[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

The crossbow in his hand was assembled by Xia Anran himself.

Just when Xia Anran knew that someone was trying to get his jade pendant, he pretended to be assembling the cotton candy machine, ordered an iron machine buckle, and pieced together the materials to make this repeating crossbow.

It's just that he didn't expect it to be useful until today, which was beyond his expectation.

Xia Anran's brows were solemn, while he aimed the crossbow at the incoming person to shoot under the light of the moon, while quickly analyzing the incoming person's movements in his mind.

Unprepared, the visitor was shot in the shoulder blade by an arrow. He lost his balance when he was about to turn over and enter the room because of the impact of the arrow. go down.

It's just that Xia Anran's room is on the second floor, even if she falls, it should be painless for martial arts practitioners.

Xia Anran didn't get out of the bed, his eyes were fixed on the window, and he was not sure what weapon the other party was holding and whether he also had long-range bows and crossbows, so he moved slightly towards the end of the bed, avoiding the range where arrows could be shot directly by the window.

He kept thinking about the possibility of this person, and there were two possibilities for this situation.

One is that someone saw that young man Sikong hadn't returned the mission items, and entrusted another party to snatch the jade pendant, or it is also possible that the entrustment was issued at the same time, but Sikong Jieyue's ability is stronger than theirs There are too many people, so I found him more than two months in advance.

The other is that the other party is an ordinary little thief, not a person from the quack, just looking for money.After all, everyone knows that Xia Anran has made some money recently.

But the problem is, how could his well-known ten taels of silver attract the attention of the thief, and then take the risk?For ordinary people, ten taels of silver is not a small amount of money, but for a person in the world who can fly to the sky and escape from the earth, this is just the money for a meal of wine.It would be too ridiculous to think about money just because of this little money.

He waited for a few incense sticks, until the hand holding the crossbow was a little sore, and no one came in again.

Xia Anran slowly got out of bed, he walked barefoot to the window holding his breath, looked out through the crack of the window, there was silence under the moonlight.

The young man breathed a sigh of relief, closed the window, and retreated to the bed. He placed the crossbow on the bed where he could easily touch it. During this time, he kept thinking about whether he should report to the police, and whether it was safe to live here.

If this is just an ordinary dynasty, then the height of the second floor and the second floor is a little more difficult for some small thieves.

But this is an era of rivers and lakes. The existence of Qinggong makes it impossible for him to be absolutely safe no matter which floor he lives on.

The reason why there was no recurrence should be that the visitor never expected that the owner of this room was equipped with such a lethal weapon.

The Liannu in Xia Anran's hand is not Zhuge Liang's improved Liannu, but the one invented by him first, and it's not that he couldn't make Zhuge Liang's improved version with more arrows and more arrows. If you do that, the body of the crossbow will be too large, which is not conducive to carrying and hiding.

He is now focusing on defense again, because he is the only one, and what he is pursuing now is faster launch speed, not quantity.

Moreover, from Sikong Jieyue's mouth, Xia Anran also learned about the current court's attitude towards these martial arts figures.Nowadays, weapons are naturally controlled, but because of the existence of martial arts, the sword cannot be completely restrained among the people, and its lethality is limited after all, so the government also turned a blind eye and closed it.

But the ballista is different, the ballista is absolutely not allowed to be equipped in private.

Especially large bows and crossbows, as long as they are privately owned and the number exceeds a certain scale, they are guilty of conspiracy.

Therefore, the crossbow machine he made himself has obvious shortcomings and is small in size. If he insists on refuting it, it is okay to say that it is just a self-defense crossbow.

There is a huge difference between the hand crossbow and the crossbow machine, and the range of the hand crossbow is not as good as the bow and arrow used by the Orion. Therefore, as long as you report to the government, you can carry it.

Contrary to his hand crossbow, which was more bluffing than practical, the one remodeled by Ah Liang was a complete war weapon.

Xia Anran sat under the mosquito net until the rooster crowed before he fell asleep. Tonight is over for now, but this is definitely not the end.

He still had to find a way to protect himself. Before falling asleep, he turned his eyes to his small crossbow and remained silent for a long time.

In another place a few hundred miles away from Songjiang Mansion, an old man was walking around restlessly in the house. The house is a typical Jiangnan style, exquisite and rich, and often draws quietly in inconspicuous places. Not hiding the atmosphere.

The few pots of flowers placed on the table are full of buds, very shy, but outside the house, wherever they can see, the flowers are in full bloom when summer and autumn are handed over, and the flowers are blooming like a brocade.

