[Comprehensive martial arts] The bright moon shines on you

The vermilion palace gate closed in front of my eyes.

Lu Xiaofeng stood at the entrance of the hall and looked at the closed door, heaved a sigh of relief, turned around and said with a smile, "Today's business is finally over, Brother Chu, shall we go have a drink?"

Although the night was dark at this time, there were too many things that happened tonight, and both of them had already lost sleepiness.Facing Lu Xiaofeng's invitation, Chu Liuxiang withdrew her gaze from the palace door, remained silent for two seconds, and smiled softly, "If you don't get drunk, you won't go home."

On the night of August [-]th, whether it was the duel between the two peerless swordsmen on the table, or the plot of the Southern King's rebellion hidden under the undercurrent, they all ended in a relatively satisfactory way... Although in some people It just doesn't feel complete in the slightest.

Gong Jiu dragged the man in black who had come to assassinate His Majesty for a full quarter of an hour in the South Study Room of Qianqing Palace. Although he was finally let go, the Southern King's son who was left on the spot, dressed in the emperor's court uniform, was enough to kill him. Nan Wang was convicted of treason.After Wang Xiang was rescued by Ye Zhiqiu, he rushed to Prince Taiping's mansion, and met the real emperor who was hiding in the mansion under heavy protection.That night, there was also disturbance in the barracks in the northwest. The two lieutenants who were instigating the rebellion of the Southern King wanted to transfer troops into the city, but were stopped by the commander-in-chief.The two sides almost broke out in conflict, until King Taiping rushed to the barracks to sit in the military camp after sending the emperor into the palace, and the situation was finally completely stable.

On the other side, the elder Yao Wang, who came a step late, saw the scene of his precious apprentice falling down. This hot-tempered old man almost threw a dose of medicine powder on the spot and knocked everyone down on the ground.Lu Xiaofeng Huayuelou and the others tried to persuade her, and he took Ming Yueye's pulse and found that she was just a little overworked and just needed to rest for a while, so the anger was slowly calmed down.And at this time, everyone finally knew the reason why he came a step late.

"In order to drag Senior Yao Wang out of the city, the group of Nan Wang's subordinates actually poisoned the water veins in the capital, what a bunch of lunatics!"

The moonlit night is just tired, and there are some signs of wind and cold in the middle of the night.Gong Jiujiu simply reported the situation to his imperial brother and asked her to stay in the palace to recuperate.Others could also rest in the palace originally, but the old seniors were not very impatient with the rules in the imperial city.In addition, although Huayuelou and Lu Xiaofeng had negotiated with them today, although they helped each other today, they didn't want to have too much to do with the imperial court.So in the end, the large group of people who watched the battle all left, Huayuelou also had other important matters, only Chu Liuxiang and Lu Xiaofeng were left to go out to drink at night.

In one or two hours, it will be dawn, and the bright moon in the sky will also move from the middle of the sky to the west.The moonlight sprinkled the empty long street, and the fragrance of osmanthus floated in the air.

At this time, Lu Xiaofeng and Chu Liuxiang were sitting and drinking in a hotel in the capital.It was said to be a hotel, but it was actually just a very small restaurant, even the wooden tables where Lu Xiaofeng and the two drank were set up outside.The place is also remote, behind a narrow alley.Lu Xiaofeng took Chu Liuxiang around several streets and alleys before arriving here, and it was hard for him to find such a late-night restaurant in the middle of the night, and the taste of the wine was actually not bad.

Chu Liuxiang picked up the wine glass and glanced at the shopkeeper who was preparing food for them in the narrow shopfront.This is a shop opened by a middle-aged couple, both of whom are ordinary people who don't know martial arts.Perhaps it was because of business visits in the middle of the night. Although the two of them were a little sleepy, they were in a good mood, chatting while doing things, with smiles on their faces.The couple are ordinary people living at the bottom of the capital. They didn't know that they were hosting two well-known figures in the world, and they didn't know that just tonight, the sky above their heads almost changed, and their lives were in danger. He was almost lost in the game of the big man above his head.

Looking back, Chu Liuxiang sighed slightly, "Probably this is the difference between Nanwang and Jinshang. He has never treated these people as his own, so naturally he doesn't care about their life and death."

"Well said!" Lu Xiaofeng drank the wine in his glass in one gulp, and sighed, "Although I don't care about government affairs, I really don't want the emperor above me to be replaced by someone who doesn't care about the life and death of the people. At that time, the rivers and lakes were not unrelated to the court."

