The Changle Inn opened on the side of the street was originally used to greet people and send them off. There were few small things in the city, and there were neither thieves nor soldiers. Whether it is the shopkeeper or the waiter, they are all local people. The farthest place I have been to is Zhili, and the most powerful person I have ever seen is the county magistrate. Where have I seen any real big scenes? At this moment, everyone stood tremblingly in the corner of the lobby with their heads bowed, not daring to take a breath for fear of offending the group of people in front of them.
It's just that the man standing quietly in the hall is really a fairy.
Dressed in a snow-white Taoist gown, he has a high posture, Yuan Ting and Yue Zhi. His long cheeks are as distant and clean as ink drawn on distant mountains, and the corners of his eyes and brows seem to be still covered with the damp and cold dew that has come all the way. Just looking at people in a normal way makes people feel that they have been seen through by this glance, and they have nowhere to hide.
Most of the dark crowd who came with him didn't enter the door, they only surrounded the inn so that no one else could enter. Fortunately, when the New Year's Eve was approaching, there were not many people coming and going to the inn, so it didn't cause too much panic.
Jianshu and his men quickly searched the entire inn.
When I came down from the stairs, it was empty-handed.
There was no one they were looking for here.
Jianshu glanced at Xiaobao with a slightly pale face, his heart was beating a little, he walked up to Xie Wei, and said, "Sir, there is no one."
Xie Wei was silent and speechless.
Little Treasure knew something had changed when he heard from the shopkeeper that there were no girls staying at the inn at dawn. Now, when he heard Jianshu's words, he buried his head and knelt down, pleading guilty: "It was because of my negligence and lack of consideration that I lost the second girl." whereabouts."
Xiaobao is in the Heavenly Sect, so he is Xie Weiyang's hidden stake.
Although he is young, he is very clever in doing things.
But after all, he was in Tongzhou and Xie Wei was in the capital, even if he secretly sent a message asking him to rescue Jiang Xuening first, he couldn't explain the matter in detail. So Xiaobao deduces according to common sense, since Jiang Xuening has been rescued, in front of the inn, this girl is powerless and doesn't look like she has any big skills, so she will naturally go into the inn obediently .
How could anyone have thought that a living person could disappear for nothing?
I have never been in this inn from the beginning to the end!
The lobby was deserted.
No human voice.
Xie Wei didn't ask Xiaobao to get up, but he didn't say anything to reproach him either, he just raised his hand to gently support the corner of the table, and sat on a chair that had been carefully wiped by Jianshu.
After a while, Daoqin came in with someone, bowed and said: "Sir, the people from the government office."
This man was wearing a navy blue silk robe, and he was the master of the government office.
When Daoqin carried him into the door, he staggered, almost **** off, fell in front of Xie Wei in embarrassment, knocked his head to the ground, tremblingly: "The villain pays homage to the young master, indeed, indeed, there is A girl came to the government office half an hour ago, and asked to see our magistrate by name."
Xie Wei rolled his eyes: "How to say?"
The master's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he recalled: "It is said that the Tianjiao congregation gathered in Tongzhou to be suspected of treason, and the court officials who came to investigate from the Ministry of Punishment were caught in it and urgently needed help. The magistrate didn't believe it at first, but he heard it soon. The city gate guards said that Duke Ding led his troops into the city and went straight to Shangqingguan, so he didn't sit still and quickly ordered some servants from the government office to take a shortcut to help."
Xie Wei asked, "Where is she?"
When the master first heard the word "she", he subconsciously wanted to say that the magistrate had gone to Shangqing Temple, but after thinking about it, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly swallowed the words that came to his lips, and changed his answer: "That girl must follow The magistrate is going, but he can't be stopped, counting the distance, I'm afraid he has already arrived at Shangqingguan."
Jianshu, who was standing beside him, gasped almost immediately.
The second girl Jiang has no power to restrain her daughter's house in the boudoir, how dare she take risks like this!
Xiao Bao also stared round his eyes.
Only Xie Wei, as if he had anticipated this a little bit, suddenly laughed. It was a really indescribable laugh, as if something was choking in the throat, and it was vague and pungent, and finally turned into two heavy words: "Okay, okay."
She underestimated her courage!
When I was a student in the palace, I was obedient and obedient, but when I was outside, I was rebellious!
For a Zhang Zhe dare to oppose him!
Xie Wei's fingers resting on the edge of the table pressed a piece of ice, and the lingering hostility spread out from the depths of his eyes again, he got up, flicked his sleeves and walked outside the inn, only coldly said: "Go to Shangqing View."