But the beauty of this scene did not make the old man calm down a little.As he walked back and forth, no one in the room spoke, and his emotions became more and more irritable to the naked eye, but for some reason, he was still trying to endure.

Just in the hall, there were still several grown men standing.

They have inherited the old man's good looks, and all of them can be called dragons and phoenixes, heroic and extraordinary. At this time, they also had a little hesitation on their faces, and their eyes wandered back and forth between the old man and the other person, but from their positions It seems that they are obviously biased towards the elderly.

And in this room, the only person sitting in a chair is a young and handsome young man.

He is in his 20s, with white skin like jade, black hair like ink, soft eyebrows and soft eyes, slightly raised lips, with the appearance of smiling before saying anything.

This person is the famous "Liuyun Feixiu" who is the seventh in the Hua family.

Huamanlou is excellent in knowledge, kung fu, looks, and family background. The only thing that makes people regret is that he can't see with both eyes.

Yes, he was blind, and he was blind for a long time.

When everyone talks about Huamanlou, they all sigh, this person is good at everything, but it is a pity that he is blind.

Or sincerely sigh, or rejoice.

However, as far as he was concerned, the rumors in the rivers and lakes were ignored at all, and if Huamanlou heard it occasionally, he would just smile lightly.

Blindness didn't bother him too much. Although he lost his eyes, he had a more sensitive sense of hearing.

He can hear voices that others cannot hear.

It's like spring flowers just blooming, like summer cicadas breaking through the ground, like autumn leaves meeting the wind, like winter snow falling to the ground.

Although he also regrets that he can't see, that he can no longer see the colors of the world, the sun and the moon competing for glory, the colorful colors, and the rainbow dragon piercing the sun, but it is only a little regret.

He felt that the world he had seen was already extremely beautiful, and compared to the other blind man, he had seen this world before. Although his memory was shallow, it was enough to satisfy people.

From childhood to adulthood, his parents and elder brothers invited him many good doctors.

Little Huamanlou's childhood was almost spent in bitter medicine and acupuncture.However, no matter how many times I tried, I was disappointed.

The reason why he could not see his eyes was because he suffered from a serious illness when he was young, and the high fever persisted at that time. In the end, the doctor tried his best to rescue him. He is personally content with the price.

It's just that the elders of the Hua family all felt that it was their fault that they hadn't taken good care of Xiao Qi, which led to Xiao Qi's encounter with this matter.

Hua Manlou can understand her parents' feelings, and has always been cooperative in treating illnesses.

Only this time, what his parents and elder brother wanted to do was too absurd. When Hua Manlou heard what his parents and elder brother suddenly rushed into his small building, he couldn't laugh or cry.

They even wanted to try the prescriptions on it because they read a story book, which happened to describe how to treat eye diseases.

What's even more absurd is that they have even issued a reward order to collect the valuable medicinal materials mentioned in it.

If it hadn't been said in the story book that in order to maximize the effect of the medicine, the patient had to go to Kunlun Mountain in person, then he might be the last person to know about it at the end.

Although Huamanlou has always been filial to his parents, and can understand the guilt of his parents for his eyes, and has always been very cooperative, but at this time, he couldn't help feeling that it was too ridiculous, but for some reason, even his elder brother Standing on the side of the parents.

They even packed their luggage and wanted to accompany him to the snow-capped mountains.

As for the matter of finding a genius doctor... The third brother of the Hua family said that he knows some medical skills. He said that according to the ingredients in this book, there is no need for acupuncture during the treatment process. There is no need to find a miracle doctor.

Hua Manlou struggled for a long time for the whole family's bewildered behavior, and finally persuaded the father and brothers who were in a hurry to go to the doctor to try to find the original author first.

It is always necessary to find out whether this prescription really exists, or whether the original author wrote it randomly.

Judging from the prescriptions he heard from his second brother, these raw materials are really good for ventilating and unclogging, and they are indeed good for the preservation and warming of the eyes, and they should not cause harm to the body. However, if this trip If you really need to go to the snow mountain, it is too much work and too dangerous.

Even for martial arts practitioners who are accustomed to flying high and walking low, the snow-capped mountains are still a dangerous environment that they dare not fight against.

When everyone heard that he had promised to disperse to inquire about the news, Hua Manlou turned his eyes and "looked" at his friend who had been huddled in the corner like a quail.

Yes, even though Huamanlou is blind, he has excellent hearing, and his ability to listen to sounds and distinguish positions is first-class in the world. Although his friend Lu Xiaofeng tried his best to reduce his sense of existence and never said a word from the beginning to the end, but out of respect The friend's familiarity made Huamanlou realize immediately that Lu Xiaofeng's hands and feet were involved in this matter.

