Snake Tale

A gust of cold wind with a "huh" rushed open the thin door leaf, wrapped in the smell of grass and trees in early spring, and hovered low in this small room.Luo Wuxie stared at the sixteen characters, feeling a chill.Luo Yi's heart was also full of turmoil, and thousands of thoughts flashed through him.He tapped the thin paper with his fingers and said:

"No shirt, what do you think?"

Hearing his uncle's inquiry, Luo Wuxie hurriedly sorted out the clues in his chaotic mind: "I... I think the first half of the sentence should be the person who planned to inform Shen Yuzhu about the 'Ping Fei' who came to find him. Yu' is actually not a student of Qingyan Mansion, so you have to be careful; the second half of the sentence... the word "save your life" naturally refers to the meaning of prolonging your life, and of course the gentleman refers to Shen Yuzhu himself. I guess... this It was the other party who told Shen Yuzhu to wait patiently for Fuzi to arrive, and then Shen Yuzhu would be safe and sound, right?"

Luo Yi said: "It's generally good, but who this 'gentleman' refers to needs to be carefully considered. Although Shen Yuzhu is famous and shameful, he has no fear of his life. How can he talk about saving his life?"

He gritted his teeth and sneered, "You might as well think about it again, who was the 'gentleman' who was involved with Fuzi back then, and is now in danger of life and death under our hands?"

Luo Wuxie concentrated on contemplation, and suddenly his face turned pale: "You mean...the 'gentleman' refers to the Huanzhuang family?"

Luo Yi said: "That's right! Since Shen Yuzhu can see through my plot against the Dai Kingdom, he must also see through my intention to kill the Huanzhuang clan. Fuzi is quite a wise man. The reason why I was in advance Notifying Fuzi to escape is precisely to avoid confrontation between Fuzi and other princes, which ruins my plan to divide and attack. I thought he was exiled to Chu State, where the mountains and rivers are vast, and he will never return, but I didn’t expect Shen Yuzhu to be like this He has great powers and coaxed this person over! If Shen Yuzhu warns the Huanzhuang clan and Fuzi proves it, our plan to encircle and suppress the Gong clan will come to naught—or worse, the Gong clan will jump over the wall and take risks, and gather government soldiers to fight back We took a bite, then, then—”

Luo Yi stood up, feeling restless, walked back and forth a few steps with his hands behind his back, and said to himself, "Humph, I've been trying to pretend to be comfortable all day long...but I'm in this narrow room that's less than ten steps away. , secretly plotting, thinking every night, how to turn me against the general - how far has he counted? The soldiers and horses are still in Changshan, and it will take at least two days for the whole army to return, he will definitely attack today and tomorrow, so I can only sit and wait for death?"

The more Luo Wuxie thought about it, the more frightened he became. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a long report: "I tell you, the man who went to arrest the book thief has returned!"

"How?" Luo Yi asked hastily.

The attendant knelt down on one knee and said ashamedly: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty! Unexpectedly, that scholar is a master of martial arts, and he managed to escape under the siege of more than a dozen people. However, the man left behind in a hurry during the fight. Things, please have a look at them—”

The attendant spread his hands, holding a bunch of silk books the size of a finger in his palm.Luo Yi unfolded it and took a look. It was carefully written in seal characters with iron lines: "The soldiers and horses of the Luo family are all in Changshan, and we should take the opportunity to attack those who are unprepared. Please wait at the post house for a while, and I will go to meet you with the public." Yin. The king's revival, my shame, is only today."

Luo Yi's face was as frosty as he clutched the silk book tightly, "Shen Yuzhu," he said with a sneer to himself, "do you want to see me sitting in a poor city, waiting to die with nothing to do? How do you know that I can't take a chance! —— Come , rectify the soldiers and horses, and hurry to the posthouse outside the city with me—we must find Fuzi before he meets the Duke, so that he will never be able to speak!"

The light and shadow of the sundial had moved to Mao's hour, and Luo's war horse, which had just entered the stables and had not yet taken off the saddle, galloped on the loess road in Jiangcheng again, raising waves of panicky dust.

The more you go to the outskirts of the city, the heavier the mist is, and the rain-steamed sky wraps the morning sun layer by layer, and occasionally a dark cloud full of wind and thunder passes by, heavy and heavy, as if it is going to be overturned and crushed from all directions.Luo Yi looked at the desolate dense forest all around him, and suddenly his heart moved, and he reined in his horse with a "wow".

"What's the name of this place...?".

The subordinate replied: "Reporting to the Lord, this place used to be an abandoned altar in the previous dynasty. Later, the villagers in the mountains called it 'Heming Hill'."

Luo Yi smiled slightly: "Sure enough, he is a villager who is ignorant of world affairs. Cranes can sing in lakes and swamps, but I've never heard a long cry in hills..." He suddenly thought of something, his eyes widened suddenly, and he suddenly turned to the road The broken monument next to it.

With a jump in his chest, he pressed his bridle and walked slowly to the broken stele surrounded by vines, and with a flick of his whip, he uncovered those heavily wrapped vines, revealing three engraved seal characters on the stele:

Rumeikan.

In the blink of an eye, Luo Yi came to understand everything. He understood what it means to "save life" and who is a "gentleman"—his heart was like a boil, he reined in and shouted: "Quick retreat——"

Before the words were finished, a feathered arrow shot from a distance, firmly piercing Lu Er's right eye!Lu Er let out a long and shrill hiss, went mad from the pain, and leaped high into the air with his front hooves.Luo Yi had sharp eyes and quick hands, slapped the saddle and jumped off the horse with his strength.He raised his head hastily and looked around, only to see densely armed warriors appearing densely on the deserted sacrificial platform, condescending, and surrounded them in the dense forest.

Among the archers who were lined up on the high platform and ready to go, only one person has put away his longbow, leaned on the edge of the platform, and calmly overlooked the battle situation.Wearing a narrow-sleeved Hu suit, a black crown and jade hairpin, a bow behind his back, and a jade around his waist, he looks like a rich man who has nothing to do in spring.

The people around turned their backs on their backs and screamed in confusion, but Luo Yi ignored him completely and just stared at him tightly.That was to describe Shen Yuzhu, who was dressed in a completely unfamiliar attire, but with the indifferent and almost careless eyes that he was all too familiar with.

— neither ecstasy nor resentment.

Arrows and arrows were fired all over the sky like rain, and the soldiers in the audience panicked and howled in the sky.Shen Yuzhu turned a blind eye, just folded his arms, and sighed lightly:

"Poor green ear."