Looking to the Thirteen Rivers

The night lights are like beans, the wind blows the veils, and the snow keeps flying all night, and the lights of Wangchuan Hall are lit up again.

There were several maids kneeling in the courtyard, all of them were crying with fear, Qin Zheng finished asking, and stood outside the door and said to Nan Gongmin: "Master Hui, they don't know when the person died, they just listened There was no movement inside for a long time, and it was only later that Yin Qiu was gone."

Nangong Min was standing by the side of the soup pool, her red dress was about to merge with the veil, she looked at the wide open window on the inside with a calm expression, and said, "The water in this pool is still hot, so it shouldn't be long since I walked there. .”

Qin Zheng asked: "Then when will you send someone to chase after you?"

"Later." Nangong Min turned around and said casually, "Just put on a show, don't be so anxious."

Qin Zheng muttered for a while, with a look of embarrassment on his face: "This... this subordinate thinks, it's better to send someone to chase him immediately."

Nangong Min glanced at her: "Why?"

Qin Zheng lowered his head, not daring to meet Nangong Min's gaze, and said in a low voice, "A few believers came to report just now, saying it was... Hufa Wen disappeared too."

Nangong Min paused, raised his eyebrows, and smiled instead of anger when he heard the news: "It seems that Man Jiangxue has really come," she said, and walked out of the hall, standing on the porch to watch Looking at the maids in the yard, he said, "Then you don't have to chase."

Qin Zheng was puzzled.

"What a division of labor and cooperation," Nangong Min snorted, "I revealed the whereabouts of the holy sword to Yin Qiu, so that she could find out for me whether the holy sword is really in Yunhua Palace. Tell her who the flute player is, but Man Jiangxue secretly took Wen Zhaoyu away, she must have a way to make Wen Chaoyu speak."

Qin Zheng said: "In this way, they not only have the holy sword, but also know who Seventh Young Master is. Hierarch, we have suffered a great loss this time."

Nangong Min waved her hand: "No, no." She signaled the maids below to step back, and then said to Qin Zheng, "On the surface, I was tricked by them, but it's not the case."

Hearing her words, Qin Zheng's eyes lit up: "Why not?"

"First of all, the holy sword has been lost for many years. I don't care that much anymore. It's good to get it back, but there's nothing I can do if I can't get it back. It's better to calm down," Nangong Min said, "But I believe that Yin Qiuruo really found it. She will tell me the holy sword, as long as I know that the holy sword is really in Yunhua Palace, I will get it back one day."

Qin Zheng felt that it was reasonable, and asked again: "What about Qi Shao? She has been dormant in Yunhua Palace for so many years. Not only has her revenge not been avenged, but she has not even fulfilled the promise to the leader. Now if she If we were caught by Man Jiangxue and the others, wouldn’t we have lost all our achievements? So the subordinates think that we should report to Qi Shao as soon as possible so that she can prepare early.”

"There's no need for that," Nangong Min smiled amiably, "You don't know much about this person, and she's not so easy to be brought down."

"But Wen Chaoyu will definitely tell who Qi Shao is," Qin Zheng said, "If we don't report the letter, Qi Shao will fall into a passive position, and the holy sword will not be retrieved by then, and we will lose our internal support in Yunhua Palace. Wouldn't this be losing his wife and losing his army? Besides, even if Qi Shao is smart and can think of a way to escape this catastrophe, as long as Yin Qiu gets the holy sword, she will know that the leader leaked the secret behind her back. What if it turns against you?"

"She won't deal with me against anyone," Nangong Min said, "Everyone has selfish motives. She has been holding me back by not giving me the holy sword all these years, so I used Yin Qiu to test her again. What's the matter? Even if she knows, she can understand my intentions. I just use this to beat her. Even if she really feels resentful because of this, she dare not turn against me. She is sandwiched between Ziwei Cult and Yunhua Palace , is still at a disadvantage, she knows in her heart who to please."

Although she said so, Qin Zheng was still a little worried: "But once Qi Shao is exposed... How can Yunhua Palace let her go? Maybe it's because the subordinates are stupid. I really can't imagine how Qi Shao can resolve this crisis."

Nangong Min laughed, and said leisurely: "It's not that you are stupid, I told you, you just don't know much about her." She paused at this point, and then quickly continued, "Don't worry, Xiao Qi For a while, I'm safer than anyone else."

·

In the early morning, before the small town woke up, the disciples in the station had already started their activities.

The camellias had withered a lot, and the snow in the yard was covered with residual red. Two female disciples walked to the soup room with their clothes in their arms. They were about to open the door and enter when they suddenly saw a hunched figure walking from the front yard. over here.

"Senior Sister Cheng got up early today," a female disciple said with a smile, "Is the fire in the boiler room lit? We are going to take a bath."