Seeing Hua Manlou noticed, Lu Xiaofeng didn't dodge any more, he walked out from the corner with a bit of helplessness on his face.

"It was my father who came to look for you." Hua Manlou expressed a little apology on his face. He bowed his hands and apologized to Lu Xiaofeng. He felt very sorry for his friend being implicated in this matter. Seeing him like this, Lu Xiaofeng After hesitating for a while, he stroked his mustache in embarrassment and said to him, "Qitong, I think you might as well give it a try..."

When Hua Manlou blinked his eyelashes and opened his mouth to speak, he hurriedly interrupted: "I have already inquired, and if the author has not hidden it, then these medicines in this prescription are indeed effective in treating eye diseases. The matter of using snow lotus as medicine has never been tried before, but there are rumors in Jianghu that snow lotus is a sacred product for healing wounds, but it is too rare, and no one has been able to try it."

Hua Manlou sighed and said with a wry smile, "Even Lu Xiaofeng is like this... I'm really curious... What is this story about?"

Hearing this, Lu Xiaofeng took out a small booklet from his sleeve pocket, flipped through the paper booklet cut out from the Bai family's tabloid, and said with a smile, "I'll read it to you? That's pretty cool." interesting."

Xia Anran didn't know that a group of people who read novels as factual stories would come to his door soon, and he was standing in the county government office right now.

He is going through the proof of leaving here, yes, Xia Anran intends to move, now that he has the certificate that Sikong Jieyue forged for him, naturally he no longer needs to be trapped in Songjiang Mansion.

Although it is easier to complete the task by staying here and waiting for a rabbit, no matter what the reason is, it is obvious that someone is planning on him now, and his traces have been discovered by those who want to, so staying in Songjiang Mansion will not be safe.

If there is anything else in the entire Great Song Dynasty that can make him feel at ease, it is undoubtedly the capital of Bianjing. His main job now is to write manuscripts, and he can do it no matter where he is, for the sake of his life. , Xia Anran was going to let go of her desire for delicious food and go to Kaifeng Mansion.

He has already figured out that when the time comes, he will stay near the Kaifeng government office, or where the Kaifeng government government officials must pass through on patrol. If he encounters danger, he will just yell. Out of trust in Bao Zheng, after all, when Mr. Bao intervened, he was supposed to be cold. The other main reason was that there was a great god over there, yes, it was Nan Xia Zhan Zhao.

In Nanxia Zhanzhao's territory, even the most daring people in the Jianghu would have to shrink back, and this Nanxia not only has high martial arts skills, but also has a court status.

As the saying goes, people do not fight with officials.

Even martial arts professionals who have the ability to fly into the sky and escape from the ground are still civilians in the final analysis, and they will try their best to avoid dealing with officials.

After all, no matter how powerful you are in martial arts, you can't cope with the might of thousands of troops, and, after all, no matter how strong a knight is, he still has to live, and the foundation of his life lies in the court of the Song Dynasty, even if he is alone, In the end, living in the rivers and lakes is inevitable.

Besides, those people from the rivers and lakes in "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousnesses" are still facing the court in general.

Da Song is quite tolerant towards the people, like Xia Anran who suddenly wanted to go on a trip, after making an application, the road guide was completed in less than a moment.

Xia Anran chose the official ship as the means of transportation.

There is no direct boat from Songjiang Mansion to Kaifeng Mansion, and it needs to be transferred, but it is not too complicated, and only needs to be transferred once.For those who bought a joint ticket like him, someone will help carry their luggage.

Therefore, Xia Anran immediately paid the two, and after he bought the boat ticket, he checked out the room, and left a message to the Bai family's pawn shop, and asked for the location of the Bai family's store in Kaifeng, saying that he would The manuscript will be handed over to the person in charge over there in Kaifeng.

And in order to make up for the accident caused by his long journey here, he also handed in an extra manuscript.

But what Xia Anran didn't expect was that he wanted to prevent martial arts people from attacking him while he was traveling, so he deliberately took the official ship. Although the official ship has a higher safety factor, the conditions are more favorable, and the sailing is more stable... ...But there is a fatal flaw, that is, it drives slowly.

Very, very slow, outrageously slow!

From Songjiang Mansion to Kaifeng Mansion, if he rode a horse for less than ten days, but he took a boat for a full month.

Although Xia Anran wrote a manuscript on the boat, he couldn't hand it in because there was water on both sides.

