The rivers and lakes are full of vests

Xiye City is a large military city in the Central Plains and the Western Regions. Most of the city is the mansion of the generals and the residence of the soldiers. However, because it is the city that must pass through to the twelve countries of the Western Regions, there are also many merchants in the city. People from the rivers and lakes, Hu people outside the Great Wall, etc., can be described as a mixed bag.

In an unremarkable small courtyard in the southeast of the city, two slender men in black robes stood respectfully in front of the closed door. They lowered their heads slightly, with silver masks covering their faces, standing quietly. .

After a long time, there was a rustle in the room, and the two men bowed together and said, "Master, Zhong Yuan believes."

After a while, the people in the room responded, "Come in."

One of them pushed open the door and entered the room. The doors and windows in the room were covered with light-sealed paper, and it was pitch black.

The man came to the bed in a few steps, took out the letter in his arms, and offered it with both hands.

The figures and faces of the people on the bed were all hidden in the darkness, only the rough voice of an old woman could be heard.

"read."

"Yes."

The man lit a cluster of fingertip flames, illuminating the contents of the letter.

"The fragments of the Hanyang Dengling Mausoleum have been obtained. We will leave for Xiye in five days and hand them over to the leader. In addition, Lu Wencheng has a large number of spies in Xiye'an, so don't be careful."

The person on the couch gave a deep smile, "Good seventeen, you are indeed the most outstanding apprentice I have brought out."

The man lit the letter, and opened another one, "The matter of the three envoys has been found out. It was done by the sixteen envoys. They have defected and disappeared."

There was a brief silence in the room, and the people on the back couch laughed out loud, their voices sharp and piercing.

"This group of brats, do you really think they can hide everything from me? It's ridiculous."

"Forget it, it's up to them how they want to sacrifice each other, they are all bound by love and love, and it's hard to make things happen. Right now, as long as we get the last piece of climbing tomb, we're done."

"How's the news going?"

"The Second Teaching Envoy has found out that the last fragment has been circulated several times and fell into the hands of General Tiance, who then resigned and lived in seclusion, leaving the fragment in Tiance's army. It should be in the garrison outside the city now." The big camp is just in whose hands, it has not been found out yet.”

"As soon as possible, we must win before Lu Wencheng rushes to the Western Regions. Only then will we have enough energy to deal with him."

"Yes."

The room returned to darkness and silence.

It took a while before a cold sentence sounded.

"Lu Wencheng, soon you will fall from the high altar to the quagmire. I am really looking forward to that day."

......

Inside Qingliao Peak of Jinyun Mountain.

Lu Wencheng was practicing calligraphy in the study, his strokes were smooth and smooth, and a masterpiece was about to be finished when Wu Zhong pushed the door open and whispered a few words to him.

His face gradually became serious, and the barrel of the pen cracked with a click.

With a wave of his sleeve, everything on the table fell to the ground with a crisp sound, crackling and shattering into pieces.

Wu Zhong knelt down on one knee, lowered his head and said, "Sovereign master, please calm down, the subordinates are not doing well, please punish the suzerain master."

"After the man in black trespassed on Feiyuan Pavilion that night, I told you to be on guard against changes in Hanyang! Why would you be succeeded by others!" Lu Wencheng's chest heaved violently, and his inner strength was released, and the coercion forced Wu Zhong to stop Dare to look up.

"The 20 people who went to Hanyang are all excellent in martial arts. The Hanyang Martial Arts Hall has not received the letter of success for a long time. They sent people to check overnight and found that they all died of the same kind of sword wound and dagger wound... "Wu Zhong paused for a moment, then bit the bullet and continued: "That is to say, there were only two people on the other side, so they killed all twenty of our elite fighters."

Lu Wencheng slapped the table violently, the wooden table was scattered and cracked, and a cloud of dust flew up in the room.

Wu Zhong knelt on his knees and kowtowed, his voice trembling slightly, "Sovereign master calm down, the subordinates will definitely recover the Dengling fragments!"

"Chasing? How to chase? You can't even catch a man in black who is lurking on the mountain, how can you track down the fragments of the climbing tomb, waste, they are all a bunch of waste!"

Lu Wencheng roared angrily, picked up objects around him and threw them on the ground.

Wu Zhong was tense all over and didn't dare to raise his head. He hadn't seen the suzerain so furious for many years.

"Before that person robbed people in my realm openly, and now he is looking for news as if there is no one in the land. Where is my Tianji sect and who am I, Lu Wencheng!"

"Sect...Master, according to my subordinates, the person who escaped from Feiyuan Pavilion a few days ago is not the one who jumped off the cliff after robbing him. There is a considerable difference in lightness skills between the two."

Lu Wencheng looked at him, "So? What's the use of telling me this? What I want to arrest is people. I want to see people alive, and dead bodies! I will hand over all the guards and dark guards of Tianji sect to you , you can manage such a sect that is full of enemy spies for me, if one day the enemy wants to take my head, isn't it so easy?!"

Wu Zhong prostrated himself on the ground, his body dripping with cold sweat, "I can't argue with this subordinate, please punish the suzerain."

After Lu Wencheng got angry, he calmed down a little, and said in a deep voice, "The night the man in black broke into Feiyuan Pavilion, did you really investigate the whole mountain and found nothing?"

