Huo Bingqing himself.

Gu Baitang couldn't help but say a few nice words for Huo Bingqing, but he heard the sound of the brocade robe hunting and the scabbard screeching not far away.

"Look, here we come." Wen Yu rolled up his sleeves, raised his legs, folded his hands on his knees, and smiled as he watched the row of black-clad people walk in.

As we all know, except for the elders in Xicheng who can dress freely, the other disciples all wear white clothes, tied blue foreheads, and black boots; A white cloak.All the disciples in the city are uniformly dressed in this way, and the disciples of each palace are only different because of the color of the waist badges. exception.

And just a year ago, the Law Enforcing Palace set up an "Inspection Office", consisting of [-] disciples of the Law Enforcing Palace, to patrol around the city and strictly investigate anything related to the monks in Nancheng.In order to show the uniqueness and power of this "inspection office", another set of clothing was specially made for them: black clothes, black boots and black foreheads, all in black, but with a red gold inlaid belt, which is particularly eye-catching .A group of people walked around the city without hindrance, as if no one was in the land, so majestic.

Just at this moment, when I saw this pedestrian from afar, the disciples around me avoided them, not daring to approach them.This group of people rushed into the pavilion in the center of the clear water lake, and surrounded Wen Yu and Gu Baitang.

Faced with this situation, Wen Yu smiled without saying a word, and Gu Baitang's face was naturally pretty.He glanced at the leader, and immediately frowned deeply.

The name of the leader is Zhang Huayong, he should be 28 years old this year, he just entered the Jindan period two years ago, and was later appointed as one of the chief executives of the Palace of Law Enforcement.The reason why Gu Baitang remembers this person so clearly is because this person often confronts Gu Baitang everywhere, he will oppose whatever Gu Baitang agrees with, and he will agree with whatever Gu Baitang disagrees with.The reason seems to be that before Gu Baitang lost his memory, Zhang Huayong, who was still in the foundation period, was almost expelled from the West City because of a trivial matter.Gu Baitang can't remember what it was because of such a trivial matter, and others can't tell clearly.But he thought that before he lost his memory, he shouldn't have been such a petty person. Now that he had reached the point of being expelled from the West City, Zhang Huayong must have committed a serious crime and was definitely not a good person.

Zhang Huayong first glanced around the Huxin Pavilion, and then his eyes fell on the two people sitting beside the stone table. He suddenly smiled and said loudly: "So it's the big brother! I heard from the report that There are monks from Nancheng plotting here, so I came here to check, why is it you, Senior Brother Gu?"

He walked over, and it seemed that he recognized the person next to him as Wen Yu, and he was even more surprised: "Isn't this Senior Brother Wen Yu from the Master of Ceremonies? Why are you here?"

Wen Yu didn't even look at him, but with a faint smile, he said, "Can't Director Zhang see it? Today is the Bishuizhou Fish Appreciation Festival, and your big brother and I are here to feed the fish."

After all, he really took out a pack of fish feed from his sleeve, Shi Shiran raised his hand, and sprinkled a handful of feed into the lake.

At this time, a curtain of water suddenly exploded in the lake, and a group of giant golden carps the size of human figures soared into the sky, vying for food.Zhang Huayong happened to be standing in front of Gu Baitang and Wen Yu to see their good looks, at this moment, he was naturally covered by the water splash that soared into the sky, and his heart was chilled from head to toe.

"Look, the fish has come out." Wen Yu's lips curled up, her eyes shining brightly.