Thousands of miles of clouds and dusk snow on thousands of mountains. To whom is the shadow going?
——Excerpt from "Moyu'er·Yanqiu Ci" by Yuan Haowen (Jin Dynasty)
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"Bang bang bang", Princess Qingluan slapped the door knocker of the Bashu guild hall. A waiter opened the door a crack and looked around.
Princess Qingluan showed her gold medal and said, "I want to see Young Master Bai Fu. Please inform me."
The waiter saluted and said, "Reporting to your lord, Mr. Bai has not been here these past two days."
Princess Qingluan panicked and said, "I am an old friend of Bai Fu. If you have something urgent, please come to him! Please be sure to help pass the message."
The waiter said, "Please, sir, please wait for a moment. I'll ask the shopkeeper to come out and see you." After that, he led Princess Qingluan into the tea room of the hotel.
After a while, Huang Zhen appeared and saluted: "I don't know what you want to see about Mr. Bai. I can pass it on for you."
Knowing Huang Zhen's identity, Qingluan opened his cloak, revealing his peerless beauty, and said, "Palace Master Huang, I am your Majesty's daughter. I had a relationship with Bai Shaoxia when I was young.
My master, Mrs. Gongsun, is now in jail and will be executed in a few days. I have no choice but to find this place, hoping that Bai Shaoxia will save her because of past friendship."
Huang Zhen had heard a little bit about Bai Fu's rescue of Princess Qingluan on New Year's Eve in his early years. Aunt Gongsun's assassination of His Majesty shocked the government and the public, so Huang Zhen certainly knew about it.
Huang Zhen nodded and said: "It turns out to be Her Royal Highness the Princess! Bai Shaoxia is arresting the fake Yan secret agent outside the city tonight. Princess, please leave your contact information. When Bai Shaoxia comes back, I will send someone to inform you immediately."
Princess Qingluan shook her head and said: "Palace Master Huang, to be honest with you, I can't wait. Please take me to see Bai Shaoxia immediately."
Huang Zhen pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, princess, please come with me."
Not long after, the clerk brought out some fast horses, and Huang Zhen led two Sichuan gangsters to accompany Princess Qingluan and rode out of the city.
When we arrived at the city gate, it was already closed.
Princess Qingluan was about to take out the gold medal and call for the city gate to be opened. Huang Zhen waved his hand to stop her and said with a smile: "In order to avoid disturbing the situation, please forgive me."
Huang Zhen and others followed the familiar route and walked to a hidden area in the corner of the wall. When the patrol soldiers on the city wall passed by, the Sichuan gang disciples took out the flying tiger claw and threw it towards the city tower.
After stabilizing the arrow stack, Huang Zhen grabbed the rope with both hands, like an ape, climbing alternately, and quickly climbed up the tower. Princess Qingluan touched the city bricks with her toes and flew up. When her strength was exhausted, she gently pulled the rope with her delicate hands.
Continue to use the force to fly up. After a few ups and downs, you are on the city in an instant.
Such light-weight skills immediately won the admiration of Sichuan disciples.
After going down to the city, disciples from the Sichuan Gang came to meet him outside the city. They took the horses and galloped away.
In less than a stick of incense, several people arrived at the edge of Qujiang River.
The weather is freezing and the Qujiang River has long frozen. The river is vast, snow is falling heavily, and there are no traces of birds or animals.
There was a firelight that appeared and disappeared in the darkness, like some kind of signal. The Sichuan disciples held out lanterns, which were on and off, three long and two short, in response to the other party's signal.
Soon, a night traveler came to Huang Zhen's side. It was Lu Tingzhou, the incense master of the Weishui Gang. He cupped his fists and saluted, and whispered a few words.
Huang Zhen turned around and said to Princess Qingluan: "The key criminal captured this time is cruel and cunning, has excellent water skills, and is good at assassinating people in rivers and ditches. People in the world call him the 'Water Demon'.
The 'Water Demon' has disappeared for many years, but for some reason he reappeared and became An Lushan's assassin lurking in Chang'an.
His mission this time is to use the Chang'an Waterway to assassinate Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi and other important court officials. If successful, he will also sneak into the Taiye Pond of the Daming Palace to assassinate His Majesty and the King of Chu.