In the afternoon at the river beach in the village, Jiang Xuening once confided in Zhang Zhe that she didn't want to stay in the capital or the palace, and wanted to take this opportunity to escape far away.
He thought that he had gone through the glitz and found his true heart.
Even if we can't see each other often in the future, I still hope that her wish will come true, go far away, and never come back.
But she just came back.
Still in such a dangerous situation.
Zhang Zhe was first annoyed at her ignorance, and secondly hated her recklessness, when his voice came out, the sharpness of his words surprised even himself.
Meng Yang beside him couldn't help but glance at him.
Seeing him, Jiang Xuening felt a big stone in her heart fall to the ground, she never thought that Zhang Zhe would yell at herself like this, she was startled for a moment: "I..."
For you.
Since there is no such thing as the court's response to Yongding Pharmacy, Zhang Zhe must have been kept in the dark; Xiaobao took a lot of trouble to bring her out, so we know that at least the planner behind Xiaobao wants to save himself Xiaobao tricked her into calming her down by telling her about the Yongding pharmacy, but he had never been to the pharmacy, so he knew they didn't care about Zhang Zhe's life or death.
If the imperial court does not rush to help, Zhang Zhe will be in danger!
After she went to the government office, she heard that it was Xiao and his son who led people to encircle and suppress the Tianjiao, and she felt even more frightened, so she decided to come with the government's reinforcements, desperate—
The bet is that the people behind the plot don't want her to die!
If she came, by Zhang Zhe's side, if this group of people wanted to stand by and entrap Zhang Zhe, they would have to think about it, and even be forced to come to rescue her!
If she wins the bet, she can save Zhang Zhe's life;
If she loses the bet, it is only her life to pay Zhang Zhe.
So when Zhang Zhe's anger hit her face, she felt bitter and wronged for a moment, but in a moment she knew that Zhang Zhe's anger was more due to worry and anger, so she became warm again.
Jiang Xuening's eyes were red.
In her previous life, she owed Zhang Zhe, bullied him, targeted him, lost her temper at him, and in this life she will pay him back.
After all, she was happy with it.
She didn't want to hide her feelings, she still looked at him steadfastly, with tears still streaming down her face, she said with a bit of sobs: "I'm worried about you."
The few red marks drawn on the delicate face are particularly eye-catching.
She extinguished all Zhang Zhe's fires, and his heart felt as if he was being whipped: He could have left but came back, what else could it be for?
He knew it clearly, but he couldn't control the anger that went beyond reason at that moment.
However, this is not the time to talk too much.
Seeing the congregants who had been temporarily repelled from the Tianjiao side came back to this side again, he didn't care what to say, his face turned cold, and he directly raised his hand and pulled Jiang Xuening to his side, it was safer to go horizontally avoid everywhere.
Jiang Xuening's hand was clenched by his, and what he felt was sticky.
Looking down, he saw blood on his hands.
The palm of his hand holding her was stained red by the blood flowing from the wound on his left shoulder, which was extremely glaring.
She suddenly hated her own weakness and incompetence, and she couldn't help him more at this time, so she could only follow him step by step, trying not to hold back.
It was originally an indistinguishable melee between the Heavenly Church, the prisoners, and the people from Xiao's side. After adding the emergency servants from the government office, it suddenly became more organized, at least the pressure from Zhang Zhe and Meng Yang. Suddenly light.
On the contrary, Tianjiao was caught off guard.
The group who came to kill Zhang Zhe earlier were stopped by swords, and it was obvious that they couldn't do it. Feng Mingyu didn't expect any side effects, and was so angry that he cursed.
Wu Feng persuaded: "I can't bear to mess up big plans, so don't just worry about Zhang Zhe."
Only then did Feng Mingyu swallow his breath, and said, "How far is it?"
Wu Feng raised his eyes and looked around: the people on the Tianjiao side have completely withdrawn from the Shangqing Temple at the moment, and walked around to a mountain road halfway up the mountain leading to the back mountain, and behind it was a valley overgrown with wild grass.
There was a flash of light in his eyes, and he said: "Fifteen or sixty feet, retreat!"
In the midst of the melee, a whistle was faintly heard from the Tianjiao.
The battle line is stretched, and not many people hear it.
Xiao's father and son, who followed far behind, didn't even hear it. When they saw a commotion in front of them, and when they killed people who came out of the Tongzhou government office halfway, the expressions of the father and son became a bit ugly.
Xiao Yuan's goal this time was to win the first prize alone, for which reason even Xie Wei deliberately left it behind.
Who would have expected that there would be a life-or-death prefect here who dared to share a piece of the pie?
The more this is the case, the less you can let the other party take the lead!
