Dragon Fate of Shan Hai Ji

In the early morning of April [-]th, after breakfast, Du Ruyuan proposed to discuss tactics for the next three rounds of selection.The three rounds of screening are martial arts, strategy, and character. There is still half a month before the first screening. The most important thing at present is to collect information in various ways.

Le Yue assigned people to scout for information.The team of Lin Qing and Luo Ling was responsible for investigating the detailed background and martial arts level of each candidate.Du Ruyuan and Shang Jing were in charge of collecting and scrutinizing various tabloids such as Jianghu Miscellaneous News and the recent movements of the Xijun Palace.His Royal Highness Ying Ze is an arbitrary person, which team he likes to play with.

Le Yue put his arm around Zhao Yuan's shoulder and said: "Zhao Yuan and I go out of the hotel every day to pay attention to the situation in and around the city. Listen to street rumors and so on." Du Ruyuan and Luo Lingzhi said so Very appropriate, no objection.Only Lin Qing is not very happy, she really wants to go shopping on the street with Le Yue every day.If she said she wanted to change, Zhao Yuan would definitely change with her, but Zhao Yuan is really not suitable to do things with Luo Lingzhi to investigate the background and martial arts, and she is not the guardian of Le Yue, so she can't do it for her. Intervene in what Zhaoyuan should do.Can only agree.

In the morning, they acted according to their assignments.Ying Ze chose to stay in the room, eat snacks and sleep.

Zhao Yuan kept in mind what Le Yue wanted to investigate the secret incident with him last night, and waited patiently after leaving the hotel with Le Yue, before he asked in a low voice: "What did you say you wanted to investigate yesterday, and what should I do?" check?"

Le Yue rubbed his chin: "I don't have a clue about the show yet, just take a look at it."

Le Yue took Zhao Yuan for a stroll in several streets, and then arrived in front of the North City Gate.There was still a long line of people waiting to enter the city gate. Le Yue and Zhao Yuan lingered near the city gate for a while, when a guard came over and asked, "Why are you staying here?"

I feel a little bored in the city and want to go out for a stroll, but what does it look like here?strict?Now, do I need any paperwork token to go out? "

The guard said: "Anyone in Jiuyicheng can come in and out at will, just because there are too many people entering the city recently, Fang will check a little bit when entering the city, so as to distinguish whether they are here to participate in the relative meeting, but this will not be the case when going out of the city."

Le Yue thanked the guards, then turned back to the hotel to collect the tokens.

The place where the hall is in charge of issuing the card talismans is called Zhikezhai. After entering the gate, in the wing room on the left side, Le Yue and Zhao Yuan arrived at the gate smoothly after being guided by the guards of the hall.

There were two or three people dressed as clerks sitting in Zhike Zhai, Yue Yue explained his purpose of coming, and those people asked his name and room number of his residence, and gave him an iron plate.

Le Yue asked: "There are several people in the next row, do all beauties get a badge?"

One of the clerks replied: "No, the young man and his entourage only need this amulet to enter and exit the city gate."

Le Yue thanked him, took Zhaoyuan out, weighed the iron plate, and looked at it repeatedly: "It really is so."

Zhao Yuan asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Le Yue whispered, "I'll talk to you when I get out."

Zhao Yuan followed Le Yue out of the hotel, looked around on the street, sat down in a secluded corner, took out the iron plate, and said to it: "This plate is the number used in the barracks. Card."

The iron plate is engraved with "A" on one side and the word "Twelve" on the other side. It is wearing an ordinary hemp rope, which is old-fashioned.

Zhao Yuan was still bewildered, and Le Yue explained that when soldiers were recruited by barracks in the world, they would issue such signs to identify themselves.

Zhao Yuan was puzzled and said: "Then why did you give us this kind of brand?" Le Yue changed the brand: "It's deliberate, or it's possible that it can't be produced temporarily. Also, Zhikezhai's documents are very question."

Zhao Yuan tried his best to recall the appearance of those people, and said hesitantly, "You think they are too dark?"

Le Yue knocked on the table in admiration: "You are very good, and you have made progress! You are right, those people are dark-skinned and thin, but they look very strong, with protruding hand joints and tendons, and thick calluses. The sharp-eyed judgments of Xia Yueren for many years are definitely in the hands of martial arts practitioners."