At the beginning, he was still scratching his face in distress, thinking in his heart: I don't know if the Bai family has left any manuscripts before. Could it be that he wants to open the skylight?

Thinking of the resentment she felt when she saw a serial author open the skylight, Xia Anran couldn't help but tremble all over, and the hairs on his back exploded. Fortunately, he didn't sneeze or anything in the next few days, so he felt that it might be in vain. There are too many manuscripts left by the family, or a chapter of him is split into top, middle and bottom to read, so these few weeks can be considered to survive.

But later, he quickly let go of the guilt in his heart, chatted with the local people in Kaifeng he met on the boat, and recorded the delicious places and must-see attractions in Kaifeng Mansion on a piece of paper. Looks like a foreign tourist.

As a non-jianghu person, Xia Anran naturally couldn't read the Bai family's newspaper, and didn't know where his article was published.

Yes, just two weeks after he boarded the ship, the tabloids were about to open the skylight. Xia Anran's trip caught the people of Baijia News by surprise, and when Bai Jintang got the news from below, he also felt a headache.

What Xia Anran and the pawn shop boy said was because his silver bills attracted thieves, he was alone and lost his memory, he always felt unsafe, so he planned to move to Kaifeng Mansion where the security is better, at this moment Bai Jintang had The subtle feeling of being hit by a stone.

The people at the lower newspaper were running around in a hurry, Xia Anran calculated the number of chapters for them, but he didn't know that because of this story book, the response was overwhelming. During this period of time, everything in the world was peaceful, and there was no big storm, and naturally there was nothing wrong with it. News materials, so in order to make room for the page, the people of Baijia Newspaper published all of his chapter and half of the next chapter.

The customers here are happy to see it, but naturally there are fewer manuscripts. Xia Anran's departure has made the newspaper even more embarrassing. It will be demolished by some hot-tempered Jianghu people.

Bai Jintang shook his head at this. He frowned and first criticized the opportunistic approach of the editors of the newspaper. After the restriction, it must not be allowed. One chapter is one chapter, and readers cannot be manipulated. It's just that in the current predicament, we still need to find a way break.

"How many articles are left in stock today?" Bai Jintang held the handle of his fan, his black eyes were as calm as water, and he didn't seem to panic.

"Back to the head of the newspaper, we should still be able to last two issues." The head of the newspaper was terrified, and he said with cold sweat on his forehead, "Why don't we split the two issues into three issues...?"

Bai Jintang rubbed his fingers on the handle of the fan for a while. He calculated the time from Songjiang Mansion to Kaifeng Mansion, and the time it would take for Xia Anran to settle down there. He estimated conservatively that the time difference should be around four rounds. Adding in the time it takes to get the manuscript successfully, print it, and distribute it to various places, we should save one issue as a backup.

That being the case, "In the next issue, you will publish a summary." Bai Jintang said slowly, "It is because the newspaper office received a reply saying that many readers did not catch up with the previous article in time, so the newspaper office simply published all the previous articles in one On a piece of paper, there will be two consecutive issues of this "The Legend of Cang Hai Ling Yun", and when I receive the new article from there, I will make a serialization..."

"If the layout is not enough during the period..." He pondered for a while, "Let's find a few stereotyped masters to draw for this book."

The head of the newspaper office below praised, "This is a great move!" He couldn't help but slapped the case on the table, and he accidentally split the small case, and he was a little embarrassed.

That's right, this kind of behavior by shopkeeper Bai is a collection of clips that often appear in modern variety shows. Obviously there is nothing new and it's all fried rice, but the vast audience can only grit their teeth and recognize it. Laughing behind his back.

If the clips are wonderful enough, you can also forward these clips to your friends for Amway's use.

However, such a move by the Baijia Newspaper is nothing more than reprinting the entire book from the drafts left before, and there is nothing new in fact.

But for readers, they can read this article again from beginning to end at one time, holding a complete newspaper, which is much better than self-made newspaper clippings before, and when publishing this tabloid Well, the Bai family's newspaper also specially made some exquisite illustrations, making this newspaper look like a hardcover edition, not to cover up the fact that their works have opened skylights, which is very justified.

This is the first time the readers have encountered this situation, and they obviously bought it. Recently, their main purpose of buying Baijia newspaper is to read the serialized novels, which is even more exciting than reading gossip in the rivers and lakes before.

At this time, although there were story books in the Song Dynasty, and the style of storytelling was also at its peak, the themes were generally historical themes or things that happened in reality. With a slight change, purely original and purely fictional ones like Xia Anran did not exist. .

