The bright moon is so bright that it shines all over Shendu Garden. The bare hands are so slender that they can only hold the breeze.
Under the flickering moonlight, the wind coming from the pool, with a little warmth, rushed towards the grass and trees on the shore. It also brought the breath of late spring to the people and foxes lurking.
Liu Xiaomu suppressed a ray of heartbeat and smiled like a flower: "These men in black robes are also looking for things, why should we put ourselves at risk? When they come ashore, catch them and interrogate them, we will know what they want. If they are also looking for
'Rushui Sword', doesn't it just give you a lot of helpers?"
"If you have other intentions, just tie him up and throw them to the guards in the garden. Haha!" Yang Zhaoxi followed Liu Xiaomu's thoughts and continued.
"That's how it should be! Why do you need to do it yourself when you can pretend to be someone else's?" Liu Xiaomu smiled brightly.
The warm breath in her mouth, along with the soft voice, brushed against his cheek, stirring up a bit of throbbing and heat in his heart. This feeling was a bit familiar, like that day in Cui Mansion.
Guest room, the feeling when seeing Cui Wan's exquisite body.
"Although Aunt Xiaomu is a demon clan, she is open and honest with me. How can I have such frivolous and absurd feelings towards her? It is really blasphemous to fellow Taoist..." Yang Zhaoxi hurriedly collected his mind and circulated his breath. He walked around the circle several times.
After a few days, the throbbing and hot feeling gradually subsided.
The two figures were silent for a long time, and looked towards the surface of the pool at the same time: from time to time, three heads could be seen emerging from the water, and after taking a breath, they plunged down again.
The three of them moved cautiously, and the sound of the water was very small, mixed with the rustle of the wind blowing through the branches and leaves, and was almost inaudible.
After waiting for a long time, I saw three men in black robes holding the rope and slowly swimming to the shore. Their vigilance did not relax at all. After carefully looking around, they slowly climbed onto the shore.
When the three of them wrapped the ropes in their hands and prepared to withdraw the flying claws with shaking hands, Yang Zhaoxi and Liu Xiaomu, who had been lying in the bushes for a long time, suddenly took action!
Yang Chaoxi hit a black-robed man in the neck with a palm strike. The black-robed man only had time to raise his hands to block, then his eyes flashed and he fainted.
Liu Xiaomu flew up, first kicking a man in black robe who was closer and knocked him unconscious. With his free hands, he slapped the wrist bone of another man in black robe with one palm, and removed his jaw with the other palm to prevent him from biting.
He committed suicide by opening the poison sac.
Ruthless! Accurate! Steady! One person and one fox arrived suddenly, and subdued three men in black robes in the blink of an eye. The whole process took less than a breath.
Yang Zhaoxi cut the rope in the hands of one man in black robes, cut it into several sections, and quickly folded the hands of the three men in black robes behind their backs and tied them up.
Liu Xiaomu was on the side and removed the lower jaws of the other two men in black robes. Then he pinched open the mouths of the three unconscious men in black robes one by one, and struck them under the lower jaws with his fingers, hiding them between the teeth.
All the poison sacs were shaken out and thrown into the Ningbi Pond.
"Auntie, you've been knocked unconscious, how can you interrogate me?" Yang Zhaoxi looked at the three unconscious men in black robes and couldn't help but puzzled.
"A conscious person must seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. If you want to interrogate the truth, it depends on your aunt's methods!" Liu Xiaomu said confidently and arrogantly.
As he spoke, Liu Xiaomu took out a small, rusty chime from his arms, held his other hand, filled it with Yin energy, and flicked the chime several times. Invisible sound waves swayed from the mouth of the bell.
It enveloped the man in black robes closest to her.
The man in black robe seemed to be pretending to be a corpse. He suddenly stood up from a sitting position. His eyelids were open and his eyes were empty. His lower jaw was drooped and trembling slightly, as if he wanted to speak but was unable to do anything. Liu Xiaomu flicked his hand, and his lower jaw immediately returned to its original position.
People began to utter meaningless syllables, as if they were talking in their sleep.
Liu Xiaomu chuckled, with a sweet and charming voice that spread out like a ripple. Even Yang Chaoxi beside him was briefly absent-minded, as if he was about to reveal the most unspeakable secrets in his heart.
to express his feelings to her.
Just as he was in a trance, Liu Xiaomu beside him began to ask the man in black robe: "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
The face of the man in black robe was sluggish, neither happy nor sad. He moved his lips and uttered words without any emotion: "My name is Zhu Duiyou, and I came to find Ru Shui Jian. My father is a fortune teller, so he has a good name."
Yishou! The character for "Dui" is Daze..."
The man in black robe turned out to be a talkative person. He kept chattering and wanted to go on. Liu Xiaomu directly asked three questions in succession: "Where are you on duty? What is the name of the person in charge? Who else is here tonight?"
As expected, the man in black robe interrupted his meaningless confession and followed Liu Xiaomu's question obediently, continuing: "I am the 'Hu Ben Guard' of Taiwei Palace, Hong Taizhu is our superior, and we all obey his orders. Come tonight
Thirty brothers, Fei Cai, Wu Dayong and I..."
Yang Zhaoxi had come out of his trance, looking at the black-robed man in front of him who answered every question and kept telling him everything, and silently gave Liu Xiaomu a thumbs up.
In this way, Liu Xiaomu followed the law and summoned the three men in black robes one after another. After interrogating them for a long time, they dispersed the skills. Finally, he asked about the ins and outs of the matter:
Wang Jin, the envoy of Taiwei Palace, had indeed guessed that the Rushui Sword Stele would fall into the Ningbi Pond! So he built plank roads openly and secretly visited Chen Cang. On the one hand, he joined forces with Henan Yin to dredge the large and small canals in Luoyang City, not only for political achievements, but also for ancient relics;
On the one hand, they secretly recruit river and lake rangers who are good at water to form the "Hu Ben Guards", who come at night from time to time to search for the Water Sword Monument at the bottom of the Ningbi Pond. Occasionally, the Tiger Guards are also sent to pretend to be civilians and lurk at the river dredging site.