The reason why he has this feeling is also because of the Hengshan incident more than 20 years ago.On the surface, the tragedy of returning to Yanfeng Mountain in Hengshan was caused by the people of Jianghu. It has nothing to do with the government.But in fact, an unfounded treasure has deceived many people from the rivers and lakes to rush to Hengshan, and many of them have been famous and respected for a long time. No one restrained.This kind of thing is basically unimaginable today 20 years later.If there is news of the birth of the treasure today, even if there is a fight between the Jianghu people, it will never be as tragic as being involved in half of the Jianghu as it was 20 years ago.

This is not because today's Jianghu people have relatively high concentration. The tragedy that happened back then was actually related to the current situation at that time. 20 years ago, when the first emperor was in the late years of his reign, there were signs of civil unrest among the people and the people, and the whole world was in a predicament of restlessness and turmoil, with dark clouds covering the sun and making it difficult to see the way forward.This is true of the people, and so is the rivers and lakes, so there is the madness of returning to Yanfeng in Hengshan Mountain with corpses strewn all over the field.At that time, the martial arts situation in the Central Plains was like a powder keg, and the Hengshan treasure was just a trigger to ignite it, and then this explosion collapsed half of the righteous way of the martial arts in the Central Plains.

Chu Liuxiang was naturally familiar with the Hengshan battle, so even though Lu Xiaofeng was just expressing aimlessly, he immediately understood what he was talking about.Raising his hand and taking a sip of wine, the man in Tsing Yi shook his head slightly and let out a shallow sigh.

At this time, the store has already served the sliced ​​cooked beef.Although he didn't know who Lu Xiaofeng and Chu Liuxiang were, he knew that these two were definitely not ordinary people just by looking at their unconscious aura, so when he served the dishes, he acted cautiously and courteously.Lu Xiaofeng nodded towards the shop with a smile, watched him turn back to the shop to work again, picked up the chopsticks on the table and sighed softly, "Senior Yao Wang hates people's life indiscriminately and takes life as nothing. No wonder he just arrived in Taihe There was so much anger in the palace."

Chu Liuxiang paused slightly when he picked up the wine glass, and his black eyelashes drooped, "It's also because of Mingyue's illness." Having said that, he raised his hand and took a sip of the wine, his eyes dim, "It's my fault, I shouldn't have let you drink it." She traveled so far."

Hearing his words, Lu Xiaofeng waved his hands quickly, "Brother Chu, this is none of your business. I also know Mingyue's temperament. If she really wants to come, no one can stop her. On the contrary, we should all thank you, Brother Chu." It’s right to support you all the way.”

The man in Tsing Yi lowered his eyes and smiled slightly without saying a word. He raised his hand and drank the wine in his glass in one gulp.

Lu Xiaofeng looked up at the sky, picked up his wine glass and murmured softly, "But if Mingyue really doesn't come, the matter of tonight may be in suspense."

Chu Liuxiang raised her eyebrows slightly, and raised her eyes slightly, "Brother Lu, what you mean is that you didn't plan to let her come?"

Lu Xiaofeng gave a wry smile, "Today, there are three huge underground forces involved in King Jinnan's rebellion. The situation in the capital is so chaotic, how dare we let her come here."

"Besides, we never thought that we could make Ximen and City Lord Ye give up. We called Senior Yaowang just in case. No matter which of them fell under the sword of the other side, we wanted to see if we could save them. return."

"But there was an accident on the way?" Chu Liuxiang looked down at the wine glass in front of her, the clarified wine swayed slightly in the copper glass, reflecting half of the bright moon in the sky.

"I don't know if Mingyue came here suddenly because she got some news by accident. She only said that she would come, but she didn't say the reason. I'm afraid I can only ask her when she wakes up." Lu Xiaofeng stretched out his hand to himself Poured a glass of wine, shook his head and sighed, "This girl has been spoiled and spoiled since she was a child. She has never even left the gate of Wanmei Villa, and Ximen has never made her suffer. This time it is really difficult for her. After such a long journey , no wonder she collapsed from exhaustion."

Chu Liuxiang nodded slightly, then picked up the wine glass on the table and drank it down in one gulp.The cold wine entered his throat, obviously the wine was not strong, but he suddenly felt a burning sensation of strong wine piercing his intestines.Young Master Qingshan poured another glass of wine, smiled calmly and said, "Miss Ming and Master Ximen have a deep relationship, and I am also very moved."