And his sentence "This story is purely fictional" is more like a discourse similar to black humor in the eyes of readers. Although he said not to connect the content of this novel with reality, even if he wrote this , the audience is more joyfully combined with reality.

Whether it is Penglai Island, which is well-known in various legends, or the method of making dishes written by Xia Anran unconsciously, some people have restored it, and some people have even linked to the clues in the rivers and lakes to analyze layer by layer, and spread it in a small area .

There is an idiom called Suspicious Neighbor Stealing the Axe, which means that when you have a conclusion in your mind, you can apply it no matter what you find. Simply put, the power of brain supplement is greater than reason, and now it is the brain supplement of people in the world , surpassed Xia Anran's imagination.

And in his recent works, the word "Wulin Alliance" gradually appeared, which moved the hearts of many martial arts knights.

Nowadays, there are many martial arts sects, and although there are many celebrities, they are indeed like a piece of loose sand. Although this loose sand is one of the reasons why the government can tolerate them, it is very disadvantageous in terms of the development of martial arts. To survive, they formed an alliance in private, but their alliance was just a kind of clique.

The definition of martial arts alliance involved in Xia Anran's article has already formed its own system. In later generations, the concept of martial arts alliance has been played out in various novels, but almost all martial arts literature has an alliance. The same is true in the article.

Although in his writing, the martial arts alliance actually exists as a position that is biased towards the opposite, but he also wrote that at the beginning of the establishment of the martial arts alliance, its original intention was to resolve the misunderstandings of various factions, or some people The deliberate instigation developed into a situation of fighting with weapons or even a fight to the death.

The rules are as follows: Anyone who joins this alliance cannot easily fight with each other, and if an outsider attacks a certain party in the alliance, if it is confirmed that the person on his own side is indeed innocent, then the whole alliance Everyone wants revenge for his own people.

Only in this way can we ensure that the Wulin seeks development and growth in a relatively stable state.

But there is a huge problem in this, that is the identity of the leader of the martial arts. In Xia Anran's writing, the leader of the martial arts is a high-ranking existence. After all, he is just a person without a formal title. It is precisely because of the existence of this martial arts alliance that this title of power can be accepted and recognized by everyone.

As for how to choose the leader, it is only mentioned briefly in the article, but it is enough for people to analyze that it was originally recommended by everyone to be a highly respected person, but after decades of development, it has become a competition by force.

In addition to the mutual exchange of some resources, this alliance needs to entrust each other with their backs. In this way, the identity of the leader of the martial arts is invisibly bound to the world's No. 1 martial arts

As the saying goes, there is no first in literature, and there is no second in martial arts, but almost everyone who learns martial arts has the heart of striving for strength and fighting for courage.

Every year when the martial arts conference is held, countless martial arts heroes gather to compete for the throne of the martial arts supreme.

However, Xia Anran's novel plot advances to the later stage, and intelligent readers can gradually discover from the background of the spider silk that in fact, it is the most likely and most capable to make everyone in Penglai leave the island without any doubt in their hearts, and thus kill them. The person who took out the third eye of the people in Penglai should be the former martial arts supreme.

He pretended very well. When the current Martial Arts Supreme Master handed him over to him, he still thought he was a highly respected senior and respected him very much. Because of the current martial arts leader's trust in him and the power in his hands, he committed a series of heinous crimes.

Everything is just for the honorary title of No. 1 martial arts in the world.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to sacrifice his best friend's family, and he even did not hesitate to frame the younger generation he watched and grew up with, but the trick finally showed his flaws...

By the way, the place where Kawen is stuck is where the flaws are exposed, so the martial arts people who are sadly stuck by Kawen can understand that the newspaper republished the previous full text so that readers can find the exposed ones in front of them. There are flaws, but I still can't help but want to scold:

You have the ability to Kawen, you have the ability to update quickly!

The owner of the incident was completely unaware of all this. Xia Anran, who had been in a coma for half a month after being on a boat for a month, collapsed as soon as he stepped on the land of Kaifeng Mansion. They sat down with support, and then their group of passengers was quickly surrounded by a group of boys holding signs.

This is about living in our house, the downstairs of our house is the bathhouse, but all the guests can take a bath for free.

That said, come to us, our downstairs is a study, and residents can borrow books for free.

Another one said come to us!Our home is located in the most prosperous central avenue of Bianjing City, with Kaifeng County Government in the north, a food street in the south, wine shops and workshops in the west, and a shopping street in the east. Our building is full of food, drink and bathing, and it only costs one tael of silver a month. !

Xia Anran suddenly grabbed his hand, "Please trouble me, brother, take me to see the house later."