He frowned, his temples were already a little gray, but it didn't hinder him in the slightest from his awe-inspiring aura when he gave orders, and he shouted loudly: "No retreat! Hit it hard! Whoever takes a step back, Go back to the military law to serve!"
These soldiers were all brought out from the Forbidden Army, and they always listened to Xiao Yuan's words.
Besides, it was just a small Tianjiao fight, it was a trivial matter compared to fighting on the real border, they didn't pay much attention to this matter at first, when Xiao Yuan said to charge forward, there was no one to be afraid, quite Raise the sword and press forward!
Although Zhang Zhe was far away, both sides heard the general idea, and easily noticed that Xiao Yuan's side was greedy for meritorious deeds, and thinking about the weirdness of Tianjiao's actions before and after, he felt uneasy all the time.
Seeing that Xiao's people were getting closer and closer, and even they were going to be carried to the back mountain, his brows frowned.
Can't go any further.
Zhang Zhe said decisively: "The opponent is luring the enemy to go deep, be careful in ambush!"
The prefect of Tongzhou was dumbfounded.
Xiao's father and son dismissed it.
However, before they could express their doubts or ridicule, the moment Zhang Zhe finished speaking, there was a terrifying "bang" on the mountainside, and everyone's feet shook, and it was too late hide!
The hard rock flew up and fell towards the crowd.
Dirt splattered.
Occasionally, a small stone would hit a person's head with lasing, piercing through the human skull and wedged in!
Even Meng Yang and other Lianjiazi couldn't stand still, and said in shock: "Gunpowder!"
This thing was unintentionally refined by Taoist priests while refining alchemy, and it was used on the battlefield after decades. It was made into a cannon, which often has the miraculous effect of killing hundreds of people with one shot. brilliant.
It's just that it is not easy to develop this thing, and it is of great importance. It has always been used only by the imperial army.
How could there be a heavenly religion? !
Not to mention Meng Yang, but anyone with a little knowledge already sensed that a catastrophe was imminent.
A bang was just the beginning.
Just a moment later, it was as if a terrifying floodgate had been opened, the sound of "rumbling" explosions could be heard endlessly, and all kinds of screams were heard one after another.
According to Shangqingguan, this mountain is not high, and the soil layer and rocks are not strong enough.
When several buried gunpowder exploded, the rocks shook violently and collapsed from bottom to top, dragging half of the people into the soil and the other half into the rocks.
Blood and flesh flew all over the place, and corpses were blown up all over the field!
Even though Zhang Zhe expected an ambush, he never expected that the Tianjiao could produce gunpowder. The moment the mountainside collapsed, he only had time to pull Jiang Xuening to avoid the direction where the Tianjiao people were in front!
The few yamen guards behind him disappeared almost immediately.
Xiao's father and son never expected such an accident to happen. They had already rushed forward too hard to retreat, and the two of them happened to be within the ambushing range of the explosives, and they were blown up immediately. The mountain dragged down.
Xiao Ye screamed in horror!
It was a rock rolled from above that hit his leg.
Xiao Yuan was lucky and only scratched the skin a little bit, but he was still in shock. Seeing his precious son's leg being smashed, he yelled "Ye'er" and rushed over to save him, but he was alone. Where can the limit be pushed away from that boulder?
You want to call everyone to help, but others are too busy to take care of themselves.
"Hahahaha Mr.'s move is called 'Please enter the urn', also known as 'Close the door and beat the dog'!"
"Waiting for you to come and die!"
The Tianjiao side actually knew that the imperial court would send troops to encircle and suppress them, so they made preparations and arrangements in advance, and wanted to teach them a harsh lesson! Even though some congregants died by mistake, compared to the almost complete annihilation of the replaced imperial court, it's really worth it!
The imperial court rushed to help the soldiers, but the survivors were only stragglers.
The Tianjiao side pressed it up and killed it. The scene was tragic for a while, and the situation suddenly reversed!
Zhang Zhe pulled Jiang Xuening to escape to the safe place of Tianjiao. Although he avoided the power of gunpowder blasting the mountain in time, it also sent himself into another dangerous situation.
Tianjiao is worried that he will not be able to kill him.
As soon as Huang Qian saw that Zhang Zhe had entered the tiger's mouth, he took the initiative to approach them. How could he not seize this opportunity and attack him fiercely?
Zhang Zhe wanted to protect Jiang Xuening, he had been seriously injured long ago, and he was not a person with high martial arts skills, so he was at a loss almost immediately.
The other party also saw that he cared about Jiang Xuening, so he simply tried to force Jiang Xuening with swords and swords.
Zhang's heart to protect her was more serious than his heart to protect himself. He would inevitably fall into the opponent's tricks, and was stabbed in the ribs with a sword. He staggered and almost fell down.
