Sir, this sword is a keepsake

Xuanzhou is located in the southernmost part of Liang State, bordering on the Lingsnake Swamp in southern Xinjiang. This season is a humid one.This evening, the pattering rain began to fall again. The vendors on the street took their stalls home quickly, and occasionally passers-by with umbrellas carefully avoided the puddles on the ground and hurried past.

It's only when you arrive, and it's getting dark, making people feel bored and dejected.According to the past, the prefect of Wu in Xuanzhou should have been on his way to Yixiangju.He was going to spend the night with his favorite diva, to comfort the difficult and long rainy night.

But right now, he was waiting in fear at his own house, unable to go anywhere.It's just that he neither dared to complain nor had the leisure to complain.

Outside the promenade, the rain is drizzling.The raindrops fell on the flower garden that the servant took care of, on the thin leaves and new shoots of the plane trees, on the green tiles of the roof, and on the stone steps in front of him.

The rustling disturbed him.

"Come on someone!"

A nursing home in the corner of the courtyard seemed to have never heard of it, staring at the rain in a daze, and the housekeeper who was directing the servants to move the flowers rushed to the prefect of Wu with the hem of his clothes.

"What time is this, and I still have the mind to play with these flowers and plants!" Wu Zhifu's frustration and fear all vented on the housekeeper. He actually didn't know what to do at this time. The first time he received the letter One reaction was to hide quickly and run as far away from the mansion as possible, but the people above wanted him to wait here.

five days ago.

"Master Zhifu, Your Majesty has read your report, and His Majesty specially ordered me to welcome guests here with you on that day."

"Welcome guests? Could it be that you want to come here to catch a turtle?" Wu Zhifu clearly remembered that the letter mentioned asking the Holy One to send troops to support him. Although he didn't remember such a young general in the court, seeing the other party strolling in the court was definitely not something to take lightly generation. "I don't know how many soldiers my lord has brought, and where are they placed?"

"My lord, you are joking," the man said with a smirk, "Army is used for war, and the other party just wants to come to your house to sit for a while. Wouldn't it make people look down on me as a leader by making such a big fight?"

"This..." Prefect Wu couldn't agree more, and even doubted whether the information he reported was accurate, "The other party is..."

"I don't know what the magistrate wants to say?" The man interrupted him, his eyes revealed a warning: "Could it be that you, as the magistrate of a state, are so afraid of these barbarians?"

"Of course not." Prefect Wu categorically denied it.

"That's good. The Holy Majesty is still counting on the magistrate to take good care of the guests for him, so as to promote my great Liang Guowei. You don't want to run away." Wu Zhifu felt guilty for a while, and his thoughts were immediately seen through by this person.

He coughed twice, and suddenly remembered that he didn't know the identity of this person.

"I don't know who you are?"

The man smiled slightly, and said apologetically, "Scout of the Shenwu Pavilion, Ba." But obviously, it wasn't that he forgot to tell, but that he didn't want to say more.

Wu Zhifu was stunned, although he was far away in Xuanzhou, but he also knew that the Holy Majesty had been using the Shenwu Pavilion Twelve Scouts a lot recently, so he must not offend him.Just, what the hell kind of name is that?

If you ask him what he really thinks, he will definitely curse: What is Shenwu Pavilion?Comparable to three thousand elite soldiers?But he asked himself, if those evil things came, he would really have to rely on this seemingly capable person.

"That... Your Excellency will also be here..."

"Of course, I won't go anywhere until I see them."

After all, the man floated up to the roof without warning, just like when he came, he went away like a ball of ink.

The fifth day passed quickly, and February [-]nd is today.Wu Zhifu looked up at the sky, and suddenly remembered that today is the dragon raising his head.

The letter from Spirit Snake Marsh only said that it was tonight, but did not say what time it was.

