After leaving Qingdu and heading south, Yunzhou was quite safe and I encountered no trouble along the way.
However, Jiang Yan went back when he was approaching Nanping Town. Sure enough, as Wu Laoliu said, the entire Nanping Town had been deserted. Except for a bunch of abandoned houses, the streets and alleys were no longer there.
nobody.
When there was a drought in Yunzhou, he came here specially. Everyone in the town had already left since then. Jiang Yan thought he was going to escape the famine and would come back as soon as the famine was over, but it seemed that was not the case now.
The evil spirit in Pan Valley has also disappeared. Walking in this deserted village, Jiang Yan felt some mixed feelings in his heart.
Since he left, the old house in Paper Man Lane is covered with cobwebs and dust because no one has cleaned it. Only some paper men piled in the corner have not rotted away with the passage of time.
"Jiang Yan, is this your home?"
"kindness"
"Then you made all these paper figures?"
When Su Kou was in Mahuang Alley, he occasionally saw Jiang Qian making human-shaped objects out of some bamboo strips, but they were not made of colored paper.
"Well, our family used to make paper."
"You are not from Tianshe Mansion? Why are you a paper maker?" Su Kou was puzzled.
"I don't know either. My childhood memories are all in Paper Man Lane. My grandfather and I made a living by making paper."
This is what Jiang Yan doesn't understand. After confirmation by Wei Changli and many old scholars in Xihe, there is no doubt that he is a descendant of the Unforgivable Sins of Tianshe Mansion.
His grandfather and father had died long ago, so who was the person who raised him in Paper Man Lane?
The painter can be regarded as a very special kind of enlightenment. Is he really just an ordinary old man?
Wei Changli said that all the answers are hidden in Daxuan City and in the hands of the person sitting on the imperial throne.
After lingering for a short time, Jiang Yan didn't stay much. Before leaving, Jiang Yan hooked his fingers, and paper cranes and paper figures flew out of the house.
Su Kou has long been accustomed to such methods. He has long known that Jiang Chan has a special kind of enlightenment besides being a scribe. Jiang Chan didn't tell him what it was, and he didn't ask.
From the moment they met, they had their own secrets. Jiang Yan didn't ask about him, and he didn't ask about Jiang Yan. They maintained a tacit understanding with each other.
"Let's go"
Jiang Yan still has feelings for this place.
Just after he put up the lock and left Paper Man Alley, the paper figures piled in the corner of the courtyard wall suddenly moved...
Whether it was Chaimen's dull donkey or fat tiger, they were all very fast. After two days' journey, they had already reached the border of Yunzhou.
Most of the twenty-three cities in Yunzhou are gathered near the Qing capital, but there are no cities in the border area. This is also the place where the control of the Wen government is weakest.
In the dead of night, Jiang Yan and Su Kou were resting, and Yaya also fell into a deep sleep with Fat Hu's fat body as a pillow. The journey these past few days had made the little girl very tired.
Just when Jiang Gu was sleeping soundly, a paper crane flew out of the forest and landed on top of his head. Then several paper cranes crawled out of Jiang Gu's arms and slapped his face with their hands.
Pulled his hair sharply.
After Jiang Yan was disturbed and woke up, he connected with these paper figures and cranes through the secret method. He keenly sensed that some people were quietly approaching them in the night, and everyone was holding a sword.
"Su Kou, there is an enemy attack..."
Jiang Yan picked up the sleeping Yaya, woke up Su Kou, and then hid.
When some masked guests arrived, Jiang Yan and Su Kou had disappeared, and the leader was a little strange.
"Run away? Our whereabouts are secret and we shouldn't be discovered."
"Commander, there is a porcelain vase here."
Where the two of them were resting, an open porcelain vase was exuding a faint floral fragrance.
“What’s so strange about a porcelain vase?”
Although there was a strange fragrance, the leader didn't care. Jiang Yan was holding Yaya, and Su Kou had already walked out of the forest on a fat tiger.
"Come on, take them down," the leader shouted.
As soon as he finished speaking, these people heard a pop before they could take action. Some of the dozen people behind them began to fall down, and then one after another one after another fell down inexplicably.
The last of these people all have cultivation levels in the Soul-Living Realm, and the leader is at the pinnacle of the Mysterious Spirit Realm.
"What's going on?" The leader was a little panicked.
"Shh, keep your voice down." Jiang Yan pointed to Yaya in his arms, "She's sleeping."
"Of course he was poisoned, idiot"
"Are you preparing to surrender, or are you preparing to resist?" Jiang Yan asked in a low voice.
When the leader tried to resist, the spiritual power in his body seemed to be blocked and it was difficult to move. Although there were two or three strong men in the Xuanling Realm beside him, he knew that he was facing the younger generation of the number one person in the Eight Prefectures.
It's obviously very difficult for them to get out of their current situation.
The leader made a gesture, and the four people fled in different directions.
"It seems you have chosen the third path."
Seeing them escaping, Jiang Yan did not pursue them, but they themselves ran into trouble.
When the leader was about to leave, a ten-foot-long nine-tailed fox rolled him up with its giant tail. A strange spiritual power made him dizzy and fell into a sea of pink. This was the innate magical power of the spirit painted by Helingshu.
Charm.
As for the other three people, they were overtaken by a paper crane before they had gone too far.
These paper cranes landed on their shoulders, and then the Yin power carried by the paper cranes exploded, and all three of them fell into Jiang Gu's hands.
Since practicing the Kejiazi Divine Curse, Jiang Gu has made rapid progress in Yin power. The paper man and paper crane have gained substantial power with the Yin skills taught by Fang Xiangye Emperor.
If it were normal times, these paper cranes would have limited damage to the powerful in the Mysterious Spirit Realm, but at this moment, their spiritual power was blocked by Su Kou's poison, and they were just lambs to be slaughtered.
The nine-tailed fox brought the charming leader to Jiang Yan. After lifting the veil, the leader had a scar on his face.
What's even more disgusting is that after being charmed, the leader didn't know what kind of dream he fell into, and he didn't know what he saw. He had a lustful smile on his face, a silly laugh in his mouth, and there was still saliva at the corner of his mouth. This picture
His expression made Zuko couldn't help but kick him.
"Who are you?" Jiang Yan asked softly.
"I am...I am...Jiang Qing..."
"We have no grievances, why do you want to kill me?"
"The generals have orders to prevent you from entering the deserted city..." Jiang Qing replied unconsciously.
"Who is your chief commander?"
"The office in front of the palace is in charge of most of the affairs, and I have heard the truth."
Another office in front of the palace came out. Neither Jiang Yan nor Su Kou knew where it was.
"Is there anyone else besides you?"
"There are six teams in total, led by Huiyangjing..."
"Trouble has come to your door before anyone has arrived."
Jiang Yan had a headache. There were still four or five days to go from Daxuan City, but the road ahead didn't seem to be that easy.
"Do you want to kill him?" Su Kou asked.
"Forget it, it's just a few Xuanling realms that pose no threat to us."
"Then we can't give them any advantages. The medicine people who come to their doorsteps are useless if they don't use them."
Jiang Yan watched as Su Kou stuffed some untested medicine into the mouths of these people. Not long after he left, he heard bursts of painful wails.