Weicheng snow

After kneeling until the moon was in mid-heaven, Yi Qingchen felt a little drowsy, his head tilted and almost hit the pillars of the corridor, Jiang Zhige and Zhao Yu were still kneeling in the courtyard, a draft passed by, and the frozen clothes Qingchen Chen was shocked, and most of his sleepiness went away.

He leaned against the colonnade, feeling tangled in his heart.

Not to mention letting a woman kneel for so many hours in the middle of the night, just talking about Jiang Zhige's help to Master over the years, he couldn't just sit idly by.But the purpose of the two of them's trip is not clear, and the master avoids seeing him, it will probably be a troublesome matter, and he can't betray the master.

Half an hour later, as the temperature got lower and lower, Yi Qingchen couldn't sit still. He walked up to the two kneeling people, spread his right palm, and said to Chao Yu, "Give me the token, and I'll take it." Go to Master."

Zhao Yu ignored it.Jiang Zhige obviously felt that Yi Qingchen's move was an opportunity for the two of them, and he shouldn't miss it, so he persuaded Zhao Yu, "Brother Yi is a man of righteousness and the only disciple of Mr. Chan Ji, it would be best for him to come forward to persuade him , I have been kneeling for three hours, and it would be futile to kneel down like this, why don't I leave it to Brother Yi..."

"Anyone can do it, but he can't." Zhao Yu cast a cold glance at Yi Qingchen, "Don't meddle in this matter, this is the last advice to you for the sake of the eldest princess, otherwise you will die this time." No one will collect your body."

He was expected to be a bodhisattva in his clothes, and when he met such a ignorant and harsh person, the pity that had been brewing in his heart was completely dissipated. He smiled and nodded, "Thank you for your admonition, the night is long, Let's not disturb the girl's elegant mood, and Yi will go to rest now."

Jiang Zhige had a headache and said, "Calm down the two of you first, and focus on the pearl right now."

Yi Qingchen felt resentful, "I wanted to help, but someone told me not to die."

Zhao Yu said lightly, "I am very calm, and it is true to collect the corpse."

"You!" Yi Qingchen clenched his fist secretly, but due to the disparity in strength, he couldn't do it, Jiang Zhige stopped him again. "You" for a long while, and had to give up resentfully, "Forget it, don't do it with women." Zhao Yu still wanted to speak, but the sound of the turning mechanism sounded in the room, Yi Qingchen was the first to understand, and the master was finally willing to see these two people.

The door of the room was opened from the inside, and there were several coughs in the dark room, followed by the creaking sound of the wheelchair, Yi Qingchen stepped up to meet him, and pushed Master Liu out.

At this time, Master Liu was already looking tired, leaning back on the chair without saying a word, the iron armor at the junction of the wooden wheelchair was stern and chilly under the moonlight, the night wind stirred the treetops and rustled, and the reflection was pulled by the moonlight. Long and tall, there are scattered footsteps of patrolling agents outside the courtyard.

After the sound of footsteps faded away, Zhao Yu finally spoke, "I implore Mr. Chan Ji..."

"Needless to say, I already know." Master Liu sighed a long time, "The one who should come has finally come... Is your grandfather still in good health?"

Zhao Yu couldn't believe it, "Are you... forgiving Grandpa?" After a pause, "Grandfather has become the Prime Minister of the country, and he is in good health."

"Guo Zai, Guo Zai... Okay, very good..." Master Liu laughed a few times inexplicably, "You have the same temperament, facial features, and even the same appearance when begging for help. ...I remember your name is Yu Zhao?"

Zhao Yu nodded, "Yes."

Master Liu was silent for a moment, then turned to look at Yi Qingchen, "Qingchen, I have something to talk to you two, you go to the back kitchen to heat up dinner."

Yi Qingchen knew in his heart that he could not hear some words, so he obediently removed the hot dishes in the back kitchen. The four vegetarian dishes were steaming hot soon, but Master Liu hadn't come yet. Yi Qingchen lingered in place for a while, and decided to go back to the house first. After a good night's sleep, big and small military affairs and important matters have nothing to do with me. I just need to recharge my batteries and look for blood-activating grass in the mountains tomorrow morning.

The lightly-clothed bedroom is only a hundred steps away from the back kitchen, and there is a lotus pond in the middle. The mud in the pond has not been renovated for many years. Fortunately, there is no living thing, only a small island in the center of the pond, and a lotus plant grows on the island. Some old loquat trees, this tree is the ancestor of other loquats in the courtyard, it existed here when Yi Qingchen came to Weicheng, it is taller than the Mujia mountain that Master piled up, like a huge canopy.