Although his expression remained the same and the smile on his lips remained the same, Lu Xiaofeng somehow felt that something was wrong.This feeling passed by in a flash, and he didn't think about it, he just picked up the wine glass and sighed along with Chu Liuxiang's words, "Yes, with Ximen's cold temper, I never thought that he would still be able to let someone go." A day in the heart."

The corners of Chu Liuxiang's lips curled slightly, and she smiled lightly, not knowing whether she was laughing at others or herself.He drank the wine in the glass again in one gulp, and continued to pour the wine. The clear liquid reflected the calm and dark eyes of the man at the table.

Lu Xiaofeng had already taken another sip of wine at this time and continued to sigh, "But it's been so many years, Mingyue has treated Ximen as her elder brother since she was a child. Besides, she has been liked since she was a child, and she has been watching her grow from a little girl to what she is today. In Ximen's eyes, this great beauty who is overwhelmed by the country and the city is probably no different from her own sister."

Chu Liuxiang's hand holding the jug paused for a moment, "Brother?"

"Yes." Lu Xiaofeng picked up a piece of beef on the table, and returned without raising his head.

There was a moment of turmoil in the self-frozen Heart Lake, Chu Liuxiang still put down the wine pot calmly, "There have been rumors in the Jianghu that the Ming girl from Wanmei Villa is the fiancee of the owner of Ximen Villa."

"Fake." Lu Xiaofeng immediately laughed when he heard that, he put down his chopsticks and said with a smile, "Mingyue was only seven years old when she entered Wanmei Villa... Well, although I only recently found out that she is actually from the Guangling Ming family, but Her family really didn't have any friendship with Ximen's family before, so how could they be married to Ximen when she was so young. So these rumors in the world are all lies."

Chu Liuxiang nodded slightly, brushed her slender fingers over the red sandalwood folding fan, and casually pushed aside a few pieces of the fan, and said with a slight smile, "But Miss Ming has been living in Wanmei Villa but her surname is not Ximen, so it's no wonder people in Jianghu misunderstand her."

"That's true." Lu Xiaofeng nodded, his eyes inadvertently glanced at his fingers holding the folding fan, and suddenly paused slightly.Turning his eyes, he smiled and said, "As far as I know, Mingyue's stay in Wanmei Villa seems to be related to her family. This is her private matter. I didn't ask too much, but another reason is that the 'Liumai God' sword'."

"Which sword technique used by the owner of Ximen tonight?" Chu Liuxiang thought about that stunning sword light almost instantly.

"'Six Meridians Excalibur' has too high aptitude requirements, and no one has practiced it for many years, so that this peerless sword technique has been buried in the dust of history and no one knows its name. Back then, Mingyue couldn't bear the dust of the pearl, The young Yingjie, who has searched all over the world to use swords, wants to entrust this sword technique. And the person she chose is Ximen."

Chu Liuxiang touched the wine glass on the table with his right hand, nodded lightly, and speculated, "Mingyue's Ming family in Guangling should have had a kendo genius who surpassed generations and was able to leave such a peerless sword manual. That's why Mingyue Ye was able to have that shocking talk about the Six Realms of Swordsmanship in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

"It's a pity that too much time has passed, and we don't even know the name of this senior. The tide of the rivers and lakes never stops, and I don't know how many heroes' names have been covered up." Lu Xiaofeng couldn't help but sighed before continuing. "After all, the Six Meridians Excalibur is handed down from Mingyue's family. Even if she doesn't want to make its pearl dusty and let it come back out of the rivers and lakes, it's not good to really give it to someone who has nothing to do with her. So not long after she arrived at Wanmei Villa, she and Ximen is married to a foster relative. Now even if she calls Ximen 'brother', it will be fine."

"I see." Chu Liuxiang nodded slightly, with a faint smile on her lips.His expression seemed calm and unruffled, as if he just asked a casual question and simply solved a doubt.

If Hu Tiehua was in front of him, then this problem would have ended here.However, at this time sitting opposite him was Lu Xiaofeng.

He put down the wine glass in his hand, looked Chu Liuxiang up and down, and laughed teasingly as if he had already seen something, "Brother Chu, I'm afraid your purpose for asking this question is not pure."

Chu Liuxiang handed the wine glass to his lips, looked up at him and smiled slightly.

The bright moon in the sky has already disappeared into the clouds, and the place where the sky and the earth meet is pale.The long night is far away, and the light of day is approaching.