Chapter 428 Ending
This time, Xu Fengnian didn't plan to stay here for a few more days on the way to the Yin School Palace, so after chatting with Xu Weixiong, they walked towards the ferry together.
Seeing the flag logo on the boat, Xu Weixiong recognized it as the logo of the Xuanyuan family. Thinking of the big commotion in the Xuanyuan family in recent days, he asked, "The boat of the Xuanyuan family?"
Xu Fengnian showed complacency, and said with a smile: "Now it's mine."
Xu Weixiong snorted softly, and said: "It's okay if the boat is yours, don't let the future people also belong to you."
"What do you mean?" Xu Fengnian stopped in his tracks and said dumbfounded.
Xu Weixiong also stopped, and turned to look at him: "I heard that Xuanyuan Jingcheng broke through the Celestial Phenomena Realm and took over Huishan. You escorted his daughter Xuanyuan Qingfeng back?"
"Hey~ I have no idea about Xuanyuan Qingfeng! Besides, it was Lao Zhou who saved her at that time." Xu Fengnian said helplessly.
"You don't need to explain to me, Jiang Ni will believe it." Xu Weixiong snorted coldly, blocking Xu Fengnian's explanation.
Xu Fengnian said anxiously: "I used to be fake, fake, you know that."
"My son, Miss."
Shu Yu, who was sitting on duty at the stern of the boat, saw the two people stand up quickly, walked up to them and saluted respectfully.
Xu Fengnian responded briefly, looked left and right, and asked, "Where are the others?"
"Senior Li and Mr. Zhou just left, and everyone else is in the cabin." Shu shyly smiled.
Xu Weixiong helped them prepare a place to rest before, Xu Fengnian thought they were going to the place to rest, so he didn't care too much, and asked casually, "I remember, shouldn't the blue bird be on duty today?"
"She switched with me." Shu shame replied.
Xu Weixiong said indifferently: "Those maids in your courtyard don't see eye to eye with me, are they avoiding me?"
It's not just the prince's Wutong Garden, I'm afraid that no one in the entire Beiliang Palace dares to meet Xu Weixiong's eyes.
Xu Fengnian understood what was going on in his heart, but he tried to persuade him with kind words, showing a silly smile, "What's the matter?"
"Don't pretend to be stupid." Xu Weixiong gave Xu Fengnian a sideways look and shook his head.
At this moment, a childish "Second Sister" came from the boat.
Only the sound was heard but no one was seen, until the footsteps of pedaling were getting closer and closer, and a small head appeared on the steps of the bridge and embankment, with a gradually deformed smile, running towards this side at a trot .
"Who is this?"
Xu Weixiong glanced at the child who was only seven or eight years old in front of him, frowned slightly, looked at Xu Fengnian and said.
Long Yuxuan walked closer, looked at the beautiful and glamorous Xu Weixiong, and the grin on the corner of his mouth grew bigger and bigger: "Second Sister, I am your brother who has never met before!"
Xu Fengnian casually said: "I picked it up on the road, and said Xu Xiao is his father."
"I finally met my second sister, and I have a family again!"
Taking advantage of Xu Weixiong's listening to Xu Fengnian's explanation, Long Yuxuan opened his arms, and rushed towards Xu Weixiong full of joy.
When they were on the boat, Qingniao Shu shamed them to take into account Long Yuxuan's fake identity and age, but Xu Weixiong didn't care about it at all.
Zhou Ji, who came from the corridor on the other side, saw an arc drawn above the embankment, was slightly taken aback, his consciousness swept over him, and he couldn't help laughing.
Li Chungang didn't notice Zhou Ji, and walked past him without stopping, "You heard it too, this kid not only wanted to kill Xu Fengnian, but also specially recruited experts to deal with you, you just listened, didn't you respond? "
"If you want to become 'Wang Xianzhi', you still have to rely on yourself. Although he has difficulties along the way, but because of us, he has a little bit of smooth sailing and lack of tempering." Zhou Ji raised his eyes and looked at the dragon flopping in the water. Yuxuan smiled faintly, "Zhao Kaikong has strategies, but lacks strength. Keeping him here can just help Xu Fengnian sharpen his sword."
Hearing that Zhou Ji wanted to use Zhao Kai as a whetstone, Li Chungang was suddenly stunned, and said, "You really have good intentions."
"It's not because of good intentions, but because Zhao Kai can only be killed by Xu Fengnian." Zhou Ji glanced sideways at Li Chungang, and sighed, "Do you know the origin of Zhao Kai's identity?"
Li Chungang frowned slightly, thinking: "His surname is Zhao, so he is from the royal family?"
"That's right, he is the illegitimate son of the current emperor among the people." Zhou Ji nodded and said, "I once met him once, and I know his name. Xu Fengnian started investigating his identity a long time ago."