In his spare time, Master Liu would sit in the room by the window, facing a window, staring at this loquat tree in a daze. It can be seen that this tree is of great significance to Master, and there is probably a long story behind it , but since the master is unwilling to say, Yi Qingchen will not ask ignorantly.

He bent down and picked up a piece of iron and threw it towards the water, once, twice, three times, four times, making a total of five ripples.

When Yi Qingchen was proud, a stone flew out from nowhere, undulating on the surface of the pool with a very ingenious arc, splashing a total of ten ripples, Yi Qingchen was stunned, followed the trace, loquat There was a person standing on the top of the tree, wearing white clothes, standing against the light, with a long sword pinned to his waist, looking down at him from a height.

Yi Qingchen realized in an instant that this person should be the thief who broke into Weicheng as claimed by the government, that is to say, his family was attacked by a thief.

Seeing that the man had a sword and he was unarmed, he did not dare to act rashly, "This...a hero? Don't you think I act smartly, but in fact I am pitifully poor. I eat all three meals and are skinny. There is also an old man with handicapped legs that needs to be supported, and there is really no money left to honor your old man, if you like it, you can take this clothes."

"..." The man was silent for a long time, he took out a bag from his waist and dropped it, and there was a clear sound of gold and silver when it landed, which made Yi Qingchen's heart skip a beat.The man spoke with a warm voice, "These money should be enough for a while, if you feel tight, little... I'll try again some other day."

Yi Qingchen looked suspiciously at the white kit on the silk surface, he dared not move for a while, for fear of being cheated, the man in white just laughed lightly when he saw that he would not pick it up, and then jumped into the night, his movements were so fast that his clothes were light. Chen couldn't help admiring.

After confirming that no one was around, he picked up the kit.

The kit was much heavier than imagined, untied the gold rope at the mouth of the bag, Yi Qingchen knew at least one thousand gold with just one glance, and there were white jade gems mixed in it, which was even more difficult to estimate.

Yi Qingchen was at a loss for the windfall. This was the most money he had handled since he could remember. He didn't know whether to accept it calmly or hand it over to the government.Selfishly speaking, he really wants to stay, but the source of the money is unknown, it may be a person's life savings, or it may be the pocket money of a dignitary, it is not kind to accept the former, and it will cause trouble if accepting the latter.

But if it is left to the master to decide, he will definitely not accept it.

Yi Qingchen thought for a while, returned to the bedroom, and hid the money bag in the mechanism box under the bed.

A battle between heaven and man made Yi Qingchen lose sleepiness, the moonlight outside the house was bright, and according to the time, Zhao Yu and Master should have finished talking, so he rushed to Master's bedroom with the medicinal herbs stolen during the day.

It wasn't until the bedroom was in front of them that they realized that the discussion was still going on.

Yi Qingchen wanted to avoid it, but when he turned around, the word "Yi Qingchen" hit his ear.

In a daze, he listened to what Zhao Yu said next, "Yi Qingchen...no, Yi Baixue died for the shark beads once, and the princess ordered that she must not be involved again. But the meaning of the imperial court is that Yi Baixue was once the leader of the robbers in the world, and it is the easiest to investigate the whereabouts of Mingzhu. If she finds her whereabouts, she must bring her back to meet the Holy Majesty no matter what."

Master Liu smiled inexplicably, "So you are an orderly official of the court, but you want to do an act of disobedience?"

Zhao Yu said firmly, "I am indeed the official of the imperial court, but I am also the attendant of the eldest princess. The princess and Yi Baixue used to be confidantes, and they have a deep friendship, and they are also one of the few people who know that Yi Baixue is still alive. I have been following her all my life, so even if I try everything in the world to recover the Shark Pearl, I will not disobey the princess' words."

Master Liu said, "You are as rigid and extreme as your grandfather, and you accept death."

Jiang Zhige seemed to be an outsider, so he was a little confused, "Just now when you talked about the robbery, I understood it very well, but now you're talking about this Yi Baixue, who is he?"

