Weicheng snow

Cutting down the peach blossom tree surrounded by three people in front of the palace gate, a group of people carried it on their shoulders, knocked open the heavy palace gate like a bell, and swarmed into Zizai Palace.The inside of the palace was pitch black, not even a single light was left, so everyone had to light a fire by themselves.

As soon as the fire was lit, many people were startled by those weird screens and masks.

"I'll be good..." Shen Sheng turned around and said with emotion, "It's too scary... If there is someone hiding behind the screen, who would know... ..."

Many people echoed Shen Sheng's opinion and nodded repeatedly, "That's right, the painting on it is also quite scary."

"Why don't you push it? Although it seems to be quite valuable, you can't take it away..."

"I think these masks can still be taken away, so just push these screens?"

"Push it!"

"Wait, I got this mask first, don't grab it from me!"

The commotion lasted for a while before subsiding.

When the dust settled, the hall was in a mess, the glazed screen was pushed to the ground, the debris was scattered everywhere, and the paper screen was even more horrible, like a coastal village after a hurricane, it was even worse than a natural disaster horrible.Yi Qingchen witnessed all this happened in a hurry and ended in a hurry, knowing that there seemed to be something wrong with doing so, but he couldn't find an excuse to dissuade him.

Everyone divided up the loot that could be taken away, and began to search for Qi Jiang Jiuqu's whereabouts layer by layer.

Because Yi Qingchen's legs and feet were dragged down, and because of the previous fierce battle, he had to accumulate energy and could not forcefully climb the stairs, so he stood at the entrance and did not leave. Shen Sheng was frightened by the looting scene just now, and it was difficult to accept for a while. He didn't want to go with those robbers, so he waited with Yi Qingchen.

From where the two of them are standing right now, looking along the palace gate, they can see the roof of Wangqing Palace and the blood-colored barrier wall in the distance. Yi Qingchen stared at it for a long time, and sighed helplessly. In a calm tone, he said to Shen Sheng, "Who do you think is more foolish, me or him?"

Shen Sheng thought for a while, and commented sincerely, "It's not the same thing, they are usually gentle and gentle with others, but when it comes to life and death, they look like crazy, it's a match made in heaven..." While speaking, it seemed that He vaguely sensed something was wrong, glanced at the darkness beside him from the corner of the eye, and suddenly pulled out the broken sword and slashed at it, but it couldn't adapt to the current length of the sword, and the cut was empty.

Although it was cut empty, he still held his sword and pointed somewhere in the darkness, confronting the hiding person.

After a while, the man finally stepped out of the darkness, dressed in red, with tulle lightly flowing, and a good figure, but his long hair was tied up, dressed like a man, and he held a sword in his hand , the tip of the sword pointed directly at Shen Sheng.

Yi Qingchen looked at the person for a long time, then realized something, gasped in astonishment, and murmured suspiciously, "... before and after applying the powder, how can there be such a big change?"

The Jiang Jiuqu in front of him is a handsome and elegant man, completely without the madness and arrogance he had when he was dressed as a woman. Seeing Yi Qingchen, he smiled gracefully, "You guys are trying to block my way?" The voice It turned into a normal male voice, and Yi Qingchen couldn't adapt to it for a while. After a while, he opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Jiuqu, and asked, "Where's Brother Jiang?"

Jiang Jiuqu smiled, didn't answer, but passed by Yi Qingchen, as if he was about to leave the Zizai Palace, Shen Sheng immediately blocked his way, Jiang Jiuqu thought it was a little funny, "You think, with your ability , can you stop me?"

Shen Sheng smiled back, "How do you know if you don't try?" Immediately, he unleashed his fists and kicks and started fighting.

Yi Qingchen watched from the side, and realized that although Jiang Jiuqu was still graceful and soft, not like a man, but the martial arts routines had changed, as if... it was the moves taught by Tiangui Laodao in the dream .

What shocked Yi Qingchen even more was that Jiang Jiuqu didn't use silk from the beginning to the end.For Jiang Jiuqu, silk and satin are his most proficient weapons, which can best show the level of his peak period. At such a critical moment, why did he suddenly give up silk and satin and switch to swordsmanship, which he is not very proficient in?