"Although the details are unknown, I can already guess the general idea." Zhou Ji sighed, "His mother is a daughter of the people. After she died of illness, Han Diao Temple brought him back to the palace, and he obtained the title of prince. Han Diao Temple Deviated from the center of the court, lost half of the authority. What happened in the palace? The North Star news report could not penetrate, but not long after Zhao Kai entered the palace, Han Diao Temple tried every means to get him to study in Shangyin Academy, and won him the opportunity to assassinate Xu Fengnian Chance"
Zhou Ji told Li Chungang the information that Shu Shu had sorted out for more than half a year, and Li Chungang showed a puzzled expression, "What does this have to do with whether Xu Fengnian should kill him himself?"
"The relationship lies in Han Diao Temple." Zhou Ji sighed softly, and said with a gloomy expression, "The person who attacked Princess Beiliang hid so deeply that only the royal family could cover it up. As the sword crown of the Wu family, Xu Fengnian's mother is not weak at all. In the imperial palace, the most powerful master is none other than Han Diaosi, and when we find Wang Xianzhi in Wudi City and ask about the affairs of the imperial city that day, we can confirm whether he is the one who made the attack that day."
"It is inconvenient for outsiders to intervene in the revenge of killing the mother."
Li Chungang nodded slightly, with a solemn expression.
By the time they arrived at the ferry, Xu Weixiong had already left, leaving only Shu Shuo on the shore.
"My son, senior."
Li Chungang already had a bad impression of Shu Shu, and with her 'betrayal' just now, he said disdainfully, "How did Zhao Kai buy you?"
Shu shame glanced at Zhou Ji secretly, and said respectfully: "Return to senior, he promised to give me "Bai Di Bao Pu Jue"."
"Isn't this what you want?" Li Chungang said disdainfully.
Shu shyly said respectfully: "The junior wants it, but the junior wants to get it alive."
Li Chungang's concentration on kendo does not mean that he is a fool.
Hearing that Shu Shu was worried that Xu Fengnian would be killed and that he would be hunted down by Beiliang cavalry and Zhou Ji in the folk arena, Li Chungang frowned slightly, coupled with Shu Shu's glance at Zhou Ji just now, and Zhou Ji's presence without hesitation, Directly exposing his 'betrayal', he immediately understood, and felt even more displeased with her.
When they entered the cabin, they saw Xu Fengnian who was waiting for them at the table, frowned slightly, and sat down on the opposite side, pretending to be unintentional: "So you know all this, asking me to see Zhao Kai is to test me ?”
Xu Fengnian looked at Li Chungang sincerely, and said seriously: "Senior misunderstood, thanks to senior and Lao Zhou, I have come to this day, I owe you, you don't owe me, this time is definitely not a test, but I don't want to Deceiving seniors, no matter what decision you make, I will gladly accept it."
Li Chungang thought of Zhou Ji's mention of the whetstone just now, and pretended to test: "Then what if I promise Zhao Kai to let him kill you?"
"He wanted to kill me, I should have done it myself." Xu Fengnian said seriously, "It's still the same sentence, you don't owe me anything, and Lao Zhou doesn't owe me anything. I can only thank you and dare not kidnap with affection."
What Xu Fengnian said was exactly the same as Zhou Ji, but Li Chungang was touched by his sincerity, and all the dissatisfaction in his heart disappeared. He turned his head and said, "I'm pretty good at talking."
"Speak from the heart." Xu Fengnian said seriously.
Zhou Ji joked, "That's not what you said when you talked with your sister, did you?"
Xu Fengnian was not surprised that Zhou Ji could hear the conversation between him and his second sister.
As early as when he met Zhou Ji outside the city of Lingzhou, Xu Fengnian had unreasonable trust in him, like a reunion of a best friend who had been separated for thousands of years, allowing him to let go of all guards and relax like a child.
"If she didn't say that, how could she let me go?" Xu Fengnian relaxed his shoulders, and said bitterly, "You don't know, she has been holding the sword in the room, I'm afraid Which sentence is wrong, she drew her sword and slashed at it on the spot."
Speaking of this, Xu Fengnian quickly looked at Li Chungang, "Everything I said to senior is true."
Li Chungang was just touched by Xu Fengnian's sincerity, and seeing his frivolous appearance again, he laughed out of anger, turned around and looked out the window.
Xu Fengnian clasped his hands together and made an apology gesture towards Li Chungang, then looked at Zhou Ji and said, "But Lao Zhou, what I tell you comes from the bottom of my heart"
Xu Fengnian said with a straight face: "I have always kept in mind that you have helped me too much. Unfortunately, I have not been able to help you find what you want. I don't know how to repay you."
"Don't engage in sensationalism." Zhou Ji raised his hand to block Xu Fengnian, preventing him from continuing, and said indifferently: "There is no need to repay, just don't die in Wudi City."
Zhou Ji told Xu Fengnian that Li Chungang would go to Wudi City to meet Wang Xianzhi again, combined with the news revealed by Zhao Kai, it is not difficult to guess that this person wanted to assassinate Xu Fengnian while everyone was paying attention to this shocking battle.
