Chapter 344: Simon the Jackal
A carriage was walking on the mountain path, and four sword-holding warriors were riding horses to guard. Seeing their temples bulging, they had a kind of mighty aura in their every move, and they were obviously masters with superb internal skills.
In the carriage, a stunning woman was sitting gently, wearing a water-colored gauze dress, elegant and dignified, as long as a black waterfall, and was covered with a tray next to her. A pretty maid next to her was helping her to plate up the long plate bit by bit.
The stunning woman held a pipa in her arms, plucked with bare hands, and the sound of string music was heard, making people feel like bathing in the clouds and mists. Even the originally chirping birds in the forest suddenly stopped, as if listening to this unheard immortal song on earth.
After the song was finished, the mountains and forests were still peaceful and quiet. Only after the carriage was far away, there were some birds and insects ringing again in the forests.
In this world, there is no other woman who can use the pipa to play such a sound in the world.
"Sister, Shilan feels that your music has improved again." Gu Qingcheng's maid Shilan plated the last strand of silk and fixed it with a goose yellow comb, and finally finished the makeup.
Gu Qingcheng didn't care, and she sighed softly: "The war in the north is not good now, and many people are displaced and unable to eat. Even if my music has reached the realm of heaven and man, I still can't do anything. What's the use?"
The sound of horse hooves came from outside, from far to near.
Gu Qingcheng opened the curtain first, looked at the young master who was riding a horse, and smiled politely: "Young Master Ximen, where are we now?"
The young master surnamed Ximen rushed to walk in parallel with the carriage. Looking at the beautiful face behind the curtains, his heart trembled involuntarily: "It's time to go to Qianjiazhuang ahead. Qianjiazhuang is one of the most important households nearby. With my Ximen family and Gu, everyone came forward together, and they would be willing to contribute some money and food."
The Ximen family, there is only one who can claim to be like this in the world!
The "Ximen Juezhang" among the four major families in the east, west, south, north and north!
The Central Plains is vast, and the four major families each occupy one side! The Eastern Tianjian, the Beiming Badao, the Nangong Lie Gun, and the Ximen Jue Palm! Each is a giant pedestal. Each family has existed for thousands of years. After countless dynasties, it still stands proudly on the Central Plains!
The Dongfang family started with sea transportation and dominated the Southeast.
The Beiming family started out with military industry and built military and iron armor, which was well-known throughout the country.
The Nangong family started with loyalty and righteous aspirations, persisted for hundreds of years, and used their strength to resist the southern invasion of Yunzhou, which was admired by the world!
The Ximen family also started out with business, but occupied the southwest direction and controlled countless large and small canal transportation businesses within. Even the emperors of the Great Wei Dynasty and the previous dynasties had to look at their eyes in this regard.
The four major families showed their own abilities and were originally at peace. However, as the family business expanded, the sphere of influence had extended inward, so it was naturally easy to get in conflict with the Ximen family.
Originally, both families tried their best to restrain themselves in the conflict, because it was not good for both parties to really tear apart, but Dongfang's head of the Dongfang family was born and was ranked among the top ten masters in the world in his 40s. He is one of the four swords in the world. It can be said that he completely changed the pattern of the four major families with his own strength.
The Ximen family was the one who suffered the most impact here. In recent years, the Ximen family has been constantly shrinking its sphere of influence to avoid conflicts. However, in the eyes of the world, it has become a sign that the family gradually becomes weak. It has led to some people in the southwest direction of the Central Plains controlled by the Ximen family. The Ximen family had to strengthen control methods and let Ximen Yuan, the young master of the Ximen family, wander around in various places and appease all the forces under the family.
By chance, Ximen Yuan met Gu Qingcheng who was traveling southwest and was immediately shocked! He could not pull out his heart with his heart!
At this time, the war in the north began. Gu Qingcheng hoped to do his best to the war in the north, so he used his reputation among the people to lobby all parties, hoping to awaken the patriotism of knowledgeable people and donate money and food to aid the north.
Ximen Yuan took this opportunity to walk into Gu Qingcheng. He was with Gu Qingcheng in the name of escort, and at the same time used the influence of the Ximen family to make local forces donate money and food. With the Ximen family taking the lead, Gu Qingcheng's results have been significantly improved, so even if Gu Qingcheng saw that Ximen's prime moves were impure, he pretended not to know.