Zhao Yuan said: "Then why did they pretend to be documents and issue this kind of sign to us?"

Le Yue stroked his chin: "This is the suspicious point!" He pushed the refreshments in front of Zhao Yuan, "Eat more, let's go out of the city to have a look when we're full."

There were still a lot of people at the north gate of the city, Le Yue and Zhao Yuan went straight out of the gate and walked a few steps along the base of the city wall.They walked to the countryside again and came to a secluded woods. Le Yue looked around and said to Zhao Yuan: "Can you ride the clouds now and go to the sky to see the situation of Jiuyi City and its surroundings?"

Zhaoyuan nodded, changed back into a dragon shape, lay down in the grass and recited the Cloud Riding Mantra. Today, after Ying Ze's teaching, its magic has been improving, and it can already pull out a slightly larger cloud. Lie on it, just right It was tightly blocked by the clouds.

Zhao Yuan patted the tail of the dragon, raised it vigorously, and then floated to the sky above Jiuyi City, looking back and forth carefully.After it got down, it took the leaves and turned them into a piece of paper, and drew the layout of Jiuyi City on it with its claws.

Jiuyi City is a square shape, with gates in the east, west, north, south, and nine main streets in total. The county palaces and residences are all in the north of the city, the markets and post houses are mostly concentrated in the south of the city, the east of the city are mostly mansions of rich households, and the west of the city are mostly ordinary people. To live in, the houses are small and small, there are many alleys, and the access roads are not very clean.

Zhaoyuan's memory is very good, even the winding streets are drawn out.

Zhaoyuan marked the points on the walls of the four city gates: "The walls of these places are guarded by soldiers, but I was not found in the sky."

There are mountains in the north and west of Jiuyi City, while the east and south of the city are flat, with only wilderness, farmhouses, farmland, and bushes. There is a river flowing through the west of the city. Le Yue asked, "So, are there soldiers guarding around Jiuyi City?"

Zhao Yuan shook his head.It checked carefully and found nothing unusual.

Le Yue frowned and thought for a moment, then put the blueprint into his arms.

Zhao Yuan asked: "What are you doubting?"

Le Yue said: "I'm wondering if there's something else to be said about the Princess's recruitment of relatives."

Zhaoyuan and Le Yue didn't return to the hotel until it was dark. Lin Jing, Luo Lingzhi, Du Ruyuan and Ying Ze were all in the room. When talking to each other about today's harvest, Le Yue first talked about what he had seen and heard today, and then how he felt. Very strange.

Lin Jing said: "The prince and his wife of the west county were killed to prevent people from the north county from sneaking in by recruiting relatives. That's why they have to guard against the outside of the city everywhere."

Du Ruyuan agreed with Lin Jing for the first time: "It's strange to join Xijun without any defenses."

Le Yue didn't say anything more.

Lin Jing and Luo Lingzhi talked about today's investigation. The young master of Nangong, Nan Gongling, had already arrived and came to pay a special visit to them. Le Yue was not there at the time, but Nangong Ling saw Du Ruyuan, and it was more rewarding. After talking for a long time, she was satisfied. gone.

In the middle of the night, Le Yue couldn't sleep, got up and walked out of the room, and climbed to the top of the veranda in the atrium to watch the moon. But it was Luo Lingzhi.

Luo Lingzhi sat down beside him, and said, "Brother Yue, do you have something on your mind? After leaving Ziyang Town, I saw that you were depressed."

Le Yue looked up at the moon, and said for a while: "Brother Luo, I have something in my heart that I haven't said. Lin Jing and Zhao Yuan don't know, but you should know."

Luo Lingzhi was also silent for a moment, before he slowly said: "We are all friends, would it be better if you told Shizi Du about your life experience?"

Le Yue said: "If I tell Brother Du, it will drag their father and son to be convicted, but if I join and stay in Xijun, I really don't know what to do."

More than ten years ago, there were only three kings in the world, Anshun Wang Heshi, Zhongyi Wang Bailishi, and Xiaoxian Wang Dushi.

Among them, the Du family was convicted of treason, his relatives rebelled, the national teacher Fengwu saved the life of Du Junwang in front of the late emperor, Du Junwang regained his title after the rebellion of his relatives.

