Chapter 377 Transition
At the end of summer and autumn, Zhou Ji came to Tai'an City in the cool drizzle.
As the capital of the Liyang Dynasty, Tai'an Gaocheng Shenchi is less aggressive than Beiliang's Lingzhou, and more profound.
Zhou Ji was walking on the street looking at the bustling street scene. He didn't rush into the palace to find the whereabouts of the Immortal Sword. If you are a master, try to find a way to sneak into it.
Gradually approaching the imperial palace, the number of pedestrians on the road became less and less. When Zhou Ji walked around the outer palace to a palace gate, the whole city of Tai'an seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, like misty waves, distant and quiet.
Zhou Ji stopped at the intersection, looking up at the towering red walls and green tiles. Zhou Ji did not feel the aura of the Immortal Trapping Sword during the first circle. That person has many deficiencies.
Tai An and his party may be a waste of time.
Zhou Ji shook his head, and suddenly lost the slightest interest in the palace in front of him.
The drizzle was like silk, falling in front of Zhou Ji, blocked by a layer of light blue transparent barrier, turning into wisps of water and sliding down the surroundings.
With his current level of cultivation, not to mention rain, even if meteorites fall from the sky, as long as it is not the kind that extinct dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period, he can flow flat against the eggshell.
However, body protection zhenqi can block the rain, but it cannot block everyone's sight.
The act of covering the streets with eggshells is a bit too ostentatious after all, and it doesn't fit Zhou Ji's character.
Looking for a restaurant along the Central Axis Avenue to shelter from the rain, the first floor was overcrowded, so Zhou Ji asked Xiaoer to take him to the second floor. Not long after he sat down, he heard a noise coming from downstairs.
Zhou Ji looked out the window, and saw the customers who were originally sitting on the first floor rushing out of the gate and fleeing, as if some scourge had come into the store.
"Your Highness, why don't we go back and wait for the weather to clear up in a few days."
As the footsteps approached, a slightly feminine voice stopped abruptly. Walking up the stairs was a haughty woman in a beige silk shirt, dressed as a man.
"Noisy." The woman frowned slightly, her face full of impatience, the two pearls spinning in her hands suddenly froze, and a middle-aged servant who followed quickly bowed her head and apologized repeatedly.
Seeing the luminous pearl in the woman's hand, the curiosity on the faces of the guests at the other tables suddenly turned into panic, and the high-spirited sons of the aristocratic family who were still talking loudly just now were also silent, shrinking their bodies and leaving the seats from the other side of the stairs to go downstairs.
The woman's arrogance seemed to come out from the bottom of her bones, bossing her around has become a habit, coupled with the brocade clothes, and the two jewels in her hands, to make such an arrogant move in the capital of Liyang, Zhou Jiyin had already guessed the identity of the other party.
Zhou Ji glanced at the white-faced, beardless and slightly fat servant next to the woman, and recognized her identity at a glance.
Eunuch? Cultivation is from the second grade.
In this way, it is really a scourge.
Noticing that there were still people on the second floor, the woman's eyebrows were cold and her eyes were full of impatience. The slightly fat **** stepped forward and walked up to Zhou Ji, and said indifferently: "Today the restaurant has been taken over by my son. Please move to another place to shelter from the rain."
"Oh, okay~" Zhou Ji didn't hesitate or question, picked up the flowerpot on the table and walked past the woman.
Seeing Zhou Ji's cooperation, the woman was a little curious. She didn't see the slightest awe and flattery in Zhou Ji's eyes. She glanced at the potted vines in her hand, and the woman said, "Don't you want to refute it?"
"What are you refuting?" Zhou Ji asked with a smile that was not a smile, "Your servant said that the restaurant was taken over by you, and it's a bit domineering to drive out the guests directly, but wouldn't I be the same as you if I forced them to stay?"
The woman looked as usual, and she was not angry at Zhou Ji's irony.
With her status, there are many people who are afraid of her, and there are also many people who try to get close to her.
Some people flatter, some pretend to be noble, and some show off their talents. In her opinion, Zhou Ji is the kind who pretends to be noble, and wants to show her face in this way and leave an impression on her.
Laughing coldly with disdain, the woman twirled the pearls, her palms suddenly grasped empty, she lowered her head and suddenly realized that her palms were empty, and the two night pearls that she was playing with just now disappeared at some point.
"Zhang Banban!" Princess Sui Zhu suddenly thought of something, turned her head suddenly, looked at the figure who was about to disappear at the stairs, and said coldly, "Stop him!"
The figure of the slightly fat **** next to him flickered, turning into a black light and chasing towards the stairs.
Looking down, there is no one on the stairs.
Zhang Dou was startled, and hurriedly chased downstairs. The guards guarding the first floor saw Manager Zhang's hurried expression, and hurried forward to salute.