Wu Zhifu served as the magistrate in Xuanzhou for three years. As a frontier, Xuanzhou is not as war-torn as Liangzhou, nor as severe cold as Cangzhou. However, there is a strange neighbor—Spirit Snake Marsh Country.

It is said that the people of Spirit Snake Marsh don't like to move, so they don't like to take the initiative to trouble the people of Qi country. However, they are cruel and bloodthirsty by nature, so they can't be reasoned out by common theory.

There used to be a city gate on the south side of Xuanzhou City, but ever since the previous magistrate disappeared outside the south gate for no apparent reason, the south gate has been sealed with mud bricks, preventing even a fly from entering.Every rainy night, sheds will be set up on the city wall, and a row of torches will be lit, which is as bright as day.The night when the previous magistrate disappeared was a bleak rainy night.And the people in the city are spreading rumors that the previous magistrate is either dead or taken away by snakes.

Coincidentally, today is another rainy night.

Wu Zhifu paced back and forth tirelessly, and half an hour passed. Seeing that the sky was completely dark, twice as many lights were lit in the mansion as usual, but he was frightened by his endless imagination.

He was already afraid of strange powers and gods, and he rarely even went to the south of the city. Now, he actually wants to wait for the people from Spirit Snake Marsh to attend the appointment!

"No, no, that person won't come!" He began to yell incoherently, "Come on quickly! Get some help, we're leaving the city and going north now!"

He wants to escape.The butler was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly made arrangements.A few days ago, the prefect of Wu had already sent the family's wife and children elsewhere, so right now there are only guarding soldiers and some servants left in the mansion.Soon, the housekeeper returned.

"Master, from the back door?"

Prefect Wu didn't answer, as if he suddenly realized that there was another person in the corner.

It was the guard just now.

"You, you stay here, when they come, just say we are in the back room." Wu Zhifu ordered, it seems that this can delay the time.

Before he finished speaking, he ran to the backyard, but the guard ignored him at all.

The guard was still looking at the rain, as if he was looking at a strange thing. He heard chaotic footsteps in the backyard, and then someone pulled the carriage out, someone hissed lightly, someone pulled out the heavy latch, and the door creaked There was a sound, and then there was a short silence——

Everyone in the backyard was stunned, because there was a carriage parked outside the door, and it seemed that they had been waiting for a long time.

In the sound of rain, there was a barely audible sigh.There was no driver on the carriage, and when the door opened, the carriage slowly drove in, and the timid servants scattered away from it.

What would be in the carriage?

Prefect Wu didn't want to think about it, the moment the carriage passed by him, he tried to get out of the door as fast as he could in his life, but just as he stepped across the threshold and stepped out of the courtyard, he heard a soft hiss from the carriage behind him.

The hiss made the scalp numb, and a chill ran up the back of the back and up the top of the head.Everyone trembled suddenly.No matter what is sitting in the car, they can be sure that it is definitely not a person!

In the blink of an eye, there was an ear-piercing sound of cracking silk, and a huge bowl-like scarlet snake head came out from the back of the carriage, with its bloody mouth open, and went straight to the back of Wu Zhifu's neck!

The fangs were about to touch it, but there was a sudden pause, as if being blocked, the snake's body trembled violently, the snake's head tilted, and it shrank back with a sharp hiss.

Although Wu Zhifu was not bitten by a snake, he tripped over something and fell down inside the door, still in shock.

The guard in the front yard listened for a long time. At this moment, he muttered with a strange expression, then picked up a bamboo hat from the ground, put it on his head, and walked unhurriedly towards the backyard.

"Hugh must be rude to the magistrate."

A man's voice could be heard very clearly in the drizzle, as if it had cut through the rain curtain and penetrated directly into people's ears.

An extraordinarily tall figure appeared outside the door, and everyone was startled, but as the visitor gradually approached in the dark, they could see clearly that this person was wearing a bone cap like a horn on his head, and came walking barefoot in the water.