After the Puppet Yan's underground intelligence network was uncovered this time, we found his home in Quchifang.
However, this man was very cunning. After being chased and intercepted by various heroes, he was still able to escape. He is currently hiding under the Qujiang River to recover from his injuries. This is his lair outside the city.
Now heroes from land and water have surrounded the Qujiang River for dozens of miles, but the river is open and we don’t know where it is hidden. In the middle of winter, the river is freezing cold, and even many heroes with good water skills do not dare to go into the water to search for it. "
Princess Qingluan wondered: "Is there still a nest under the water? Why is the 'Water Demon' not afraid of the cold?"
Huang Zhen said: "It is said that the 'Water Demon' is extremely talented. He was born with gills like a fish and can breathe underwater. His fingers and toes have webbed palms, and his swimming speed is comparable to that of sharks and dolphins. As long as it is a fish
Wherever he can survive, he can survive.
As soon as the "water monster" was born, he was regarded as a monster by his parents and abandoned in the river. Unexpectedly, not only did he not drown, but he was rescued by a strange man who was fishing, and it was said that he had shocking water skills.
However, because the 'Water Demon' was abandoned by his parents since he was a child, he has a vicious temperament that is different from ordinary people. After his master passed away, there was no one to control him.
The methods were bloody and cruel. Ten years ago, he was surrounded and suppressed by fellow martial artists. The water demon was seriously injured and escaped, and has disappeared since then.
It's just that the 'Water Demon' has always been independent and never cooperated with others. For some reason, he defected to the rebels and was willing to work for An Lushan and his son?"
Princess Qingluan said: "Then how can we arrest him?"
Huang Zhen smiled and said: "It depends on Bai Shaoxia's methods."
Following Lu Xiangzhu, Huang Zhen and others stepped onto the ice, walked for a stick of incense, and stopped. Looking at the center of the river, they saw a small boat in the middle of the river, solidified on the ice.
Suddenly, a firework exploded in the sky, as colorful as peonies in the night sky.
Master Lu Xiang said: "We're about to take action." After saying that, he handed the cotton brocade earplugs and fox fur earmuffs to Huang Zhen and others, and motioned for them to put them on.
Everyone had just finished dressing up when they heard the sound of pipa coming from all directions along the river bank. As soon as the strings were plucked, the clanging tune was slow or urgent, high or low. It seemed that every string was plucked to beat the heart. It was like being in the invisible sky.
In the deep mountains and forests of Japan, an unknown danger is approaching step by step.
Later, the tune becomes soothing, as if you are being chased by a wild beast. You can take a breath, but you dare not relax completely. The more silent it is, the more uneasy it is.
In an instant, the melody gradually became more urgent, and the pipa was fingered, cadenced, like a glaze cracking in a kiln, or a porcelain bottle breaking, and liquid gushing out. Every time the strings were plucked, the listener struggled incomparably, as if someone had blocked his throat and esophagus with his hands, making him unable to breathe.
Get angry.
Suddenly, the drums were playing loudly, the iron strings were clanking, and the sound of killing was loud, as if the cavalry was rushing in, and thousands of troops and horses were sweeping in. The iron hooves passed by, charging and crushing violently.
Ambush from all sides!
On the battlefield, arrows rained from the sky, spears were stabbed, axes were chopped with knives, desperate fights were fought, heads fell to the ground, corpses were strewn across the field, and blood flowed everywhere.
Suddenly I heard the four strings being plucked, and there was a sound of the silk cracking.
The sky and the earth are chilling, the wind is blowing the remaining snow, the center of the river is like a mirror, and the cold moon hangs high.
A person slowly walked out of the black awning of the boat. He was dressed in white and stood on the bow of the boat. His clothes were flowing and a jade flute was playing...
It is Bai Fu.
The sound of the flute was not very loud at first, like a thread, then gradually became louder, like silk and cotton, and suddenly it picked up a sharp point, like a fisherman throwing a rod into the sky.
Everyone secretly exclaimed. If he hadn't put on earplugs and earmuffs beforehand, this move would have been enough to draw blood from his heart.