Wu Zhong heard the suspicion in Lu Wencheng's tone. After all, since someone successfully hijacked people on Qingliao Peak a few months ago, the five peaks of Jinyun Mountain have strengthened their defenses. If someone from outside the sect wanted to sneak into Tianji quietly and break into the Feiyuan Pavilion at night, it would not be easy, so the man in black that night must be someone who was hiding in the sect, but he did thoroughly investigate the whole incident that night. The people on the mountain, even the people from all the peaks, have never been spared, and no one with an arm injury has been found at all.

After all, people will not disappear for nothing, unless he, the commander in charge of the search, conceals and covers up.

When Wu Zhong thought of this, his scalp became tighter, and the suzerain became more suspicious, obviously the suspicion was on his own head.

There was a look of struggle on his face, and he opened his mouth after a while, "I will tell the peak master that my subordinates thoroughly searched the whole mountain that night, and found nothing unusual, but..."

Lu Wencheng frowned thickly, "Say."

"But when the subordinates went to Chaoquan, they searched the peak master's room... The peak master said at the beginning that he had fallen asleep, and before opening the door, the subordinates broke in. In the room besides the peak master, there are one person......"

Lu Wencheng frowned even deeper, "Who?!"

Wu Zhong's throat slipped, and he slowly spit out three words.

"Fu Peibai."

The room fell into deathly silence, Lu Wencheng's face was dark and unclear, and he asked after a while, "Why is he in Yan Ran's room?"

Wu Zhong was tormented in his heart, thinking about how to use euphemistic words to express the scene he saw that night.

"The sight in the house was dim, and my subordinates didn't see clearly, but saw the two of them sharing the same bed." After Wu Zhong said, he glanced carefully at Lu Wencheng's expression, seeing that the other side's expression was serious, but he was not angry, so he continued. Said: "Then the subordinate left the room, because this matter was related to the peak master's reputation, so the subordinate had concealed it before."

Lu Wencheng was silent for a while, and asked: "That is to say, you didn't check whether their arms were injured that night?"

"Yes."

Lu Wencheng rubbed his jade wrench finger, as if he was in deep thought, before he said, "Wu Zhong."

"Subordinates are here."

"Send a few clever spies to be placed beside Fu Peibai and Yan Ran."

Wu Zhong was shocked, and raised his head to meet Lu Wencheng's deep pupils.

"Yes!"

.......

For several days in a row, Fu Peibai lived in seclusion and kept quiet. After training during the day, he went directly to the bottom of the Buddha Cliff and stayed in a stone cave. He forced himself to sleep.

But everything is self-deception, her heart can not get a moment of peace

.

She tried to raise the sword to kill Lu Wencheng, her real enemy, but every time she thought about it, the faces of the peak master, Ding Yi, and Lu Qingwan would appear in her mind.

She hated, hated Lu Wencheng, the murderer who ruined her family, but she hated it even more, hated this unfair fate, hated this fate.

If she didn't kill Lu Wencheng, she would be ashamed of her parents and younger brother. If she killed Lu Wencheng, how would she face the peak master, Ding Yi and Lu Qingwan.

She even began to waver. In that dark cellar, perhaps the peak master shouldn't have rescued herself. If that was the case, they had never known each other, and what happened now would not happen, and she would not have to face such a painful choice.

In the dark stone cave, Fu Peibai gasped heavily, and then she leaned forward suddenly, warm and sticky blood splashed from her mouth onto the stone wall, staining it a dark red.

She lay down on the stone bed exhausted, feeling a little lucky.

Finally able to sleep for a while...

The sky was bright, and the warm winter sun shone into the cave. Fu Peibai woke up in a daze, feeling weak in her hands and feet, and her body was weak. She sat up and glanced at the sun outside, and it was already past noon.

She quickly put on her shoes and socks, put on her coat and ran towards the front mountain. When she arrived at the school grounds, just in time for the trainees to disband, Qi Ji saw her and strode over.

"Brother Fu! Where did you go? I went to your room just now to look for you, but I didn't see anyone."

Fu Peibai said vaguely: "After going out for morning exercise in the morning, I took a nap in the forest and accidentally overslept."

"That's it, you've been in a bad mood for the past few days, and you should have a good rest while studying hard."

"Thank you brother for your concern."

"Let's go, you must not have breakfast, right? Let's go have lunch together."

Fu Peibai nodded, and went to have lunch with Qi Ji, and then practiced martial arts all afternoon.

After practicing martial arts, she walked back to her residence exhausted physically and mentally, and ran into Afu who was waiting at the door.

"Xiaobai." Afu called her with a smile. Today, her face that usually doesn't wear makeup has been put on some makeup, making her look even more beautiful.

"Sister Afu, why are you here?"

"Are you free tomorrow night?"

Fu Peibai nodded.

"Then after the training is over tomorrow, you come to the back mountain to have dinner together."

"Is there something special?"

Afu blinked, and flicked her forehead, "Tomorrow is the end of the year, the last day of this year, don't you remember?"

Fu Peibai has been in a daze since he returned to the mountain, and he really didn't remember the days.

"Okay, I'll be there after tomorrow is over."

Afu bit her lower lip, showing a hint of embarrassment, "Also, I have some news to tell everyone."

"what?"

Afu leaned close to Fu Peibai's ear and whispered a few words, Fu Peibai opened his eyes wide in an instant, and asked in disbelief: "This...it was so sudden, when did it happen, why have I never heard you say it?"

Afu shot her a look, "You think everyone is as coy as you," she paused, her voice softened, "Don't tell Ding Yi yet, I will tell him alone in the future."

Fu Peibai frowned slightly, and responded softly after a moment of silence.

"it is good."