Jiang Xuening yelled: "Zhang Zhe!"
Huang Qian, however, laughed out loud, and took this opportunity to pull Jiang Xuening over, put a knife across her neck, and said to Zhang Zhe, "Put down the knife, and ask your people to put down the knife too."
Zhang Zhe held the blood-stained knife, and he was also covered in blood.
He looked at Jiang Xuening silently, without speaking.
She panicked for just a moment.
Immediately afterwards, a strange calmness emerged.
Even though her life was hanging on Huang Qian's blade that could cut off her head at any moment, she felt that there was no better situation than being held hostage at this moment.
Jiang Xuening was calm and composed: 'Master Huang Xiang, now you still have a chance. "
Huang Qian was surprised: "What?"
Jiang Xuening didn't even shake her voice, and said, "There may be a glimmer of life if we abandon the dark and turn to the bright."
Huang Qian felt like he had just heard a big joke.
Is this woman crazy?
However, things in this world are so weird, or maybe this woman does have her own support. Just as he was about to sneer, swift black shadows appeared on the back wall and buildings of the Taoist temple in front!
Those are countless archers hiding in the dark!
Wu Feng, head of the Tongzhou sub-rudder, knew almost immediately that the general situation was not good, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Back off, back off!!"
But the group of Tianjiao finally reversed the defeat, and they were about to take advantage of the victory to beat the dog in the water. The remnant soldiers who chased Xiao Shi had already chased too deeply, and almost all chased back to the back wall of Shangqingguan in front.
Completely delivered to your door!
How can I get back?
"Swish, swish", the arrows pierced through the air and made a sharp sound. Because of the huge number, they almost screamed into one piece, densely packed, and shot from the sky!
Many people had no time to react, and they were already turned into hedgehogs by the arrows that entered their bodies.
Brush Lala...
A wave of arrow rain fell, and one piece fell down; another wave of arrow rain fell, and another piece fell; when the third wave of arrow rain fell, except for the wailing and screaming of the wounded who were still breathing on the mountain behind, watching from afar Everyone who was not affected was silent.
Because this rain of arrows covered more than just the Heavenly Sect!
Even those defeated remnants led by Xiao Shi were no different, they all died!
The blood pooled into a pool of water, and rushed from the back wall of the Shangqing Temple to the nearby mountain road.
Xiao Yuan still hugged the fainted Xiao Ye and wept bitterly.
But everywhere else was dead silence.
The louder the wailing and screaming, the more it contrasted the paleness and horror of this dead silence.
In the valley overgrown with wild grass, Feng Mingyu was still there, Wu Feng was still there, and some of the lucky ones talking about the Heavenly Sect were still there.
Huang Qian is also there.
However, at this moment, he had already forgotten what he wanted to say first. The knife rested on Jiang Xuening's neck, but his hands shook uncontrollably. His eyes were unconsciously full of fear, and he looked at the backyard of Shangqingguan who didn't know what to say. When was the door closed.
The cold wind blows the grass.
The dark sky was overcast with clouds.
It was clear that nothing could be heard except the sound of the wind, but when everyone focused on the closed door, they seemed to be able to hear the sound of footsteps gradually approaching behind the door.
Finally, the door opened.
It was too far away, and all I could see was a white shadow.
Then walk towards them.
Some solid rocks still stood up abruptly on the blasted mountain road, and this man stood on the most dangerous one, the new wind washed his robes, but he calmly and indifferently looked down at the few remnants of the Heavenly Sect in the valley .
Jiang Xuening saw this man's face clearly.
The knife that Huang Qian pressed on her neck felt piercingly cold.
She also saw the man's eyes clearly.
It is generally the same as the Xie Wei who rebelled against him in the previous life—
Shed off the skin of the saint and opened the heart of the devil.
On the Tianjiao side, no one seemed to know his identity.
Xiao Dingfei, who originally wanted to escape by mistake but did not escape, his brocade clothes were already dirty, now seeing Xie Wei, he just backed away quietly, hid behind the crowd, buried his head low, as if he was afraid of being seen by anyone.
Feng Mingyu and Wu Feng couldn't believe it.
They are praying mantises catching cicadas, but they don't want to have orioles behind them!
There were only a hundred or so people left in the group, and they seemed powerless to resist compared to the mass of people on the rock overlooking them, not to mention that there were more archers on the other side.
But fortunately, they have a hostage in their hands.
Huang Qian tried to calm down, and said: "I didn't expect that the imperial court would send two groups of people here, but I miscalculated. But your imperial court officials and this woman are in our hands! If you wait any further, I will kill her immediately !"
