Yangyue

Duan Rufeng waited for a long time, but he couldn't wait for Henry Zhangyue and Qi Zhu to come back. He stared closely at the fire in the distance, feeling more and more uneasy.

Bai Yu, who stayed behind, was equally anxious, but he knew very well that what the Pavilion Master said was reasonable, if the enemy double-wrapped him, they would not have time to deal with it, and someone with higher martial arts must stay here.

Bai Yu thought for a moment, then said to Duan Rufeng: "Master Duan, you can go and have a look at Lord Master and Lord Hou, I will stay."

Duan Rufeng pondered for a while, nodded in agreement, and told Bai Yu to pay attention to safety and immediately go to the direction of the bamboo building.

There was a bamboo forest growing beside the mountain stream, and when Duan Rufeng was about to reach the bamboo forest, a gust of cold wind that made his hair stand on end came from nowhere, he stopped in an instant, his eyes widened slightly trembling.

This is……

Duan Rufeng only felt that his chest was being squeezed tightly. Just by sensing this breath, he already felt his scalp tingling and his heart jumping. He couldn't even imagine what it would be like if he was surrounded by this internal force.

The bamboo forest was split open, and Duan Rufeng's palms were slightly sweating. He recalled what happened to him three years ago, and recalled that day full of blood and fear.

It was that person, that person three years ago.

When the strong wind disappeared completely, Duan Rufeng was drenched in cold sweat. He held the sword in his hand stiffly, and could hardly believe what happened before his eyes.

After a while, Duan Rufeng came back to his senses, and found that his legs were as heavy as lead.He let out a breath slowly, and hurried towards the bamboo forest.

Half a quarter of an hour later, he saw Qi Zhu's figure in the bamboo forest that was broken everywhere.

Henry Zhang was held in Qi Zhu's arms, with terrifying blood dripping from his hands, his face was pale, and his lips were stained with a few strands of bright red.Qi Zhu obviously didn't turn around to look at him, but he seemed to know that it was him who came. He held Henry Zhang and stood up from the ground, killing intent, anger, and strange calm intertwined in his eyes into an invisible net.

"Master Duan." Qi Zhu said calmly without looking back, "There are three prisoners captured alive in front of the bamboo building, please take them away."

"Shaoqing..." Duan Rufeng stared at Qi Zhu's back, "What happened?"

"Xiao Yangyue is injured and must return to the city for treatment as soon as possible. Geng Chongdao is dead. Let's let the matter of Jieziling go." Qi Zhu calmly replied, "The bamboo building has been burned down, and there is probably nothing inside. Take those prisoners Take it back for interrogation, maybe you can find out a thing or two, enough for you to report to the emperor."

After finishing speaking, Qi Zhu took Henry Zhang and left.

The bamboo building was still burning, and the scorching wind hit Duan Rufeng. Looking at Qi Zhuli's back, he felt an unprecedented urgency in his heart.

When Henry Zhang woke up, she was in a bumpy carriage.

He felt that he was being held in someone's arms, and the heartbeat of another person was resting on his ear.He stared blankly at the little morning light shining through the bamboo curtains of the carriage, and gradually regained his sanity. He sat up suddenly from the couch, but a sharp pain suddenly came from the fingers holding the window.

Qi Zhu: "Lie down well and don't move around."

Henry Zhang suddenly turned her head and saw Qi Zhu sitting behind him, the tension in her heart eased by most.Henry Zhang looked down at his hands, only to realize that his fingers and palms were wrapped in gauze, and when he smelled it carefully, he could still smell the slightly bitter smell of medicine.

Henry Zhang didn't care about it, he opened the bamboo curtain of the carriage, saw the surrounding scenery, was shocked, and said: "Have we left Jieziling?"

Qi Zhu: "Yes."

"Why did you leave!" Henry Zhang glared at him, "The matter of Geng Chongdao has not been investigated at all. If you go back now, the emperor can still punish you!"

"Even if we return to Jieziling, what is there to investigate?" Qi Zhu asked back, "Geng Chongdao is dead, and the bamboo building has been burned down. Why don't we interrogate the captives carefully, maybe we can find out something."

Henry Zhang was at a loss for words for a while, and then asked: "Are those prisoners taken away?"

"Take it away, Mr. Duan is watching."