Cheng Xiu carried a bundle of freshly chopped dry firewood on his back, stooped to pass by them, and said in a low voice, "There is hot water, you go in."

The two female disciples thanked her, and walked briskly into the soup room. Cheng Xiu also followed in, opened the thick curtain and entered the inner boiler room. She took the dry firewood from her back and piled it up. Sitting on the floor in the corner, she took down the wine jug at her waist and drank two more gulps. She stood up again when the sound of water splashing from the soup pool outside was heard, adding firewood to the stove with swift hands and feet.

There was no snow falling in Yao Dingcheng today, and the thin morning light passed through the clouds and shone through the window screens into the house. The light was brighter than usual. Cheng Xiu looked at the boiler with a sleepy look on her face. She rubbed herself like a chicken coop. He was about to pull off the quilt and sleep on the woodpile, but when he turned around, he saw someone beside the door.

——It was a young girl in a clean white student uniform.

Cheng Xiu froze, looked at the girl's eyes, and felt a little impressed, but couldn't remember her name, so she said, "You are..."

"My name is Bai Ling," said the girl, who was unattractive, but she smiled like a young man, "I am the current big disciple of Liuli Peak, and my senior sister used to be from Liuli Peak, right?"

Cheng Xiu subconsciously pulled her hair twice, covered her face, and said, "Well, what do you need from me?"

"It was my master who asked me to come to you," Bai Ling said. "Not long ago, I came to Yao Dingcheng to see you once. After returning home, I talked to her old man. I learned that my senior sister is now living here looking at the boiler. Master is very sorry. , She has a good impression of Senior Sister, this time I came down the mountain, I specially took Master's order to take you back to the palace, she wants to keep you by her side."

After hearing this, Cheng Xiu said silently for a moment: "No need, I was just an ordinary disciple in the past, and I have never had any contact with the Great Elder, besides, it is not suitable for me to stay in the palace in my current state, it is good to stay in Yao Dingcheng, please Tell the Great Elder for me, I have accepted your wish, but I am doing well and don't really want to go back to the palace."

"Is there any disciple who doesn't want to go back to the palace? Senior sister, don't refuse," Bai Ling said, "I know what you are worried about, but don't worry, if anyone dares to make irresponsible remarks because of senior sister's appearance, I, as a senior disciple, will , I will definitely not tolerate it! Sister, have you forgotten? We used to go down the mountain together to perform the mission of the master. You are so good at martial arts. It is really aggrieved to stay here to boil water and add firewood. Don't miss this opportunity."

Cheng Xiu raised her head slightly, looked at Bai Ling again for a while, and said flatly: "Sorry, I don't remember any missions I performed with you, you must have remembered the wrong person, my skill is average, and now it is even worse. I can't even compare to many young people, and I really don't deserve the great elder's dedication to cultivation."

Bai Ling was stunned for a moment, and asked strangely, "Senior sister, don't you remember me?" She took a few steps closer to Cheng Xiu, tilted her head and said, "Six years ago, you were trapped in the ruined temple by the Ziwei sect, and I was the one who led people to rescue you." Well, at that time, the senior sister was injured like that, she almost died, and I took you all the way to the nearby town for treatment. Although I have been busy with business in recent years, senior sister, you have disappeared, the two of us I don't have much contact with you, but how can Senior Sister forget me for saving my life?"

Cheng Xiu frowned, looked at Bai Ling again and again with her eyes hidden behind her disheveled hair, and finally saw that she was suddenly surprised, and said unexpectedly: "You are the one who saved me?" She smiled unnaturally Laughing, "I'm sorry, I was hurt badly at that time, I was in a daze, I didn't see your face very clearly, and after so many years, I had already forgotten it, so please don't blame me, Junior Sister."

Bai Ling then laughed too: "So Senior Sister still remembers?"

Cheng Xiu said "Yes" and said, "I remembered, thank you, Junior Sister."

"Really remember?" Bai Ling bent down, looking at Cheng Xiu with straightforward eyes, "But what I said just now was to lie to you."

Hearing this sentence, the smile on Cheng Xiu's face froze immediately, and his brows showed a bit of coldness in an instant: "Cheat me?"

"Six years ago, I was still in the New Disciple Academy. I was neither a major disciple of Liuli Peak, nor had I ever been down the mountain," Bai Ling said, and immediately approached Cheng Xiu with his sword drawn, and said in a deep voice, "And all of you at that time Most of the people were burned to death in the ruined temple. Although you survived, you were not saved by the disciples in the palace. Not Senior Sister Cheng, who the hell are you!"

Cheng Xiu smiled coldly, and stood up straight under Bai Ling's sharp eyes. She moved her lips, but without saying a word, she raised her hand and struck Bai Ling's sword away with a palm, and followed closely He fled by jumping out of the window, his movements were very neat.