Xie Wei's Taoist robe fluttered against the wind, glanced at Huang Qian, and asked plainly, "Who is she?"
Huang Qian was stunned.
However, at the next moment, a chill rose from his heart: Yes, who is she? They didn't know the identity of this woman all the way, they only knew that Zhang Zhe cared. But Zhang Zhe cared, but it didn't mean that the person who controlled their life and death also cared!
It is simply impossible to threaten Jiang Xuening!
With this thought, Huang Qian's forehead broke out in cold sweat, and he couldn't help being distracted when he was flustered.
But Wu Feng yelled: "Be careful!"
A cold light flashed in the oblique stab, and a sharp dagger attacked Huang Qian from the wild grass behind him. It cut off the back of Huang Qian's neck like lightning, and almost cut off half of Huang Qian's neck with such force!
The blood was immediately scattered like mist!
At the same time, a hand reached out in time to grab the knife in Huang Qian's hand, preventing it from cutting Jiang Xuening's throat due to its unsteady fall!
Until this moment, no one could see this ghostly figure clearly.
She is not tall, even a head shorter than Jiang Xuening.
The red rope is still tied with a soaring braid, but the joy that everyone is familiar with is completely gone on his face, only the chill and maturity that does not match his age!
"Little Treasure!"
Feng Mingyu never expected, let alone saw when Xiaobao returned to the crowd again.
He was originally a member of the Tianjiao, even when he came back, he didn't pay attention.
It was also because of this that no one else noticed him, so he was given such a chance to pay off his merits!
It was too late for Tianjiao to react.
Jiang Xuening was out of danger.
Huang Qian fell to the ground and stared round his eyes, but lost his breath.
Xiaobao threw his long way on the ground, turned to face the Tianjiao people, and clasped the dagger in his hand, as if whoever wanted to do something to Jiang Xuening, he would do his best!
So far, the Tianjiao side is gone.
Feng Mingyu laughed miserably: "I didn't expect that after all my planning, I would end up in the hands of others, and Mr. Du Jun's planning was actually one move away! The situation is stronger than others, and we are not the kind of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death. It's just that I teach Brother is also a benevolent person, and he has no intention of turning back. You respect the gods and figures, and it is not a pity to kill us, but you still hope to let the ordinary followers go, and don't implicate innocent people!"
As soon as these words came out, the Remnant Heaven Sect members were all moved.
Even the archers above were a little bit in admiration.
However, Xie Wei remained motionless, didn't even reply him a word, just looked down, gently stretched out his hand to his side, and spread his palm.
On that side stands the Daoqin.
He glanced at Xie Wei, wordlessly untied the longbow on his back and handed it to his palm, took another feathered arrow and handed it to him.
Those hands are the hands that usually play the piano, the long fingers are carved like jade, and they are as slender as green bamboo. At this moment, they are clasping the bowstring and bending the bow to lead the arrow. The bow is almost stretched into a full moon, but the body is like a strong ancient pine nailed to the ground. Yes, never shaken.
The six arts of a gentleman have archery, and if he does it, the movements are really smooth and smooth.
However, the overly calm face, the deep silence and emotionless eyes, made people see a kind of cold indifference and stagnant murderous intent in this pleasing movement!
Seeing this, everyone in the Tianjiao below changed their expressions!
However, the next moment I found out——
What Xie Wei pointed at with his arrow was not any one of them, but the court official Zhang Zhe whose blood soaked his robe on the other side!
Look at the remnant mountain coldly, the saint bends his bow!
Zhang Zhe pressed the wound under his ribs with one hand, blood was still oozing from the crevices of his fingers, he looked up, his eyes collided with Xie Wei's unmoving eyes across the cold and vague void.
The opponent's hand didn't tremble a bit.
Looking at the back mountain in Shangqing, although people are crowded, there is no sound.
Xie Wei could see that the tip of his arrow was overlapped with Zhang Zhe's head through the void, if he let go of it lightly, it would be a perfect shot.
But in this silence, another figure stood in front of Zhang Zhe.
Thin, skinny.
There was a pale face in the wild grass, with a bit of panic, but he stubbornly opened his slender arms, standing firmly in front of his arrow like a rock!
Jiang, Xue, Ning!
Biting the name carefully, if the hostility in the inn is only one point, it will rise ten times and a hundred times at this moment, making him unable to suppress it, and he doesn't want to suppress it anymore.
His face was frozen, without any temperature.
For a moment, Xie Wei really wanted to tear her apart with one arrow, pretending that he had never taught this student!
"Buzz!"
There was a resounding sound from the bowstring, and the arrow flew away like lightning!