Qi Zhu was right, the Jieziling incident could only be temporarily dismissed, except for the few captives, the rest of the clues had been cut off.

What's more, the martial arts forces behind Geng Chongdao may not be easily dealt with by the court.

The person he couldn't see his true face could shatter his sword and even hurt his ten fingers with just a simple palm blow.

"Who is that person?" Henry Zhang asked, "I passed out...how did you escape?"

Qi Zhu just said: "You need to rest."

Henry Zhang looked at him, but felt ridiculous in her heart, not laughing at Qi Zhu, but laughing at herself.No matter how many times Qi Zhu lied to him, he believed him so many times, but he still expected to hear sincere words from Qi Zhu, even if there was only one sentence.

"Okay, you don't want to say it." Henry Zhang said coldly, "Then I will find out by myself."

After Henry Zhang finished speaking, he wanted to open the car curtain and go out, but Qi Zhu pulled him back again: "I said, you need to rest, don't walk around. Your finger is hurt badly, I finally gave it to you. Bandage it up, don't open the wound up again, just treat it for me."

"I……"

"My lord, don't be self-willed at this time. When I return to the palace and see the emperor, I'm afraid I still have questions."

"My duckweed pavilion token has been taken back." Henry Zhangyue said, "Who do you think it is from?"

Qi Zhu rolled his eyes, thinking that he almost forgot about this matter. He hadn't been able to think about it before. It must have been difficult for Henry Zhang to fight all the way from the martial arts to this position of one person under one person and above ten thousand people, but now he is implicated As a result, the identity of the pavilion master was also temporarily stripped, and if it were replaced by someone else, I am afraid that he would even have the heart to cut him into pieces.

But Henry Zhang was still running for him. The first thing he did when he woke up was that he was worried that he could not find out the truth in Jieziling during this trip, so that he would not be able to get rid of the crime easily.

He really owes Henry Zhang a lot, if he has a chance in the future, let him repay it slowly.

An hour later, everyone arrived at the palace.

Qi Zhu failed to see the emperor, but directly received the order and was temporarily placed under house arrest in his own mansion, guarded by the guards, while Xiao Yangyue, Duan Rufeng and others went to meet the emperor.

After Qi Zhu returned to the mansion, all the servants in the mansion knelt down on the ground, especially Xi He and others who were usually taken care of by him, were crying out of breath.

These people in the mansion have lived in fear these past few days. Although the imperial decree of confiscating the family and punishing the company has been suppressed by the emperor for the time being, they are all afraid that the person who preached the imperial decree from the palace will come again. They are so afraid that they cannot sleep for days and nights.

Qi Zhu comforted everyone, saying that he believed in the emperor's sageness, and he would definitely return his innocence.

Only two days later, the Hou Mansion ushered in a new imperial decree.

The imperial edict was delivered by Duan Rufeng himself. He dismounted in front of the gate of the Hou Mansion, looked at the people in the Hou Mansion kneeling on the ground who came out to welcome the imperial edict, and lingered on Qi Zhu for a few more seconds.He unfolded the imperial decree in his hand, and read: "Following the heavens, the emperor ordered: After interrogation, several captives have confessed to the poisoning of Geng Chongdao by the former Imperial Hospital. I think that Qi Qing has done a great job in arresting Geng Chongdao, and now he is the Marquis of Xiankun, To show the kindness of the Son of Heaven, and to show the clarity of the court's laws, I admire this."

Qi Zhu's heart moved, and he replied loudly: "I accept the order, long live the emperor, long live, long live, long live."

Everyone in the Hou Mansion who was kneeling on the ground burst into tears of gratitude and shouted long live my emperor again and again.Qi Zhu had already planned in his heart that the emperor would kill him as usual, but now that the imperial decree came down, it was somewhat unexpected.

Qi Zhu didn't think that the emperor could dispel his suspicion so easily, there must be a reason for it.

After announcing the decree, Duan Rufeng did not leave directly, but said to Qi Zhu: "I have something to talk to Lord Hou, I wonder if Lord Hou is free."

Qi Zhu stared at Duan Rufeng's solemn and quiet face, and replied, "Master Duan, please."

