Yangyue

Qi Zhumeng touched the shadow guard's acupoint, and the latter fell to the ground with all his internal energy sealed.Qi Zhu took the porcelain bottle held by Ying Weixu, unscrewed the stopper, and poured out two nail-sized pills.

Qi Zhu squatted down, opened the shadow guard's mouth, and stuffed the pill into it.

The shadow guard turned pale with fright, fearing that it was some kind of poison, he desperately held back his throat not to swallow.Qi hit his jaw one by one, a gust of air surged up, and the pill fell into his throat.

The shadow guard's face was pale, and Qi Zhu's control over strength and aura could be said to be perfect, impeccable.

Qi Zhu: "In a few minutes, you will no longer remember anything that happened in this quarter of an hour."

The shadow guard coughed violently, and said angrily: "You think you can hide the duckweed pavilion?!"

Qi Zhu smiled meaningfully: "It's hard to find me in the vast martial arts world, let alone your Duckweed Pavilion?"

As the medicine took effect, the shadow guard only felt dizzy, and the blurred smile of the man in white before his eyes became nothingness like an illusion.The shadow guard gritted his teeth and endured desperately, his eyes were bloodshot, as if he wanted to remember Qi Zhu to death.

It is a shame and a shame that the shadow guards of the duckweed pavilion are forced to drug them.If due to his negligence, Luping Pavilion missed such important information, and if Qi Zhu was someone who harbored evil intentions, the consequences would be disastrous, and he would rather die to apologize!

What's more, if he dies here, the Pavilion Master will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly.

Thinking of this, the shadow guard closed his eyes, exhausted his last strength, and bit his tongue.However, Qi Zhu reached out and grabbed his jaw. His strength was horrific, and the shadow guard's teeth were trembling, unable to bite, and his expression was almost distorted.

Like trapping a tiny ant, Qi Zhu effortlessly pinned him down, his handsome eyes were only calm: "The one who gets out of bed is not a hero."

The shadow guard's face turned pale, and his teeth were about to crack, as if he wanted to chop Qi Zhu into pieces.

Shadow Guard: "You... are you..."

The effect of the medicine surged up, and the shadow guard's eyes went dark, and he fainted on the ground.

When the time of Hai was approaching, Qi Zhu left Guo Shangshu's mansion. His cheeks were flushed from drinking, and he bowed to the master of Guo's mansion, and bid farewell.

After leaving the Guo Mansion, Qi Zhu went straight home and drank tea to hangover.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual about Qi Zhu's behavior, the four shadow guards searched around the Hou Mansion and stayed to search for that person.In the end, the four found him on the stone chair in the gazebo in the bamboo forest behind the Hou Mansion, and the man was already asleep.

One person stepped forward, untied the water bottle on his waist, poured the water directly on the man's face, and said: "I told you to stay and search, and you fell here to sleep comfortably? How decent! The Lord Master of the pavilion found out. , how can you survive!"

The shadow guard struggled to open his eyes, and saw his four colleagues sitting up in a daze: "It's strange, why did I fall asleep..."

He vaguely remembered that after sneaking into the Marquis' mansion, he entered the Marquis' bedroom. After searching around, he didn't seem to find anything unusual, so he went to the bamboo forest to wait for his colleagues to come back, but was caught by the secluded birds and insects. Once surrounded, boredom will come up.

After thinking about it, the Shadow Guard was ashamed and couldn't figure out why he fell asleep so easily. He quickly wiped his face and stood up, asking, "Did you find anything strange when you went to the Guo Mansion?"

A colleague replied: "I didn't find anything. On the way, Lord Hou fell in love with a maid serving tea in the Guo family. He took her to the Nuan Pavilion in the back hall to have fun. It took more than half an hour to come out."

The shadow guard heard this, and for some reason, there was a sharp stabbing pain in his head.He frowned and exercised his internal strength for a while before the pain slowly subsided.