Gu Qingcheng looked at Ximenyuan riding on a horse through a corner of the car window. Although in terms of appearance alone, Ximenyuan is indeed outstanding, with sharp eyes emerging from his own power, especially his hands, like jade and snow, he doesn't look like a martial arts practitioner at all, and he is even more beautiful than a woman's hands.
"After this time, Qingcheng wants to go back to Jingyang to cultivate for a while. I believe that the money and food that all parties promised before should also be delivered to Jingyang. If so, it would be great." Gu Qingcheng's eyebrows were as beautiful as a distant mountain, and Gu Pan was even more moving, which made Ximen Yuan slightly stunned.
"Since that's the case, then Ayuan will send Qingcheng to attack Jingyang. If Qingcheng is asked to go back by himself, Ayuan will be unable to feel at ease."
Gu Qingcheng frowned slightly, but the curtains were covered by Ximenyuan.
Qingcheng, I don’t remember when I promised you to call me Qingcheng!
But Gu Qingcheng did not say anything because of this, but put down the curtains to isolate Ximen Yuan outside the car. Gu Qingcheng, who was sitting in the car, held the pipa, tugging it intentionally or unintentionally, his thoughts were already flying wherever he arranged it.
Qingcheng, where is the person who once called someone else Qingcheng?
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Humph, sooner or later, you will be my woman!
After Gu Qingcheng put down the curtains, the smile on Ximen Yuan's face suddenly left. His hands, which were a little smoother than ordinary beauty, tightly tugging on the reins, his eyes gradually became colder.
If it were an ordinary man, they might not dare to give him the opportunity to get close to Gu Qingcheng, because Gu Qingcheng is so beautiful and famous that he even has registered between the palace and the princes. He has even become a meat dish in the eyes of some powerful people, and he can only taste the tender and delicious food after the time is ripe. Therefore, as long as a man dares to show his intention to get close to Gu Qingcheng, he will probably disappear inexplicably in the world in the future!
But Ximen Yuan is different. He is Ximen Zheng's only son, and the Ximen family is rich enough to rival a country. It is not something that a powerful person in the Great Wei Dynasty can move. If we really say that Ximen Yuan's status is even enough to be comparable to several princes, how can he be afraid of the powerful person's means?
So he could boldly get close to Gu Qingcheng, but what disappointed her was that Gu Qingcheng actually ignored him!
Although she was resentful, Ximen Yuan politely retreated, distanced himself from the carriage and horse carried by Gu Qingcheng, and entered the Ximen family's queue behind her.
Originally, according to Ximen Yuan's idea, he directly used powerful means to capture Gu Qingcheng and then do good things. However, he was stopped by the people around him. Gu Qingcheng's reputation was so high that he imagined that Ximen Yuan imagined. Although Gu Qingcheng was just a woman, he had already achieved success in music and could even use it to heal others. He had saved many people in the martial arts world at the beginning. Since then, some people in the martial arts world have been guarding Gu Qingcheng for gratitude.
And the four people guarding here are the best!
Ximen Yuan looked at the four guards ahead, and a narrow and dangerous arc was pulled out of the corner of his eyes. A sinister smile flashed in his eyes, instantly tearing his humble and gentleman's appearance to pieces!
He didn't take the other three seriously at all, but an old man made him feel dangerous. The old man had a snow-white beard that reached his waist, and a three-edged steel whip behind him. His qi and blood were as strong as that of a twenty-year-old boy. Just now, the old man just casually glanced, and Ximen Yuan felt that he was seen through. He had no choice but to give up the idea of continuing to talk with Gu Qingcheng and retreated to the Ximen family's team.
But so what! As long as Ximen Yuan nodded and transferred the masters from the Ximen family, even if Gu Qingcheng had these four master guards, he would be able to capture them!
"Young Master, don't be impatient, just take it slowly."
Seeing Ximen Yuan's changes, an old slave quietly stepped forward and rode a horse to follow Ximen Yuan about half a seat, which was obviously different from the master and servant.
"Uncle Chen, I naturally know that such a beautiful woman is the only one I have seen in my life, so it is naturally the most delicious to cook slowly!"
Ximen Yuan looked at the carriage in front of him as if he could see through everything. Uncle Chen behind him also reminded him a little and stopped talking. In his opinion, it was just a stunning woman, and the young master was just on a whim and would abandon his shoes after playing.
Chapter completed!