Qi Zhu led Duan Rufeng to his study, and before Duan Rufeng could speak first, Qi Zhu took the lead and said, "I have received a lot of care from Mr. Duan before and after this matter, and now I can be cleared of the charges. Mr. Duan belongs to the Houfu. Benefactor, this kind of kindness will be remembered by everyone in the Hou family."

Duan Rufeng shook his head lightly: "Master Hou is serious, being a guard is just following orders."

"But Lord Duan didn't report to the emperor that I know a lot about Gu poison, did he?" Qi Zhu said with a smile, "Of course I have to thank Lord Duan."

Qi Zhu didn't ask Duan Rufeng why he did this, but he knew that Duan Rufeng would not do things for no reason, and would explain it to him himself.

Duan Rufeng was silent for a while, and said: "If Master Hou really wants to thank you, you should thank Pavilion Master."

Qi Zhu: "But the pavilion master has spoken to the emperor?"

Duan Rufeng nodded slightly: "When I returned to the palace the night before, my lord asked to interrogate the captives personally, knelt for two hours outside the Qingxin Hall, and was called into the imperial study room to talk with the emperor for nearly half an hour , Only in this way can we obtain the approval of the emperor."

There was another heavy snowfall in the capital the night before, and one could imagine how tortured it was to kneel in the snow outside the hall for two hours.

Qi Zhu let out a breath slowly, Henry Zhang was injured at first, but she didn't feel sorry for herself so much, she just felt that the cracks in her heart were twisted out for a moment, and she still felt distressed and uncomfortable.

What Xiao Yangyue talked with the emperor is probably the reason why the emperor spared his life for the time being. Xiao Yangyue personally interrogated, there must be a way to prevent those prisoners from saying anything other than confessing Geng Chongdao.

Qi Zhu: "Is he okay?"

"Lord Pavilion Master returned to the mansion after the interrogation. The emperor sent an imperial physician to the Xiao Mansion, but he has not issued an order to return the token of Lord Pavilion Master." Duan Rufeng replied, "If Lord Hou is free, I'd better go and see Look at the Pavilion Master."

Qi Zhu sighed in his heart, Henry Zhang...it really killed him.

"I came here this time because I wanted to ask Lord Hou about something." Duan Rufeng stared into Qi Zhu's eyes and said word by word, "The identity of the person that Lord Hou and the pavilion master met in the bamboo forest of Jieziling that day , does Lord Hou know?"

Qi Zhu stared at Duan Rufeng and didn't answer for a while.

Duan Rufeng: "Don't worry, Lord Hou. I just want to ask about this matter privately. It has nothing to do with the guards and the court. If Lord Hou trusts me, please let me know."

Qi Zhu: "Why do you think I will know?"

"When Lord Hou asks this, it means that he really knows." Duan Rufeng calmly talked back and forth with Qi Zhu, "If you don't know, just deny it."

Qi Zhu laughed twice, did not deny Duan Rufeng's words, and asked: "Why does Mr. Duan want to know?"

Duan Rufeng was silent for a long time, there seemed to be some faint pain and hatred in his eyes, he finally opened his mouth, the lingering worries in his heart turned into a hoarseness in his throat: "My best friend in the martial arts , died at his hands."

Huo Qiao's hatred for the little genius (doge)

I can’t write enough words to talk about it at the end of the article. Regarding Yang Yue’s real force value, Yang Yue is definitely very strong among the “listed” martial arts masters, and can be ranked in the top three (of course she will be beaten by the first two) .However, there are many hidden masters born in the entire martial arts world, such as You Jinlin mentioned in the previous volume, Gongsun He in this volume, and Yang Yue's master. Counting these people, Yang Yue is indeed not very strong.

But Yangyue said that it is completely okay to say that the number one in the university, after all, there are only a few masters around the emperor, if they can't be called the number one in the university, they will be mercilessly ridiculed by Fang Wuzhu (Fang Wuzhu didn't dare And Yangyue is still growing!

The current force value is roughly like this:

Gear 3: Hojo?Fang Wuzhu>Master Yangyue>Three Yangyues second stage: Yangyue≈Gongsun He≈You Jinlin>Geng Chongdao>>Duan Rufeng≈Other low-level masters>Bai Yu Gongsunhe is really not good, but he just comes up Challenged Fang Wuzhu, the road narrowed, and he seemed very good at doge