That night, in the side hall of the duckweed pavilion official residence, Henry Zhang sat quietly beside the beating candlelight of the glazed candlestick. After listening to the report from the shadow guard, he asked lightly: "When Lord Hou and that maid left, did you follow?"

A little hesitation appeared on the face of the shadow guard, and he bowed his head and said: "The subordinate did not follow, the warm pavilion is narrow and there is not much hiding place, I am afraid that Lord Hou will find out the clues, and presumably Lord Hou... was also going to have fun at that time Yes, I will wait outside."

Henry Zhang didn't ask anymore, and raised his hand to let the shadow guard back down.

After the next day, when Qi Zhu returned to the mansion, Housekeeper Lin said that he had something to report to Lord Hou.

Qi Zhu has always been only a shopkeeper, but thinking that tomorrow he will go south with the duckweed pavilion, it is better to make arrangements for the big and small things in the family, otherwise he is a bit too incompetent to be the head of the family up.

Qi Zhu called Steward Lin to the Piandian study room, and the latter said respectfully: "Master Hou, today Anzhenhou's mansion sent someone to the mansion to greet him, saying that the eighth day of next month will be the [-]th birthday of Anzhenhou, and would like to invite Lord Hou to visit them Attend the birthday banquet at the house."

Qi Zhu turned his eyes slightly when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "Is there still an unmarried concubine in the residence of Marquis An Zhen?"

Butler Lin nodded slightly: "Yes, there is a concubine who has not left the court. I heard people say that her character and appearance are excellent... If the Marquis likes it, you can ask someone to inquire about it. That's exactly what God meant."

In this capital city, there are countless families who want to marry Xiankunhou Mansion.In the huge Hou Mansion, the young and handsome Lord Hou has no elders to serve, if he can really find this kind of marriage and become the wife of the Xian Kunhou Mansion, he will naturally have a lot of blessings to enjoy in the future.

Qi Zhu said with a smile: "It's not a day or two since Marquis Anzhen wanted to get married with me, but Steward Lin's thoughts on this matter have changed, and I have no intention of it. Now I'm still in the filial period, so it's not appropriate to talk about marriage."

Butler Lin wondered, although it is true that it is not suitable to get married during the filial piety period, but there is no reason why you should not even see each other. It would be good to have a few concubine concubines who know the cold and the hot to serve.

Even though he thought so in his heart, Butler Lin didn't dare to disobey Qi Zhu's intentions, so he could only nod his head and say yes.

"As for the birthday banquet, I can't go either." Qi Zhu shook his fan, pretending to be sorry, "I was planning to talk to Butler Lin about it, but today I received the emperor's order to leave for the southwest to re-investigate in two days. There are several unsolved cases in Dali Temple, and it will take several months."

Butler Lin was surprised and said: "This...why is it so sudden? The land in the southwest is no richer than the capital, and there are disasters and bandits every year. How can the honorable body of Lord Hou bear it!"

"Don't worry, the emperor has his own arrangements." Qi Zhudao, "You can pack some gifts and send them on the birthday of Marquis Anzhen. I'm leaving the day after tomorrow. I need Steward Lin to take care of these affairs in the house." .”

The southwest area has always been a place where the emperors of all dynasties have been battered.The weather is not good, the people's customs are not changing, and rogues and famines are prevalent. Every two years, the imperial court has to send troops to suppress the rogues or distribute food for disaster relief.

From the capital to the southwest, it will take at least two months at a fast pace.If there was only the Duckweed Pavilion this time, the itinerary would be much faster, but this time, there was an extra sedan chair among the carriages, and the person sitting in it was naturally the "noble body" Qi Zhu.

The carriage bumped all the way, and it was almost at the southwest border.Qi Zhu pretended to be a young master of a family who came out to play in the mountains and rivers, and the rest of the guards of the duckweed pavilion were his entourage and servants.

They are all members of the imperial court. Since Ding Feiyun can infiltrate the guards directly under the emperor's control, the group behind him must also know their identities and appearances.Therefore, both Qi Zhu and Henry Zhang's appearances have been changed, especially Henry Zhang. He has established a notorious reputation in the martial arts, and his appearance is too outstanding. There are far more people who know him well than Qi Zhu. .