Yi Qingchen saw it in his eyes, and only felt that there was an indescribable violation.

In fact, Shen Sheng didn't want to defeat Jiang Jiuqu, but was delaying time. He would be able to take Jiang Jiuqu straight away until the disciples of Huazong who went upstairs to find someone and the killer of the Dugu family came back. Jiang Jiuqu should have noticed that At this point, after a few moves, he forcibly withdrew his momentum and rushed to the outside of Zizai Palace with his strength. Seeing that he was about to escape, Shen Sheng hurriedly chased him out.

As a result, as soon as he reached the open space outside, Jiang Jiuqu immediately turned his head and smiled madly at the two of them, "Do you think that I really want to escape? My lords, I really don't understand the intentions of the servants... "Looked for a while, then covered his mouth suddenly, and murmured, "Brother said that from now on, you are not allowed to call yourself a slave..."

Yi Qingchen was a little confused about what was going on, could it be that in just a few days, Jiang Jiuqu had successfully obtained Jiang Zhige's forgiveness?What happened between the two brothers?

Before thinking about it, a group of Huazong disciples came out with the help of the weak Jiang Zhige, and stopped beside Yi Qingchen. Yi Qingchen hurried forward to check Jiang Zhige's condition, and asked the Huazong disciples, "" What happened to Brother Jiang?"

The disciple of Huazong thought thoughtfully, "When we found him, he was locked in a room full of red threads. The room was very strange and covered with talisman papers. We are afraid that it is the sorcery of the old ghosts. , I didn’t dare to stay for long, so I brought him here, and I don’t know what the situation is.”

"Brother is just tired." Jiang Jiuqu laughed twice, "I arranged that room according to my wishes, and my brother likes it very much. He forgave me for everything I have done these years, and I am still in that room Unlock the dream-drawing technique on the two of us... In this way, as long as we get rid of you, my brother and I can..."

"Kill him..." While speaking, Jiang Zhige faintly woke up, his whole body was trembling, he was struggling to lift his head, his breathing was very heavy, as if he had used a spell earlier Consuming too much vitality, the eyelids trembled for a long time, and finally opened halfway, the eyes were a little wandering, and it took a long time to fix the sight on Yi Qingchen, opened his mouth, and said in a hoarse voice, "Kill... ...he......"

Yi Qingchen thought for a while, guessed that Jiang Jiuqu had done something too much to Jiang Zhige again, and wanted to ask some more details, but that fellow, Jiang Jiuqu took two steps forward, and said doubtfully, "Good brother, why?"

Jiang Zhige and Jiang Jiuqu looked at each other for a moment, and said firmly, "Kill him..."

"You promised me...I, I will come back to pick you up when I lure the Southward Army away. The two of us escaped together..." Jiang Jiuqu froze on the spot, his face full of words. It's unbelievable, "You said you hoped that your parents would rest in peace, so I gave up fighting for the resurrection technique. You said that as long as I leave the Marrow Sect, you will still recognize me as my brother..."

Jiang Zhige sneered, "It's all a lie to you."

When Yi Qingchen heard the words, he actually felt a little inexplicably distressed about Jiang Jiuqu, but his heartache was his heartache, and his position would not change because of this.

The disciples of the Huazong discussed it and concluded, "So it was Jiang Daxia who lied to the ghost-faced gentleman in order to delay the time until we invaded Juexian Valley?"

Jiang Zhige forced a laugh out of his throat, and said nonchalantly, "It's ridiculous for the same murderer to talk about kindness and reason... If you forgive me, all the sins you have committed can be washed away. , what do you want to do morally?"

Sometimes, Yi Qingchen would feel that Jiang Zhige was too rigid, so rigid that he didn't even talk about family affection, but in principle, what he did was not wrong. Yes, but Yi Qingchen disagreed from the bottom of his heart, so he didn't respond to Jiang Zhige's words, but looked at Jiang Jiuqu with some sympathy.

At that time, Jiang Jiuqu was standing on the spot, clenched his fist with one hand and the hilt of his sword with the other, his expression was extremely distorted.