Xu Fengnian held Chunlei Xiudong in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "In this case, it is indeed time to make a break with him."
Ever since he knew Zhao Kai's name, Xu Fengnian began to use Beiliang's intelligence network to investigate his identity.
Get to the bottom of Zhao Kai's background.
Turning his head to signal Shu Shu to move, Shu Shu left the room, took out a birdcage from the cabin, opened the cage door, five carrier pigeons flew up from the boat, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
After a few days, the big ship borrowed the river to enter the sea, and a towering city could be seen vaguely.
Returning to Wudi City after decades, everything here seems like yesterday.
It’s just the people who came here, and they are no longer the high-spirited young sword **** holding a wooden horse and bull.
The strong wind on the sea lifted Li Chungang's empty right arm and long sleeve, and his gray and messy beard and hair danced wildly with the wind, but at this moment his heart became extraordinarily calm.
It's calmer than it was decades ago.
This trip has finally come to an end.
Zhou Ji walked to the bow of the ship and looked at the city wall of Emperor Wu. Several bright lights flickered on the top of the city, which were still dazzling and hurting his eyes after more than ten miles apart.
Xu Fengnian was dazzled by the bright light, pointed to the source of the light and said, "What's on it?"
"Countless masters of the rivers and lakes have come to the city for decades to fight, and on this city wall are the weapons left by the losers." Li Chungang said calmly, "It is much more than when I came here."
"Old Huang's sword case is there, and it's time for me to help him get it back."
Xu Fengnian stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the city wall in the distance, with firm eyes and a solemn expression.
"Is there? Didn't you see it?"
Zhou Ji glanced across the city, intending to use his spiritual sense to spy, but felt a faint danger emanating from the city of Emperor Wu, which seemed to be similar to Hong Xixiang, but even more terrifying than him.
Heaven and man are heaven and man again.
Zhou Ji's thousand-year cultivation base is naturally not afraid of Wang Xianzhi today. Even if the other party awakens his memory and regains his cultivation base, he will not be able to incarnate the heavenly dao of the night world, let alone resist the four swords of Zhu Xian.
In a blink of an eye, the big ship docked, and everyone disembarked and walked towards the city gate on foot.
Wudi City was originally an isolated city independent of the coast of the East China Sea. The gates were open, and only pedestrians could come and go without guards.
Xu Fengnian looked at the wide open city gate and asked in surprise, "Is there no one guarding this Emperor Wu City?"
Wei Shuyang, who followed beside him, explained: "Wang Xianzhi alone can defeat an army. Emperor Wudi's city is open to the city, and there is no army to defend the city."
Zhou Ji looked up at the weapons inserted into the city wall, some were rusty, some were clean and shiny, except that Lao Huang's sword box and the invisible sword energy he left for Lao Huang's life were missing.
Xu Fengnian didn't look at the city, but turned his head to look at the East China Sea facing the city gate in a daze.
After waiting for a long time, Wei Shuyang asked softly: "My lord, shall we not go to the city?"
"Go to town."
Xu Fengnian looked dazed, and his eyes were moist.
Take the lead and enter from the west gate.
This is the gate that Lao Huang walked through when he came to Emperor Wu City.
Zhou Ji walked beside him, hesitating to speak, wanting to tell him that Lao Huang's sword box seems to be not on the wall, but also thought of the four walls of a city, this side may not be hanging on other walls.
Xu Fengnian stopped and walked, as if he saw a familiar figure stopping from time to time in the busy market, looking back to lead the way.
Xu Fengnian raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, and smiled as he walked, tears blurred his eyes unconsciously.
Zhou Ji sighed softly, and Fan Xian's figure flashed in his mind. If he had been one step late back then, Teng Zijing not only lost his arm, but even lost his life, that person would definitely be equally sad.
The main reason why Zhou Ji became friends with Xu Fengnian is that he is very similar to Fan Xian.
Not only do they look alike, but also their sincere personality.
After walking for a while, there are six warriors sitting under the city wall, all of them are above the second rank. Seeing them, they seem to recognize Xu Fengnian's identity, and they stand up one after another, with fighting spirit rising.
Wei Shuyang introduced from the side: "There are twelve military slaves in Wudi City, all of whom were convinced after being defeated by Wang Xianzhi, and were willing to stay and guard the city for him."
"These are?" Zhou Ji asked suddenly.
"Yes." Wei Shuyang nodded, showing doubts, "It stands to reason that the twelve warrior slaves should guard the fifth floor separately, and they have to fight to the top of the building one by one to be eligible to challenge Wang Xianzhi. Why do they all squat under the city wall? Did you go? Changed the rules?"
Zhou Ji coughed lightly, and said with a strange expression: "Could it be that he was driven out and has no place to stay?"
(end of this chapter)