Seeing her skill, Bai Ling was even more sure that her claim of mediocrity was an absolute lie, but seeing that Cheng Xiu had quickly escaped, Bai Ling was not in a hurry, she jumped out of the window slowly, and saw Cheng Xiu When he wanted to climb over the wall, a white shadow appeared on the high wall in time, almost blocking Cheng Xiu's way.

As soon as she saw who was blocking the way, Cheng Xiu couldn't restrain her panic. Before she had time to think about it, she turned around and turned back, planning to find another way to escape. Flashing to her, he slapped her hard on the chest at the same time, immediately spat blood from Cheng Xiu's mouth, stepped back several times, and fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Bai Ling flew away, quickly took out the hemp rope and tied Cheng Xiu up.

"Let's go first," Man Jiangxue glanced at Cheng Xiu, and said, "Don't let the disciples in the station notice the movement."

Bai Ling responded "OK", and quickly pressed Cheng Xiu's acupuncture points, leading her to follow Man Jiangxue's footsteps.

·

When Yin Qiu woke up, the sky was only slightly bright, and the thin morning light reflected on the bronze mirror through the crack of the window, and folded it again and cast it into her eyes.

It was still early, and there were already many footsteps in the inn, and the cold wind was swirling outside for a long time, and the shadow of Man Jiangxue was no longer on the bed beside him. Yin Qiu lay on the bed for a while, put on his clothes and went to bed While washing, the door of the outer room was gently pushed open. She pinched the handkerchief and looked back. Man Jiangxue came in first, followed by Bai Ling who was carrying Cheng Xiu.

"So fast?" Yin Qiu was a little surprised, "I thought you guys had gone downstairs to eat first, and I was going to find you and go back to the inn together."

Bai Ling threw Cheng Xiu on the ground like a sack, and grinned: "Your injury is still not healed, and my uncle and I are enough. No, it's easy to catch!"

Yin Qiu happily ran over, and shouted at Man Jiangxue: "Uncle Master!"

"Sleeping well?" Man Jiangxue plucked Yin Qiu's wet hair and said, "What do you want to eat?"

Yin Qiu thought for a while and said, "When we come to Yao Dingcheng, of course we want to eat wonton noodles!"

"All right, I'll go out and buy," Bai Ling raised his hand with insight, "You guys go through the trial first, I'll be back soon."

Yin Qiu smiled, and said "thank you" to Bai Ling. She glanced at Cheng Xiu and said, "Uncle Wen is still next door, why don't we call her over?"

Man Jiangxue said: "I asked Xue Tan to go to the government office, can you memorize Wen Zhaoyu?"

Yin Qiu said, "Can't Master Master recite it?"

Man Jiangxue said: "I carry her on my back?"

Yin Qiu said: "It's fine to hug me."

"...I don't want to hug," Man Jiangxue looked embarrassed, and grabbed the rope on Cheng Xiu's body and dragged her, "That's fine too."

Yin Qiu couldn't help laughing, and followed Man Jiangxue with a suppressed smile. The two dragged Cheng Xiu to the next room. Wen Chaoyu lay on the bed upright and closed his eyes to rest. He opened his eyes when he heard the sound.

"Uncle Wen," Yin Qiu walked to the side of the couch and sat down, and helped Wen Chaoyu up, "Who do you think we caught?"

Wen Chaoyu drooped his eyelids, turned his eyes to look at Cheng Xiu, and said, "Who is it? I don't know him."

"It's Senior Sister Lu's subordinate," Yin Qiu explained, "With her testifying, Senior Sister Lu will be convicted more easily."

"It's none of my business," Wen Zhaoyu said bluntly, "Quickly relieve my acupoints! I'm suffocating!"

Ever since she was knocked unconscious by Man Jiangxue, on the way from Cang County to Yao Dingcheng, Wen Zhaoyu has been in a state of being unable to move. Even when eating and relieved, Bai Ling has been guarding her every step of the way, lest she get a gap. slipped away.

"You can't release the acupoint," Yin Qiu said seriously, "you will run away."

Wen Chaoyu gritted his teeth: "You just learned some things you shouldn't have learned from Man Jiangxue! How despicable! I've already fallen into your hands, why should I run away? I won't be so stupid as to return to the Ziwei sect now stop?"

"That's not impossible," Yin Qiu said, "We are also considering your safety. In short, you have to go to Yunhua Palace with us to testify against Senior Sister Lu face to face. After the matter is over, we will hand you over to Senior Sister Ji , As for whether Senior Sister Ji is willing to let you go, that is out of our control, you just have to bear with it."

"Man Jiangxue!" Wen Chaoyu couldn't get angry at Yin Qiu, and could only curse at Man Jiangxue, "You shameless villain!"

Man Jiangxue turned a blind eye to her anger, and just said to Yin Qiu: "Sit down for a while, and wait for Bai Ling and Xue Tan to come back for trial. We have plenty of time."