The wind blew from the valley, shaking the red thread of a tree, Jiang Jiuqu pinched the hilt of the sword in his hand, covered his face and laughed maniacally, turned around a few times, took off the red robe that was covering the outside, Throwing it at Huazong disciples, Yi Qingchen hurriedly reminded, "Get out of the way!"

The silk and satin tore the robe, and pierced the bodies of several Huazong disciples in the blink of an eye, connecting them together. The bright red robe fell to the ground, Jiang Jiuqu's hair was disheveled, and his expression was crazy. Yi Qingchen knew what was going to happen next. It is inevitable that there will be a fierce battle, and what they have to do now is to delay the time until Mr. Dugu returns, otherwise, with the current strength, it is impossible to fight against Jiang Jiuqu.

After thinking for a moment, he hurriedly said to the remaining two Huazong disciples, "Go back and find Mr. Dugu!"

The two Huazong disciples who were crying and squatting in front of the classmate's corpse hurriedly got up and ran to the Zizai Palace. Jiang Jiuqu threw a piece of silk at the two of them, and Shen Sheng hurriedly blocked it with his sword. He barely protected the two of them.

Jiang Jiuqu covered his face and laughed for a while as if he lost control of his emotions, then dropped his hands and rushed towards them.

Right now, only Yi Qingchen, Shen Sheng, and Jiang Zhige are left in the entire open space. Yi Qingchen is half a patient and has to take care of Jiang Zhige, so he can only entrust Jiang Jiuqu with the heavy responsibility Shen Sheng, fortunately, Shen Sheng's swordsmanship is quite good, he can be valued by Jianzong, and it's still a bit of a stretch to delay Jiang Jiuqu.

But after all, half of Shen Sheng's saber was broken, it was a short soldier, and it was not easy to deal with the silk and satin of soft soldiers and long soldiers, and now he had a new injury on his arm, which made things worse. With the increase in the number of silks and satins, Shen Sheng felt more and more tired.

Fortunately, after another cup of tea, the two disciples of Huazong finally managed to find other people from Zizai Palace.

Now Shen Sheng had many cuts on his body and bled a lot, so he retreated temporarily and left the battlefield to Mr. Dugu and the others. Seeing Jiang Jiuqu who looked so crazy, Mr. Dugu still chose to walk out of the crowd alone , adhering to the tradition of courtesy first and soldiers later, he asked with a smile, "Your Excellency is the ghost-faced gentleman who is as famous as the jade-faced flying fox?"

Jiang Jiuqu stared quietly at Mr. Dugu, "So what?"

Mr. Dugu said directly, "After the matter here, there will be no place for Your Excellency in the world. Instead of having nowhere to go, why not come to my house?"

Jiang Jiuqu asked suspiciously, "Who are you?"

Mr. Dugu was not annoyed by such an answer, he still calmly replied, "Murong Qian's teacher."

Jiang Jiuqu was stunned when he heard the words, his eyes were half closed, "Are you the head of the Dugu Patriarch?"

Mr. Dugu nodded, "Exactly."

On the contrary, Jiang Jiuqu couldn't understand, "The Food Marrow Cult always went northward, bypassing the property of the Dugu family, and never slandered the members of the Dugu family, why did you provoke the owner to lead the southward march? "

These hidden love clothes and light dust are unheard of, so I looked at Mr. Dugu's back in shock, and couldn't remember it for a while, but Mr. Dugu smiled lightly, "Although the noble sect has never had any grudges with me, the Dugu family is the family of the Jianghu family after all. First, how can you just ignore the turmoil in the Jianghu?" Seeing Jiang Jiuqu lost in thought, he proposed again, "I have always loved the virtuous, regardless of my background, as long as I am willing to serve the Dugu family faithfully... .”

Jiang Jiuqu flatly refused, "Serving you? Impossible."

Mr. Dugu closed the folding fan and tapped his palm, "It's... such a pity." Turning around, closing his eyes, he said, "Let's do it."