The complex silver ornaments in front of the horns cast shadows on the arch of his eyebrows, making his eyes hidden in the shadows, making it difficult to see clearly.The black hair was not even touched by the rain, and it was still as dry as usual.In addition, the man's clothes don't look like Liang Ren's at all, his upper body is bare, only the chest and back are wrapped with linen, and a wide long skirt around the waist drags the floor, like a half-length robe.

As he stepped in, a string of hollow bone chains swayed slightly on his chest, shining an ominous red light.

Such an image, on such a dark rainy night, is really indescribably weird and evil.

The man passed the prefect of Wu on the ground, but he didn't even look at him, and walked straight to the carriage.Wu Zhifu noticed that there was a red snake tattooed on the man's ankle, with the head of the snake facing upwards, winding all the way to the calf.

The man's face is extremely handsome, and his age cannot be seen.Under the washing of the rain, his skin showed a satin-like luster.

He frowned at the damaged rear of the carriage.There was another soft hiss in the carriage, but twice.He lifted the door curtain with his hand, and in the carriage, there were snakes, one big and one small at both ends, twisting and twisting.The red snake was the giant python that attacked Wu Zhifu just now, and the green snake was as small as a child's arm.

"Tsk." The man uttered an unhappy syllable, "Who allowed you to have heat in other people's homes? Just a little more, and I will take the snake eggs you left in the nest to refine."

Seeing the two snakes spinning and loosening each other, the man looked at the prefect Wu who had stood up against the wall.

"You must be the prefect of Wu, otherwise they wouldn't be so excited."

Although Prefect Wu didn't understand the direct relationship between his identity and the excitement of those two beasts, he automatically ignored it, "Your Excellency is... the High Priest of Spirit Snake Marsh?"

A month ago, Wu Zhifu never expected that one day the High Priest of the Spirit Snake Marsh would send a letter to him, saying that he would come to visit him. Unexpectedly, right now, the big devil himself, who made everyone in Qi fear, was looking at him with a smile.It is said that he is very good at witchcraft...

The man nodded, "Please don't take offense at what happened just now." He paused, looked at the guards and servants who were all ready to go, and his smile grew wider, "Why, I didn't agree, I'm coming to your house today as a guest Is it?"

Wu Zhifu paled, "I, I, I... that, shall we go in and sit?"

"Please." The man paused, then apologized: "My carriage is broken, and I don't know when I'm leaving, can I give you a new one?

Prefect Wu immediately nodded.He keenly grasped the key message: "When you go".Seeing that this person is also courteous, and he just stopped the monster, he thought: Could it be that this person is really just here as a guest? "

The two walked in tandem, with a group of courtyard guards sparsely following behind them. Suddenly, a person walked out in front of them.

It was the nursing home wearing a bamboo hat.Prefect Wu immediately said: "Don't give way?"

The nursing home didn't say a word, and stepped out of the way.

"This is..." the high priest looked at the guard's hat with interest.

Wu Zhifu saw that the high priest was interested in this ordinary guard, "It's my guardian."

"But tired of the rain?" the high priest said softly.

"Tired, tired of the rain?" Although the prefect Wu didn't understand for a while, he urged the guard, "The high priest is asking you something, tell me quickly!"

"I'm not tired of the rain." The guard lowered his head and said dryly.

The high priest spoke briskly, "Take off the bamboo hat, let me have a look." He seemed to have made up his mind to stay on the guard for a while.

The moment Nuyuan raised his left hand, the bamboo hat seemed to be cut by an invisible sharp weapon, and suddenly split in two. In the gap, a dark yellow cloudy eye was fixed on the high priest.

A look of surprise flashed across the high priest's face. The moment he looked at this person, his body suddenly became paralyzed.

The High Priest's pupils narrowed into a line, like the pupils of a snake, staring at the guard who controlled him - that was a broken and dry face.

But the real attack came from the prefect Wu who suddenly rose from his side, or in other words, Ba.