The strong wind brought rain into the lobby.
Zhang Dou chased out the door, the clothes on his body were soaked by the rain in an instant, he turned to look at the restless guard, his face sank like water: "Where is the man who just went downstairs?"
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, "Who is that? Did you just go downstairs alone?"
"Why is there no one? He went downstairs and I followed him, didn't you see?" Zhang Du wiped the rain from his face, gave a general description of Zhou Ji's figure, and added, "This man still has a Holding a flower pot with a vine planted in it."
"My lord, we have been guarding the hall, and we really didn't see the person your lord described."
Zhang Du's gloomy gaze swept across the crowd, seeing them all with mournful faces and hard-to-say expressions, he already believed it a little bit in his heart.
Looking up at an open window on the second floor, there seemed to be a sound of shattering tiles. Zhang Du secretly thought that it was bad, jumped up directly, and rushed back to the second floor anxiously.
Roof ridge, cornice.
Fine rain fell from the invisible air wall in front of Zhou Ji.
After thousands of years, the old business of being a thief has never been left behind. Zhou Ji played with the Ye Mingzhu that had just passed away from Princess Sui Zhu, and left a letter for Princess Sui Zhu, telling her that the Ye Ming Pearl is actually a radioactive substance. The substance, if exposed to it for too long, will harm the body, such as hair loss, premature aging, dizziness, nausea, and tooth loss.
For the sake of her health, I took it away to play for a few days, and returned it to her when I saw her next time.
Using this as a contract, the money is stolen.
Princess Sui Zhu looked at the short note in her hand with an ugly expression, crumpled it into a ball and remained on the ground, raised her foot to crush it, but hesitated for a moment, then bent down to pick it up.
"Stealth? I think it's a small belly!"
On the other side, Beiliang Palace.
Xu Fengnian already knew the result, so he didn't get too excited, but the calmer he was, the more Xu Xiao felt the turbulent waves hidden beneath the calmness.
This will be Xu Fengnian's first game with him head-on.
Back when Xu Zhihu married to Jiangnan for marriage, Xu Fengnian had quarreled and quarreled.
When Xu Weixiong was sent to Shangyin Academy, Xu Fengnian left home for three years just out of anger.
These methods of resistance never wavered Xu Xiao's decision.
Now, even Huang Man'er was taken to Wudang, Xu Fengnian did not make any noise or get angry about it.
He chose to go to Wudang in person to bring Huang Man'er back.
Xu Xiao looked at the burning flames in Xu Fengnian's eyes, and his heart was filled with relief.
Scheming and calculating, he issued a military order in advance, ordering Fengziying to close the city gates and prohibit Xu Fengnian from leaving the city.
The purpose is to make Xu Fengnian 'desperate', rely on his ingenuity to find the breaking point, and subdue Ning Emei.
Everything is logical. It seems that Xu Fengnian is facing a desperate situation and breaking the situation, but in fact, every step is in Xu Xiao's calculations.
Looking at the closed city gate and the Fengzi camp guards in front of him with a sinking face, Xu Fengnian turned to look at Lao Kui and said, "Xu Xiao seems determined not to let me go out of the city."
Old Kui shook his wrist knife, the iron chain made a crisp sound, and suggested: "Do you want to kill it?"
"They are also following orders and shouldn't pay their lives." Xu Fengnian shook his head.
Old Kui clicked his tongue and glanced left and right, "Then let's change the city gate?"
Xu Fengnian frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice, "Xu Xiao will not leave such a loophole."
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work either. You are the prince of Beiliang. Is there no one you know in Fengziying who can secretly release you?" Lao Kui said impatiently.
The figure of Ning Emei appeared in Xu Fengnian's mind for the first time, and then he sneered, "Soldiers attacked the city and surrounded three gates, and Xu Xiao deliberately arranged Fengzi Battalion to guard the gate to give me a chance. This is what he gave me. choice, but I choose not to choose."
Xu Fengnian turned around and left as he said that, the old man quickly followed after seeing this, and the two made a few turns and came to a city wall. Xu Fengnian looked up at the Lingzhou city wall, which was more than ten meters away, and said in a deep voice, "The city gate can't get out. , we will turn over!"
"Turn it over?" Lao Kui took a few steps back, looked up at the towering city wall, swallowed his saliva, and shook his head like a rattle, "Boy Xu, are you joking? Don't go."
"I remember the last time senior got out of trouble at the bottom of the lake." Xu Fengnian said with bright eyes when he saw the old man retreating.
It’s okay if you don’t explain it, but once you explain it, Lao Kui thinks of the kick that Zhou Ji stepped on when he leaned up and took off.
The external injury is not serious, but the internal injury is not small.