Unexpectedly, the sound of the flute echoed in the sky, and it was not as wide as a foot, but it could turn and twist at an extremely high place. After a few tunes, it went up to a tall building, a skyscraper tower, with three or five layers stacked on top of each other, climbing higher and higher.
It's like climbing the long plank road in Huashan Mountain, holding on to the copper pillars and iron cables, and folding down to explore. Stepping on the cliff gap, the hanging ladder is flying, and the rope is descending step by step. Falling to the bottom of the well, then turning west, drilling stone holes, wedge stone piles, and facing the wall
Stay close to your belly, step on the wooden rafters, and move forward sideways. The sound of the flute turns upward, becoming more and more dangerous as it turns, and the more dangerous it becomes, the more strange it becomes.
The sound of the flute reaches the top of Mount Huashan, and you suddenly feel that the mountains are vast, the sky is so close, and you can pick the stars.
Everyone felt relaxed and happy, as if they were walking on floating clouds. The flute sound suddenly turned upside down, like a swimming dragon, circling and interweaving in the clouds and mist. It circled several times, faintly visible. After that, the flute sound became lower and lower, the lower and finer it became, and gradually became inaudible.
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Everyone knew that the critical moment was coming, so they held their breath and did not dare to move.
A mouthful of strong wine went into the throat, and the flute played without any warning, soaring upwards and breaking into the sky. The flute blast exploded the clouds, letting the red sun jump into the sky, the glow of the sky, and thousands of flying fireballs, crisscrossing the sky.
When I was dazzled, I suddenly heard a sudden sound, the flute strings stopped suddenly, and everything was silent.
"boom!"
The ice next to the boat exploded, revealing an ice hole the size of a millstone. A human figure swept out of the ice hole, like a flying fish leaping out of the water.
The 'Water Demon' had disheveled hair, a ferocious face, blood dripping from the corners of his mouth, and was tortured by the sound of the flute. He waved the three-pronged Sea King Halberd, roared, and rushed towards Bai Fu.
Bai Fu had been waiting for a long time. He held Xuantian's thick-backed sword in his hand, and with a flash of light, he chopped off the three-pronged Sea King Halberd and chopped off the 'Water Demon''s chest.
The 'Water Demon' screamed and fell into the water. From the hole in the ice, blood gurgled out.
There was a "click" and a hole opened in the ice.
The cracks spread rapidly from the ice hole, and instantly broke out of the encirclement. Before everyone could recover, the ice cracks suddenly opened at the feet of Princess Qingluan.
Before Princess Qingluan could retreat, a half-human, half-fish monster covered in blood jumped out of the crack in the ice, fluttering its claws and pounced on Princess Qingluan.
Princess Qingluan has been growing up in a deep palace since she was a child. She has never seen such monsters before. Princess Qingluan screamed, her legs and feet went limp, unable to escape.
With his life hanging by a thread, Ye Bianzhou whimpered and curled up, and another flute sound came out. The flute sound was plaintive, more sad and lingering than before.
"Thousands of miles of clouds, thousands of mountains covered with dusk snow, who are the shadows going to?" I read a line in a faint voice.
The ‘Water Demon’ body froze for a moment, frozen in place, like a weathered stone sculpture.
At this time, the night is quiet, the moon is full, and the wind blows into the pine forest, making people's restlessness disappear and all worries disappear.
The sound of the flute comes through the forest and the water, destroying the hardness and turning it into softness. It is sad and poignant. It penetrates into the soul and makes every young man feel sad.
A good sentence, "Thousands of mountains are covered with snow at dusk, to whom is the shadow going?"
Although Princess Qingluan didn't know what it was, she felt that the world was just as beautiful and poignant as it was. It was like a heart that was broken into pieces, thrown into the wind, and passed away with the wind.
The long-laid past was awakened by the sound of the flute, and the water demon sat silently. It touched my heart and made me shed tears.
The white waves fluttered like snow in the wind, slowly appearing in the eyes of everyone.
The 'Water Demon' knelt down on his knees, burst into tears, and swore a blood oath: "By the gods of the rivers and rivers, from today onwards, Jiang Shark is willing to be driven by the Lord, and is willing to lead the horse and kick the pedal for the general."