Later, the Baili family rebelled, and King Anshun ordered to crusade. Bai Zhen and Zhou Li, Bailiqi's lieutenants, surrendered and beheaded Baili's family for meritorious service. The loyal king Bailiqi's fief was divided into two and rewarded to Zhenxi King and Heping Beiwang. Xiaoxian King Du's title was changed to Dingnan King, and there was a capital in the east, where the emperor lived, so King Anshun did not change his title.

Not long after, the first emperor died of illness, and Emperor Chongde and Shao ascended the throne. He Shao was weak and sick, and spent his daily energy managing the government affairs.

This old story is well known to the world.

Luo Lingzhi said: "If the matter investigated in Ziyang Town is indeed correct, the relationship between that matter is secret, and Bai and Zhou Zhou probably didn't know about it at the time."

Le Yue said: "I understand, but ever since I learned the truth in Ziyang Town, I feel that the king of Xijun's fate today is not worthy of sympathy. I clearly know that Sun Ben came to Xijun not to marry the princess, but to take revenge , and just stood by and watched."

He raised his right fist and smashed his forehead: "The crime should not affect the children. I really violate the way of chivalry by doing this, but I am at a loss and don't know what to do."

Luo Lingzhi said: "We are mortals, neither immortals nor saints. It is difficult to let go of hatred in our hearts, but we still have to act cautiously and calmly, so as not to be biased for a while and make mistakes by mistake. Brother Yue, do you think that King Anshun is You killed your father and enemy, you have no power and no soldiers in your hands, how can you deal with the prince who has the power all over the world?"

"... Princess?"

Luo Lingzhi said: "Sun Ben is a general, if you form an alliance with him for revenge, he will definitely help you."

Le Yue patted his clothes and stood up: "I must take revenge, but I can't use such low-key methods. If I really want to become famous in the future, I am ashamed to raise my head after doing such a thing."

Luo Lingzhi got up, and smiled: "Then Brother Yue has already reached a conclusion? It was right or wrong to stand by and watch Sun Ben's matter before. In fact, he didn't want to see Princess Xi suffer innocently."

Le Yue was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Brother Luo really can enlighten people, I admire you."

Luo Lingzhi smiled and said, "Thank you, thank you."

Le Yue looked up at the sky, the galaxy was shining brightly, and a big stone was put down in his heart, much more relaxed than before.

Behind the roof not far away, Lin Jing firmly held Zhao Yuan down to prevent him from struggling.

Zhao Yuan whispered: "Let's go back." "It's not good to eavesdrop. Lin Jing raised a finger to her lips and said in a low voice: "What are you talking about!Knowing what difficulties Le Yue has, isn't it what you should do to help him solve his problems?For the sake of duty, what's the point of eavesdropping. "

Zhao Yuan could only shut up obediently.

Lin Jing added: "I, I came to see Luo Lingzhi, nothing else."

Zhaoyuan looked at her helplessly: "I remembered a newly learned word, called wanting to cover up."

Luo Lingzhi and Le Yue turned around, Lin Jing hurriedly pressed Zhao Yuan's head, and shrank back behind the roof.

Fortunately, Le Yue and Luo Lingzhi went back to their room to sleep, jumped straight into the courtyard and left, and they were not found from the beginning to the end.

Le Yue returned to the room, lay down lightly, and found that only Ying Ze was sleeping soundly beside the pillow, and Zhao Yuan was nowhere to be found, so he couldn't help but feel a little strange.Not long after he lay down, he felt the familiar Rudong at the corner of the quilt. It was a round little dragon that gently pushed the quilt away and got in. It still smelled of night fog and dew, and finally lay on the edge of the pillow.

Le Yue was a little amused, closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep.

When having breakfast the next day, Le Yue rushed out to investigate the matter again, eating quickly, Zhao Yuan tried his best to keep up, and when Le Yue put down the bowl and chopsticks, he swallowed the last mouthful of porridge and wiped his mouth with a towel.

Du Ruyuan, Luo Lingzhi, Lin Jing, and Ying Ze were still eating slowly or wolfing down. Lin Jing stared wide-eyed at Le Yue and Zhao Yuan pushing the bowls up: "Why are you so active in investigating?"

Du Ruyuan said: "Go out for a stroll in the middle of the night and your appetite will be better in the morning."

