Cloud of the Qing Dynasty

"It can be said so." Zhang Chi admitted without hesitation, "The establishment of Baotou was originally manipulated by Lord Hou behind the scenes. There is a secret passage in the study of Lord Hou, and the exit leads directly to Baotou's headquarters in the capital. On weekdays, I would take the secret road to find Lord Hou to report the news. On that day, I went in to find Lord Hou through Baoqian’s headquarters as usual. When I saw that the mechanism of the secret road was open, I thought it was Lord Hou who knew I was coming and opened it specially. The door of the secret passage was waiting for me, but when I walked in, I found Lord Hou lying in a pool of blood..."

Zhang Chi told Mu Liuyun everything that happened afterwards in detail, and Mu Liuyun said, "In this way, Princess Yaoping harmed you?"

"It is true that Princess Yaoping insisted on putting the crime of killing Lord Hou on my head, but I don't think she may be the murderer, because she has no reason to do so." Zhang Chi said, "The relationship between husband and wife No matter what the relationship is, it is always a community of interests, and the death of Lord Hou will not benefit her at all."

Mu Liuyun said lightly: "What is the truth, you will find out when you arrest her and ask her."

Zhang Chi quickly grabbed Mu Liuyun's wrist: "No! Don't be fooled, she is the emperor's aunt after all, and if she fails to do so, she will implicate the entire Shangqing Palace."

"I understand, let's not talk about that first, you just need to rest in peace and heal your injuries." Mu Liuyun tucked in the quilt, and urged in a somewhat forceful tone, "Sleep."

Zhang Chi was also really tired, although he was preoccupied, he fell asleep quickly.

Xin Lanshan came back two days later. With the special care of this doctor, Zhang Chi's injury quickly recovered. In order to let Zhang Chi recover from his injury, Xin Lanshan cut down the moso bamboo in the forest behind the house and made a special treatment for Zhang Chi. The hospital bed was specially made wide so that they could live in the pharmacy next door.

Mu Liuyun often patrols nearby to guard against those who want to catch Zhang Chi and go back to receive the reward, but after many days of patrolling, he has not seen a single person. Maybe Long Jiu successfully diverted the attention of the pursuers, maybe The terrain in Miaojiang was complex and dangerous. People were forced to accept the guess that Zhang Chi had no bones left and gave up the search.

As the peaceful days passed day by day, Mu Liuyun felt as if they had been forgotten by the outside world.

This is not bad for him, he quickly got used to the secluded life in the deep mountains of southern Xinjiang, which is actually similar to his life on Mount Hua, waking up, eating, practicing, and teaching at a fixed time every day. Zhang Chi writes, although Xin Lanshan's thatched hut is not as comfortable and tidy as Qingfeng Pavilion, and the chickens and geese raised make people feel noisy, but with Zhang Chi by his side, these are not big problems.

Zhang Chi started to get out of bed when his injury got better, helped Xin Lanshan wash and dry medicinal materials, did some chores that would not affect his recovery, and prepared three meals a day for Mu Liuyun every day. There was an active atmosphere among the quiet people, but Mu Liuyun noticed that sometimes he would stare into the distance for a long time in a daze, or when he was washing the dishes and picking vegetables, he would suddenly sigh, and then smiled at him and pretended to be happy. Nothing happened.

While guarding the medicine stove for decocting medicine, Zhang Chi looked at the smoke rising from the stove in a daze again, and Mu Liuyun called him, "Zhang Chi?"

Zhang Chi looked up at him as if waking up from a dream: "Ah? What's the matter?"

He was about to stand up when Mu Liuyun came to his side and put one hand on his shoulder: "I asked Xin Lanshan, your injury has stabilized, as long as you don't use force with others in the next few months , there will be no more repetitions, if you want to leave, we can leave at any time."

Zhang Chi scratched his head and sighed distressedly: "I didn't think so. The most sensible thing to do now is to hide. The longer the better, the longer everyone thinks I'm dead, and then disguise myself and change my name. That's the safest thing to do."

Mu Liuyun said: "But I don't want to see you unhappy all day long."

"Why am I depressed? It's rare to be able to spend a few days with you so peacefully and glue-like. It's just like a fairy." Zhang Chi grinned and wanted to pull Mu Liuyun into his arms. Mu Liuyun also let him sit on his lap, and when Zhang Chi wanted to kiss him, he reached out and covered his mouth: "Don't mess around, to be honest, you really want to be in the mountains like this Do you want to stay?"

Zhang Chi took a deep breath as if he was sniffing his palm, then sighed, and finally stopped smiling: "It's not that I don't like this kind of life, there are mountains and rivers, and I have you as my company... But sometimes I still can't help but think, who is the real murderer who killed Lord Hou, and why did he do this? I also miss my friends, I don't know how Xiaomi is doing now, is he still worrying about me or running around, nine Is there any doubt about my brother after I go back? There is also General Lu. He will come forward to clarify for me after he knows this matter, but the eldest princess is a relative of the emperor after all. It will be proven. And you...have never returned to the Shangqing Palace, what if they need you for something, what if someone finds out that you are with me and gets involved in the Shangqing Palace?"