Every time I think about it, I will tap my toes to the ground, wishing I could go back to the bottom of the lake again and get out of the water normally again.
Xu Fengnian saw Lao Kui's dark face turning red, and quickly explained, "Senior, I misunderstood. I mean, senior can use the chain knife to turn and shift in the air, and climbing the city wall should not be a problem."
Lao Kui's expression softened, and he thought to himself, "It's not impossible, but I went up alone, what should you do? You can't let me hang you up the wall together? I can't do it."
Xu Fengnian took out Xiudong and Chunlei that he had borrowed from Nangong Pushe, jumped towards the top of the wall, borrowed a little force on the wall, and flew several feet with one lift, the blade inserted into the crack of the stone, and with another force, he went up again Leaping a certain distance, flowing clouds and flowing water, already halfway up in a blink of an eye.
Everyone in the family knew that Zhou Ji passed on Xu Fengnian's set of lightness exercises before he left, but no one knew that lightness exercises were light exercises, but the exercises were cultivating immortals.
In the past two months, Xu Fengnian has been hiding his practice progress, for fear of attracting Xu Xiao's attention, even Lao Kui and Wei Shuyang have not noticed.
Hanging on the wall of the city wall, Xu Fengnian looked down at the old man who was still on the ground, beckoning him to follow up quickly. When he came to the battlements, Xu Fengnian turned his kite and jumped up the city wall, and the old man followed closely behind. He jumped down the wall, inserted the blade into the wall to slow down the fall, and fell to the ground in a blink of an eye amidst loud shouts.
"Go!"
Hearing the loud noise of the opening of the city gate, Xu Fengnian knew that Fengziying would come out to stop him, so he hurriedly called the old man to leave, but he was a step too late, and was surrounded by Fengziying led by Ning Emei on the wasteland outside the city.
Xu Fengnian used Xu Xiao's military order to quibble, only saying that Xu Xiao forbade him to go out of the city, and did not say that he would be taken back after leaving the city. Taking the risk to climb over the city wall was to pick up the little prince. After returning, his expression could not help but waver a bit.
In addition, Chu Lushan's men happened to return from Wudang Mountain, and Ning Emei reconfirmed that Xu Fengnian's words were true, and immediately became a little anxious, and immediately said that he would go to Wudang Mountain with his son to pick them up.
Zhou Ji, who was thousands of miles away, didn't know what happened to Beiliang. At this time, he had just left Tai'an City and was also heading towards Wudang Mountain.
Wudang is far away in the territory of Beiliang. Zhou Ji took the land route when he went to Liyang, but this time he returned to Beiliang and changed to the water route.
Go south to the Shujiang River, go upstream, and pass through Henan and Qingzhou. This is the realm of King Jing'an. On the north bank of the Shujiang River, there is also a school built by the riverside, named Shangyin.
Zhou Ji remembered that Xu Fengnian once said that the second sister Xu Weixiong was studying here, and wanted to visit, but because they met a wonderful person on the way, the two made an appointment to go north along the river, so they changed their itinerary halfway and took a merchant ship Go all the way to Beiliang.
The waterway in the south of the Yangtze River is convenient, and there are many merchants on the boat going to Beiliang. The image of Zhou Ji holding a flower pot in one hand and playing with stone beads in the other naturally attracts all kinds of weird eyes.
The son named Zhao Kai is one of them.
Zhou Ji didn't expect that he would meet Xu Fengnian's brother-in-law when he went out of the house. They chatted happily all the way, and when they talked about the stone beads in Zhou Ji's hand, Zhao Kai had a rather strange expression.
"When Princess Sui Zhu was born, the Sui Kingdom paid tribute to two rare night pearls in the world, but their shape and size are quite similar to the two in Brother Zhou's hands."
Zhou Ji laughed dumbfoundedly, stretched out his hand to clamp the flowerpot under his arm, covered the stone bead with both hands, leaving only a thin gap and asked Zhao Kai, "You call this Ye Mingzhu?"
Zhao Kai didn't understand what Zhou Ji meant, he looked down between his fingers, and said in a daze, "It seems...it really doesn't shine much."
Could it be that I read it wrong?
Zhao Kai looked suspicious.
He has been studying in the Shangyin Academy, and he didn't know about the theft of Zhao Fengya's Sui beads. He just saw that the round beads in Zhou Ji's hands were too similar to Zhao Fengya's two, and thought that "brother-in-law" had met "brother-in-law", so She just stepped forward to strike up a conversation, but now it seems that it was just a misunderstanding.
(Written, deleted and deleted many times, still dissatisfied, my mind is muddled, and I am confused.)
(Forget it, give up, lie flat, stay in the comfort zone honestly, open up!)
(end of this chapter)