Le Yue chuckled twice, didn't say anything, and dragged Zhao Yuan out.

Lin Jing watched them go out, wondering: "What is Le Yue doing these two days? It's so mysterious, is there really something wrong with Princess Xi's recruiting relatives?" She looked at Du Ruyuan, "Hey, Du Shudai, you are also the future after all. Counselor, do you see anything?" Du Ruyuan shook his head pretending to be deep and said, "Don't say it, don't say it." Shang Jing followed him and shook his head.

Lin Jing was very depressed.

Then to Luo Lingzhi, Luo Lingzhi said with a calm and noble expression: "I don't dare to speak out about rumors that have not been verified."

Lin Jing was even more depressed.

Zhao Yuan followed Le Yue out of the hotel and came to the street, and said to Le Yue in a long-term manner: "I'm sorry, I was eavesdropping on your speech last night. I just want to help you, don't be angry." It's very telling In a loyal manner, he only talked about himself, and did not confess Lin Jing.

Le Yue said: "Yeah, I know." Yesterday you crawled back to bed sneakily, it's no wonder you didn't guess.

Zhao Yuan observed his expression, and said cautiously: "We came out these few days, do you want to investigate Sun Ben?" Find out what conspiracy Sun Ben is going to use for revenge, and then stop him.

Le Yue said: "It's useless to investigate him, I already know what tricks he will use."

Sun Ben's revenge on the Bai family should be to marry the princess first, use the soldiers of the Bai family to destroy the Zhou family, take back what his father should have, and then tell the princess that your father is my father-killing enemy, and I am Come for revenge.Let the princess die in surprise and grief, then go to defeat King Anshun, and finally go to fight the emperor.

This kind of plot often appears in storytelling passages or dramas, and it is not new at all.

Zhao Yuan listened to Le Yue's analysis with admiration, and finally Le Yue concluded: "So Sun Ben has never been in the scope of my investigation. What I want to investigate is other conspiracies."

Zhao Yuan didn't know why, so he let Le Yue drag him and went straight to the west of the city.

The west of the city is full of ordinary people’s residences, and there are small shops on the main street. Le Yue went to a tea shed and drank two large bowls of tea with Zhao Yuan for five Wen. How is the business recently? The stall owner said: "Originally, the prince was murdered, and people in the city were in panic. They all said that there was going to be a war. They rushed to Linxian or Nanjun to flee. It was difficult to do business. Fortunately, the princess later recruited a husband, but people turned around. There are too many, and the business is also good, I hope the princess can find a brave [general] who is invincible this time."

Zhao Yuan followed Le Yue out of the hotel, and went to the street. After wandering around, Le Yue led him into a tea house and sat down in a secluded corner...

Le Yue walked around the small streets in the west of the city again, the houses were all peaceful, and nothing unusual was seen.

Le Yue stayed in the west of the city until it was almost dark before going back, visited various shops, and finally brought back a few catties of crispy baked scallion oil mille-feuille.

Back at the hotel, Lin Jing pulled Zhao Yuan aside and asked what it and Le Yue had found today.

Zhao Yuan replied: "I didn't find anything, I just wandered around. Old Le Yue asked some questions about the recent situation in the city."

Lin Qing said to herself: "Could it be that Le Yue wants to find out if Beijun has taken the opportunity to sneak into the city and take advantage of this opportunity to completely destroy the power of the Xijun Prince's Mansion?"

Zhao Yuan thinks it is very possible, but he is not sure.

When it was time for dinner, Lin Qing turned to Le Yue. She and Luo Lingzhi went to check on Sun Ben today. He has also been elusive for the past two days. She followed him and saw that he entered an inn in the south of the city, but he was only doing odd jobs to make money. Chatting with guests, nothing special.

"However," Lin Qing said happily, "when I came back, I found something interesting! The abandoned girl we met in Ziyang Town turned out to be a female disciple of the South Sea Sword Sect. She is now in the West County Prince's Mansion .Because her master, Mrs. Luluo from the South Sea Sword Sect is a distant relative of the princess. The princess specially invited Mrs. Luluo here, probably to protect her own safety."

This was an accident, Le Yue remembered that Mrs. Luluo had appreciated him a lot in the Martial Arts Conference, and wondered if she still recognized him.Mrs. Nangong, together with Mrs. Luluo, the three beauties of the Jianghu in the past, you can actually see two of them in this martial arts conference.