Yin Qiu responded with a smile, pulled a chair and sat beside Man Jiangxue, and the few people just waited. After half a stick of incense, they heard a series of footsteps coming from the corridor. Ling carried the food box into the room, followed by Xue Tan, holding a portrait in his hand.

"The Liu Ba you mentioned was beheaded by the government a long time ago, but he left a portrait before his death, saying that the person who joined him looked like this, take a look?"

Bai Ling put several large bowls of fragrant wanton noodles on the table, and was the first to poke his head over, looked at it and said, "Huh? Why does this person look familiar, he seems to have seen it somewhere before."

Hearing this, Yin Qiu also immediately looked at the portrait, and said with surprise on his face: "...they look familiar, I seem to have seen him too."

Man Jiangxue glanced flatly, and asked Bai Ling, "You said earlier that she wasn't the real Cheng Xiu?"

Bai Ling nodded: "I tested it, she fell for my trap, she definitely wasn't."

Man Jiangxue looked back and forth between the portrait and Cheng Xiu for a while, and said: "I asked Meng Jing to inspect it that day, and I didn't find anything unusual. Maybe we underestimated Huaiwei's disguise technique. Look at her face again. There's a mask on it."

Bai Ling understood, and immediately squatted down in front of Cheng Xiu to feel her face, but after a while, she didn't find anything wrong, so she said suspiciously: "It's weird, she really doesn't have a mask on her face," said After saying this, she patted Cheng Xiu's face with the back of her hand, "Who are you?"

Cheng Xiu's expression was indifferent, blood was still dripping from the corner of her lips, her lips were tightly closed, she looked like she didn't want to talk to Bai Ling at all, instead she looked at Yin Qiu and said, "You said earlier that you wanted to convict Senior Sister Lu, what crime? ?”

Yin Qiu swallowed the cloud in his mouth, looked at her sideways and said, "Senior Sister Lu is the secret work of the Ziwei sect planted in the palace, don't you know? Of course it is a crime."

Hearing this, Cheng Xiu was obviously taken aback, and after a while she said in a hoarse voice, "How did you find out?"

"If you want people not to know, unless you do nothing," Yin Qiu said, "If you do bad things, you will be found out one day, otherwise we won't find you, but don't worry, as long as you are willing to cooperate and confess , we will not embarrass you, not to mention you have also seen that the uncle is here, and what I say will not lie."

Cheng Xiu was in doubt, and countless thoughts flashed through her heart at this moment, but she looked at Man Jiangxue and Wen Chaoyu on the bed, struggled for a moment and finally resigned: "Then what do you want to ask?"

As soon as Bai Ling heard this, she knew there was something going on, she exchanged glances with Yin Qiu and Man Jiangxue, took the portraits from Xue Tan, and said, "Let's take one by one, tell me who you are first. "

When Cheng Xiu heard this, she first sneered, looked at Yin Qiu and said, "Who am I, why don't you guess?"

Noticing the look of hatred in her eyes, Yin Qiu asked doubtfully, "We know each other?"

"Of course I do," Cheng Xiu said coldly, "It's all because of you that I can get to where I am today."

Yin Qiu was slightly taken aback: "Me?"

"Look carefully at this portrait," Cheng Xiu said with a bad look, "Take a second look, I don't believe you really can't remember it."

Yin Qiu frowned slightly, and cast his eyes on the portrait again. There was a young man painted on it. As Liu Ba said, he looked quite handsome. If he was there, he might be able to catch people's eyes. one light.

"So, the person in this painting is disguised by you." Yin Qiu looked at it carefully, only to feel that the man looked more and more familiar, but she couldn't match that face with anyone, even I can't think of a random guess.

Seeing that Yin Qiu couldn't tell her name, Cheng Xiu's face was livid, and she said angrily, "I have suffered so much because of you, and after a few years of being innocent, you actually forgot about me?" She gritted her teeth and said, "It's ridiculous—!"

Bai Ling couldn't help rolling her eyes at the side, and said wordlessly, "Then does she still want to say 'I'm sorry' to you? You should figure it out, now you and Senior Sister Lu are our Yunhua's. Traitors, I don't know how many nasty things you have done secretly, why are you so fierce!"

"I really can't remember," Yin Qiu stopped looking at the portrait, and moved his eyes to look at Cheng Xiu, "Speak bluntly, who are you?"

Cheng Xiu coughed violently, and finally said angrily: "I was forced to leave Yunhua Palace by you, and was sent to Tianchi. You don't remember me, why don't you remember me!"

Hearing her words, Yin Qiu couldn't help but feel his heart move: "Tianchi...?"

She hurriedly looked at the portrait twice, and said with surprise: "You...you are Senior Sister Ding from Tianyin Peak?"