"An old man." Zhao Yu said, "Eleven years ago, when I was not even ten years old, the 'Mingyue Rebellion' broke out, and an organization called the Marrow Sect was discovered in southern Xinjiang. The king of Zhennan forcibly settled down. In order to celebrate this event, His Majesty invited the king of Zhennan to enter the palace to share the feast of Shangyuan. At that time, there was a young man with outstanding lightness skills who easily entered the palace and stole the most precious treasure of the country, the jade head of the eldest princess. Guan, thus became famous in one fell swoop, and was hailed by the world as the top thief, a genius boy."

"...A lot of things happened later, so I won't talk about them one by one. Until a few months later, the mackerel beads used by the state teacher to renew the life of the eldest princess were suddenly stolen. The court traced the clues and found everything It turned out to be a shocking conspiracy by the Sorrel-eating Sect. Out of love, Yi Baixue went deep into the Sulphur-eating Sect to steal the mackerel beads, but was murdered by the Sulphur-eating Sect. She fell off a cliff and... was seriously injured... ..”

"Among those who were rescued by Yi Baixue at that time was a disciple of Lingshan. That disciple had excellent medical skills. He used the medical skills of life and death to hang Yi Baixue for the last time. To die, and secretly send Yi Baixue into the hands of friends in Weicheng, and ten years will pass in a blink of an eye."

Jiang Zhige was shocked when he heard this, "I was already fifteen or sixteen years old at that time, and I had never heard of it, so I was really ashamed. Then the Yi Baixue mentioned in this story is Brother Yi?"

"The 'Mingyue Rebellion' involves a lot of secrets, and the imperial court will order to block the news. Weicheng is remote, so it is understandable not to know." Zhao Yu sighed, "Actually...in front of the county government, I I recognized Yi Baixue, but because of the princess's order, I had to pretend not to know. But now that Mr. Chan Ji is old, and my grandfather told me not to be tired, Mr. Chan Ji would not show up to deter me. Don't let those gangsters live, if he waits to make waves, the people in Weicheng will definitely suffer."

"Little girl, don't threaten this old man." Master Liu tapped the armrest lightly, "Times have changed, and now the leader of the bandits has moved to someone else, instead of asking this antique old man to come forward, it's better to invite the current leader of the bandit." It's more appropriate."

Jiang Zhige suddenly said, "I'm afraid...it won't work..."

Master Liu, "Oh?"

Jiang Zhige smiled embarrassingly, and explained the abruptness just now, "After Yi Baixue died, there was no one to control the bandits for a long time, and each family was in turmoil for a long time in order to fight for the title of bandit leader. There are countless factions, the two largest of which are equally powerful and have their own followers, so far they have not been able to compete for the first place."

"Two thieves?" Master Liu was surprised, "This is unheard of throughout the ages."

Zhao Yu added, "According to the imperial court, the two who are now the heads of the robbers are the white-clothed jade-faced flying fox and the black-clothed ghost-faced gentleman. He is a young man who robs the rich and helps the poor, rarely seeks wealth and kills, so he is called a grand thief. But that ghost-faced gentleman has a cruel temper, he does not steal money but takes pleasure in taking people's lives, and almost no one has survived from his hands... .Because the two of them have very different temperaments, it is difficult to get together."

Master Liu's rhythm of knocking on the handrail slowed down, "That's why, no wonder even you, the granddaughter of the Eagle King, can't do it."

Zhao Yu nodded, "Now that the imperial court has issued an order to gather righteousness, even though the black and white two have always been at odds, they dare not lose face to the imperial court. At present, many forces have entered the city, and the number of people has greatly exceeded expectations. The meeting will be held at midnight tomorrow. The manpower in the yamen is far from enough to suppress these forces, and I hope Mr. Chan Ji can point out a way out."

Master Liu pondered for a long time, no one dared to speak out, even Yi Qingchen who was standing in the shadow behind the house held his breath.After a long while, Master Liu finally let go and said, "Tomorrow, I will let Qingchen go for me."

Zhao Yu was surprised, "This..."

"This old man has his own decision." Master Liu gave three reasons, "First, this old man is already paralyzed, and such absurd appearance will not be able to restrain the group of blood-licking people. Second, this old man At that time, it was famous in the world for the art of manipulating the Yanjia. Even in its heyday, it was only by virtue of this Yanshu that the group of people could be restrained. Tomorrow, the old man will tell Qing Chen the formula for manipulating the Yanjia, which is equivalent to the old man himself. Go. As for the third..."

"This old man thinks that Qingchen should choose his own path, and he doesn't have to follow the wishes of others. Therefore, he should not hide it from him as a teacher or father. What do you think, Qingchen?"