Du Ruyuan interjected: "I've heard a rumor, but I don't know if it's true or not. The king of Xijun has a handle on King Anshun. Therefore, although Xijun is the weakest, relying on King Anshun's fear, he also fought ten times against Beijun and Nanjun. several years."

Le Yue thought in his heart that it was because of this that Beijun dared to poison the king of Xijun to death without any scruple.Who would want to be threatened by others for the rest of his life, King Anshun would definitely stand on the side of Beijun, wishing that the West County palace would be finished soon.

April [-]th is coming soon. In the past few days, Le Yue and Zhao Yuan ran around and visited the whole city of Jiuyi.

On the evening of the [-]th, as soon as Le Yue walked to the gate of the hotel with his sore legs, he saw a galloping horse galloping from one end of the street.

The horse rushed straight to the gate of the hotel with smoke and dust, Le Yue pulled Zhao Yuan to avoid it, the man on the horse was dressed in brocade clothes and dressed as a servant, reined in the horse ten feet in front of the gate, took off the bow and arrow behind him, Draw the bow and draw the string, and with a bang, a feathered arrow tied with a letter is firmly nailed to the door plaque of the hotel.

The man in Jinyi raised his voice and said: "Listen, people in the hall! I am Li Xuan, the school lieutenant of Huben Camp in Beijun, and I am here to remind you by the order of Wang Ping and General Zhou Li of Beijun. Those who mobilize the army will be punished as treason according to the laws of the dynasty. Anyone who has no official position and interferes with the affairs of the government will be punished for the crime of rebellion, or all the families will be executed. If anyone dares to commit crimes knowingly and despise the court, All the soldiers and horses under the command of General Pingbei will do their best to eradicate the chaotic party and rectify the law for the imperial court!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the feathered arrow on the door plaque suddenly trembled and shot out backwards. A figure flew out from the door. With his sleeves raised, he rolled around the feathered arrow, raised his hand to catch it, and turned around and fell to the ground.

It was Wen Ji, the young master of the Wen family.

Wen Ji looked at Yu Jian and said, "I'm just a grassroots man with no official position. I came to Xijun just to ask for relatives. I take the liberty to ask the military master for advice. In broad daylight, with a weapon in hand, I intend to destroy the official mansion and disturb the civilians." , According to the law, is it a crime?"

The Jinyi man looked at Wen Ji for a moment, then sneered: "It seems that this is the so-called Jianghu man, and he is good at it. I was just ordered to pass on a message. If you feel that you have violated the law, you can go to the Yamen to report to the official. The letter has been brought, and I Say goodbye first."

A group of people had already gathered in the surrounding open space, and many people from the hotel also came to the door.Le Yue and Zhao Yuan watched the cloud of dust behind the horse gradually go away, Wen Ji took a few steps forward: "That man didn't hurt the two of you just now, didn't he?"

Le Yue said, "No, I just ate some dirt."

Wen Ji took the arrow and looked at it again: "Is this called Xia Mawei? It's better to give it to the county prince's mansion as soon as possible."

Le Yue clasped his fists together: "Then Mr. Wen, hurry up, we will go first." Saying goodbye, he entered the hotel together with Zhao Yuan.

The rest of the candidates who rushed to the gate to watch also turned back in twos and threes, arguing a lot.

"Beijun is so arrogant!"

"Moving out of the imperial court, who can scare? We have been walking in the rivers and lakes all year round, which one is not scared!"

"The king of the county was poisoned to death, and even came to provoke him. If the court tolerates it, then it is called no king's law!"

A voice beside Le Yue said: "It seems that Beijun's injustice has caused anger and resentment. Even if you can't be a county horse, you should do your part for Xijun. Brother Le, don't you think so?"

Le Yue turned his head, and it turned out that the person who spoke was an old acquaintance, Master Nangong.

Young Master Nangong was filled with righteous indignation at the provocation of Captain Beijun just now, and Young Master Wen preempted the opportunity to stand up against the enemy, which made him feel even worse, and he spoke righteously and sternly, eloquently.It wasn't until after returning to the residence that Le Yue's ears became quiet.

The registration for the county horse election will close on the [-]th.