"I have nothing to do with Shangqing Palace." Mu Liuyun finally told Zhang Chi about this until today.

"What?!" Zhang Chi's eyes widened in shock, "Why?"

"I have asked the senior brother in charge to expel me from the Shangqing Palace." Mu Liuyun said flatly, "One person does one's job and one person is responsible. It is my personal business to protect the court and criminals, and we cannot allow people to blame them."

"But... you're like this..." Zhang Chi hesitated to speak, murmured several times, and finally gave up with a long sigh, hugged Mu Liuyun's waist and buried his head on his shoulder, saying, "I'm the one who got you into trouble."

"I still say the same thing - everything is my own decision." Mu Liuyun pushed his arm away from his embrace, "The matter is now, you don't need to have unnecessary worries, where will you be in the future? It’s there, just do what you want to do, and I will definitely protect you.”

***

Zhang Chi finally decided to venture out of the mountain. Since Mu Liuyun became a "traitor" of the Shangqing Palace for him, and his merits and demerits have been tied to him, he can only try to clean up his crimes so that Mu Liuyun can be upright again. walking in the sun.

A few days later, Zhang Chi, who was ready, bid farewell to Xin Lanshan, traveled a long distance across the mountains to avoid people's eyes and ears, and finally appeared in a market full of people coming and going, fish and dragons mixed together.

Zhang Chi specially kept his beard unshaved for several days, and used some disguise methods to make himself look ten years older, gained dozens of pounds, and looked completely rough and sloppy, let alone It was the person who came looking for him after looking at the arrest warrant. Even people who knew him well might not be able to recognize his current appearance.

Xin Lanshan said he couldn't use force, so he didn't even carry his own weapon. He just carried two swords crossed on his back. One was an ordinary iron sword with no special features, and the other was tightly wrapped in cloth Yan Shishi, it can't be seen from the appearance that it is the water-stopping sword that Mu Liuyun became famous in the world.

And Mu Liuyun himself is not the kind of person who is good at putting on airs. Zhang Chi didn't put on any exaggerated disguises for him, but just slightly modified his eyebrows and eyes, which made his facial features look completely different. Putting on a navy blue Confucian shirt for him, and not wearing any weapons, Mu Liuyun now looks like a scholar with somewhat unruly eyebrows, which is difficult for ordinary people who only have a few acquaintances to recognize him. Even though Mu Liuyun's desolate personality has already spread his reputation far and wide in the world, there are very few people who really know him well.

They found a restaurant and sat down to order food. After eating for a full meal, no one recognized them at all. Zhang Chi felt relieved, and began to gossip about martial arts with someone at the next table. The anecdotal man inquired about the news: "This elder brother seems to be very well-informed. Let me ask you about someone. Do you know Liu Quande, the leader of the Crazy Saber Gang?"

The man looked at Zhang Chi suspiciously: "What are you asking about Liu Quande?"

Zhang Chi smiled: "Personal grievances, brother, don't ask too much."

"If you came to seek revenge on him, then you are too late. Some time ago, Liu Quande was found dead in a hut deep in the mountain. I don't know who did it. He died a miserable death. .”

"Dead?" Zhang Chi pretended to be surprised. "The last time I heard about him was that he came to this area to arrest a wanted criminal named Zhang Chi. Why did he die? Could it be that Zhang Chi killed him in reverse?" Yet?"

"Who knows, I heard that Zhang Chi's martial arts is not very good, he should not be able to defeat Liu Quande, not to mention that Liu Quande brought a lot of people with him, all of them died, tsk tsk."

Another person next to him took up the conversation: "You said... Could it be that Zhang Chi is actually a hidden master? I heard that the reason why he was wanted was that he sneaked into the Hou's mansion and killed Yongninghou. So what is Yongninghou doing?" People, the defense of the house must be very tight, how could a person with poor martial arts do such a thing?"

"Don't you know yet? The capital city has withdrawn the arrest warrant for Zhang Chi. I heard that there is something strange about this matter. Zhang Chi probably did not kill him. The capital also sent another imperial envoy to thoroughly investigate the case."

"If the man wasn't killed by Zhang Chi, why was there such a commotion some time ago? A large number of Jianghu people searched the sky in the Miaojiang area, saying that as long as Zhang Chi was caught, he would be rich, rich, and even an official, but in a blink of an eye , If you say you have changed your mind, will you change your mind?"

"Isn't the court always like this, wronging people casually, no matter how the dynasty changes, it's us ordinary people who will suffer in the end..."

"It's just..."

The topic of those people began to criticize the court, and no one paid any attention to the two people who had inquired about the news just now. Zhang Chi and Mu Liuyun looked at each other, checked out and left the restaurant.

The author has something to say: The transitional chapter is so difficult to write..._(〒ω〒」∠)_