, to guard against someone catching something good and hiding it secretly.
As for the wide water surface of Ningbi Pond, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming to inspect, Zhu Duiyou bluntly said that they have divided the Ningbi Pond, which is 16 miles away, into sixteen zones. Each team of three people is responsible for one zone.
It is half a mile of the pool bank, extending to the center of the pool. Then from the bank to the depth, step by step, carefully inspect.
Tonight, the area extending one mile from the bank of the pool to the middle of the pool has been searched, and no trace of the Rushui Sword Monument has been found. All the tiger and guard guards guessed that the ancient stele should have been thrown away by the bandit leader An Lushan.
Near the center of the pool.
Yang Zhaoxi also accidentally learned from Liu Xiaomu's interrogation that on the night of the roundup of the tiger demon, the monk Tan Zhengjue and the Japanese warrior Kibi Shina who fought with them had also briefly joined the Tiger Guard;
Liangshan was originally a member of the Huben Guards. From this point of view, Luo Rou's death must be related to the Huben Guards and even Taiwei Palace.
After the interrogation, the three men in black robes lay down again, sleeping in a twisted state among the grass. Yang Zhaoxi replaced their lower jaws one by one, and then asked sideways: "Aunt Xiaomu, what is the name of the magic weapon you just used?"
How come I’ve never seen it before?”
Liu Xiaomu sat on a round stone by the pool and said in a clear voice: "This is the 'Chaoyin Bell'. Some demon cultivators who specialize in 'Le Dao' used Shang and Zhou dynasty artifacts as materials and refined them after a while.
This magical instrument has wonderful functions such as confusing the mind, transmitting sounds thousands of miles, and imitating sounds."
After Liu Xiaomu finished speaking, he placed the mouth of the "Chaoyin Bell" at his throat and suddenly said: "Wan'er, I'm just a poor boy who grew up in the mountains. I only learned Taoist martial arts in vain, and I only have a chivalrous and righteous character.
I still don’t know where my ambitions and interests will go in the future, so how dare I talk nonsense and prevaricate a beautiful woman... Whoa, whoa!"
When Yang Zhaoxi heard it at first glance, it sounded a bit familiar! He soon understood:
This Liu Xiaomu actually imitated his voice with the "Chaoyin Bell"! He reproduced word for word what he and Cui Wan said in private a few days ago! I can't say it is a lifelike replica, it is exactly the same!
Yang Chaoxi suddenly felt his energy and blood rising, and he was so embarrassed that he wished he could plunge into the Ningbi Pond and end his life: "You, you have been spying on me a few days ago! It's too much to bully someone..."
Liu Xiaomu smiled sweetly, looked at the furious Yang Chaoxi, and said indifferently: "As a fellow Taoist, there is nothing wrong with paying attention to your movements! This is the magical function of the 'Chaoyin Bell'. Aren't you curious? My aunt will
Let me demonstrate it for you! Haha!”
Yang Chaoxi couldn't argue with her, so he rushed forward to seize the "Chaoyin Bell".
Unexpectedly, the "Chaoyin Bell" flickered and escaped from between his hands at an incredible angle, like a nimble little beast. When he looked closely, it was Liu Xiaomu who stretched out a red rope from his palm, holding "Chaoyin Bell".
"Yin Zhong" ran towards the south, which was vaguely the path he came from.
Yang Zhaoxi ignored the sleeping man in black robes. He quickly jumped up and stepped lightly, like a grasshopper, jumping on the high and low flowers and trees, chasing Liu Xiaomu in the direction of escape.
Two shadows are like the wind, competing all day and night, which shows the boldness of a skilled person.
Even the heavily guarded royal gardens like Shendu Garden have become a place for one person and one fox to play and play. If the high-ranking but taboo palace envoy of Taiwei Palace knew about it, how would he feel?
When approaching Wangchun Palace, the intoxicating fragrance of peonies hit her face. Liu Xiaomu suddenly stopped her steps, jumped lightly, and flew up to the huge Xieshan Mountain like a startled magpie stepping on a branch.
Yang Chaoxi followed closely behind and also landed on Linlin Daiwa. When she was about to pounce on him again, she stopped her with a "silence" gesture.
Listen attentively, metal and stone chime together, strings and pipes harmonize, and the melody of warblers and swallows comes out through the roof, creating ripples in your heart.
"Auntie, why are you here?" Yang Zhaoxi lowered his voice and looked sideways at Liu Xiaomu.
"It's a rare encounter, so naturally I'm here to watch the dance and listen to the music. Haven't you ever thought about meeting the girls from the Left and Right Jiaofang? Geez!"
While Liu Xiaomu answered, he did not forget to tease Yang Chaoxi a few times, and then looked at his face that was red with shame and anger, and felt that it was very interesting.
"..." Yang Zhaoxi fell into silence.
After listening for another long while, a female voice soared up into the sky, followed by a series of cheers. And the singers who sang seemed to have finished their curtain call.
After a while, the drums and music started blasting in unison, the sound was deafening, but no female voice came out. There was no noise from the entire audience, as everyone seemed to be watching something intently.
"Little Taoist priest, do you want to go in and see the dance performers in Zuo Jiaofang? Auntie can take you!" Liu Xiaomu looked at him with a smile, a persuasive expression.
"I... had nothing to do, so I went in with my aunt to take a look."
Yang Zhaoxi wanted to refuse, but her curiosity outweighed her self-esteem and she quickly changed her mind and agreed.