As soon as the words fell, a group of killers dressed in black jumped out of the dark, and slaughtered Xiang Jiang Jiuqu, wrestling with him, and it was difficult to distinguish the superior for a while, Yi Qingchen was shocked, knowing that there was no There is no room for meddling, so I thought for a moment, walked to Mr. Dugu's side, and said in a low voice, "Mr. is really hiding something."

Mr. Dugu said with a light smile, "Young Master Yi is laughing."

Yi Qingchen glanced at the battle situation at Jiang Jiuqu's side, and asked again, "If the ghost-faced gentleman complied with your request just now, will you really not kill him?"

Mr. Dugu agreed, "I will do what I say."

Yi Qingchen looked at Jiang Jiuqu, who was gradually losing ground, and murmured, "It's really a pity."

"My son's pity and my pity, do they refer to the same thing?" Mr. Dugu looked at Yi Qingchen and smiled, spread out his palm, in the palm lay a red thread strung with silver ornaments, Yi Qingchen recognized it immediately It turned out that this was Jiang Jiuqu's little finger that was wrapped around his little finger because of the dream-holding technique. After the dream-holding technique was lifted, he tied it around his head as a hair rope.

Unexpectedly, when it fell on the ground, Mr. Dugu picked it up again.

It was just an ordinary and not very valuable red thread. If it fell on the ground at the moment, even if he knew that it was unusual for the Jiang family brothers, Yi Qingchen would never deliberately pick it up.

But Mr. Dugu did it just like that. Could it be that he wanted to...

Before he could open his mouth to prove his thoughts, Jiang Zhige walked over with his body supported, and said to Mr. Dugu, "This thing is given to him, just to gain his trust. There is nothing special about it. I don't know. Can you hand it over, sir?"

Mr. Dugu returned the red thread to Jiang Zhige, and the moment Jiang Zhige reached out to take it, Yi Qingchen noticed that there was also a string of strange red letters on Jiang Zhige's little finger, which was applied to Jiang Jiuqu by the dream-drawing method. The shackles on the little finger are somewhat similar, yet slightly different.

After Mr. Dugu returned the red thread to the original owner, he casually mentioned, "Except for the screens, masks and stories, all the furnishings in this huge Zizai Palace are very old. I found out that your room, Mr. Jiang, the tables, chairs, bedding, and even the red rune thread are all new products, and from what I can see below, the pattern drawn by the red rune brush is..."

Jiang Zhige interrupted, "It's just an ordinary appearance, and he prepared all the things, I don't know." His tone was blunt and full of loopholes, and even Yi Qingchen could tell that Jiang Zhige was deliberately hiding something. Yi persuaded, "Brother Jiang, the master understands this and can explain it to you. If you feel that there is something wrong with your body, remember not to hide it, so as not to provoke evil methods."

Mr. Dugu chuckled lightly when he heard the words, "Young Master Yi is kind."

Jiang Zhige's face changed again and again, but the hand holding the red thread became tighter and tighter. After a long while, he finally relaxed, and Tong Yi Qingchen said with a smile, "Brother Yi, you are worrying too much, this is a matter between my two brothers The grievances should not involve you, what is the face of caring about it because I am not capable enough to cause the disaster to spread to the present field and involve everyone's worries?"

Yi Qingchen scratched his head, only to feel that Jiang Zhige's thoughts became more and more rigid, and he couldn't reason with him at all.

During the silence, Jiang Jiuqu was subdued to the ground by the killers of Dugu's family, but he was still struggling. Mr. Dugu was about to step forward when he saw this, but Jiang Zhige stopped Mr. Dugu and said, "Sir, can I leave it to my subordinates to deal with it personally?" ?”

Mr. Dugu knocked on the folding fan and said with a light smile, "Please go ahead."

Yi Qingchen was a bit apprehensive, "Brother Jiang has hunted down Mr. Ghost Face for so many years, and now he has finally got his hands on him. He will definitely not give up easily."

Mr. Dugu looked at Jiang Zhige's back as he raised his knife and sighed with a light smile, "It's a pity..."

Yi Qingchen always felt that Mr. Dugu's sigh "It's a pity" was meaningful, but he was not as magical as Mr. Dugu after all, so he couldn't figure it out, so he could only wait and see.