Henry Zhang put on a black outfit and followed around the sedan chair on horseback. He was one of Young Master Qi's guards.

Qi Zhu in the sedan chair gently lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, and looked at the face of the person sitting immediately beside the sedan chair who had undergone a disguise, with a mediocre and hostile face, intertwined with a somewhat complicated look of regret.

Xiao Yangyue raised her eyes and said, "What are the young master's orders?"

This is the first time Qi Zhu sees the Pavilion Master in men's clothes, but the men's clothes are too rough, and Henry Zhang also hides his true face, which is really a waste of money.

Since Qi Zhu pretended to be a young master who came out to have fun, he naturally looked like a young master, so Qi Zhu replied: "I'm thirsty, find someone to come in and serve tea."

Henry Zhang heard the words, his eyes narrowed slightly, he stepped on the pedal lightly, his body landed steadily on the steps in front of the sedan chair, opened the curtain and sat in.

There is not much space inside the sedan chair, and when two men sat in, it seemed even narrower.Henry Zhang put the saber aside with a dull sound.

Qi Zhu looked at the saber, it was more than four feet long, the scabbard was dark red and inlaid with jade, and it was plated with faint python patterns. I couldn't tell what it was made of, but just putting it here, it felt menacing. Thinking about it, there was a lot of blood on the knife.

Henry Zhang poured a cup of tea, but it was not for Qi Zhu, but he drank it by raising his head.He opened the sedan chair curtain, looked at the deep and quiet mountain forest around the path, and said: "After walking for another hour, I will find an inn to rest."

"Rest so early today?"

"This is already in the southwest, and there are many rogue bandits at night, so it is not suitable to stay for long." Henry Zhang said in a deep voice, "Moreover, many schools of martial arts today have made their fortunes in the southwest, and there are countless heroes. Most of the rogue bandits practice martial arts, and they are not ordinary. barbarian."

Where the imperial power is weakened, martial arts heroes will emerge in endlessly.Back then, Emperor Taizu's Gujian Mountain also began to recruit martial arts masters from all walks of life in the southwest, and gradually grew stronger.

Qi Zhu smiled when he heard the words: "No matter how powerful the rogue is, he can't compare to the master of the pavilion, right?"

Henry Zhang was indeed responsible for protecting Qi Zhu's safety. Hearing this, the latter glanced at Qi Yi, turned around, opened the sedan chair curtain and returned to the horse.

In the middle of the unitary hour, a group of people arrived at an inn located at the foot of a low mountain. The servants at the gate of the inn took a look and saw that the man who came down from the sedan chair was very handsome and richly dressed, accompanied by [-] or [-] guard servants. The sedan chair and horses were also rare and rare things, and I was so moved that I could see that they were rich young masters who came to visit from a wealthy place in the north.

The servant came forward to salute and say hello, helped everyone to settle the carriages and horses in the backyard, and said respectfully: "Guest officers, do you want to stay in the hotel?"

Qi Zhu replied: "Yes, do you have enough rooms here?"

"Yes, yes, don't worry, Mr. Guest Officer, let me take you upstairs to take a look. Although our place is remote, the furniture and decorations are all high-quality, you are satisfied."

The inn is very spacious, and the first floor is full of guests who are resting and staying in the inn, which is quite lively.Henry Zhang followed Qi Zhu upstairs, his eyes swept across the entire front hall.

In this southwest area, martial arts is very popular. Unlike the people in the capital who like to wear various decorative pendants, many people here carry weapons, and even the women wear long whips around their waists, and their demeanor is described as sturdy.

After settling down, Qi Zhu came to the front hall of the inn to take a seat, ordered a jug of good wine and a few dishes of home-cooked dishes, while Henry Zhang and several guards sat at another table.

On a table at the side, three burly men were chatting while drinking, and what they were talking about was exactly the current martial arts.