A small passenger boat with a black roof sailed slowly on the river in the night.
There are monkeys singing along the river bank, and there are houses with lights on occasionally, and some fireflies are dancing around.
On a merchant ship in the distance, someone was playing the pipa.
There was an old boatman rowing an oar in the stern of the small Wupeng passenger boat, and there was an old gray-haired servant in the bow who was leaning on a few bags and was sleeping. There were two young people in the Wupeng cabin, a man and a woman.
Lin Xi had met these two people when they were recruiting new members in the college club. They were students of Zhige for three years, Chen Mu and Du Zhanye.
Holding a small volume of cipher text with completely upside down words, the handsome and steady Chen Mu smiled, looked at Du Zhanye and said: "For safety reasons, this is the last news report before we arrive at Biluo Mausoleum.
No one will contact us again...but you probably wouldn't have thought that the last message on the way would mention Lin Xi, whom I asked you to pay attention to."
Chen Mu looks extremely gentle and ordinary, but the relationship between the slightly fat Du Zhanye and him has never been like that of ordinary good friends. Instead, they have always maintained respect and awe for him, especially in this kind of situation where only two people are involved.
When people are alone.
She bowed slightly and said, "Your Highness, are you also going to transfer him to the west?"
"He is the one who got such high admission scores at Lingxia Lake, and he is a Windrunner... Only real battles can temper a truly powerful Windrunner. The war between Dragon and Snake is over, and it is a sure thing to transfer him to the west.
Things." Chen Mu smiled peacefully and said: "He is only mentioned in this message because he has become a spiritual priest."
Du Zhanye was originally not surprised that Lin Xi was mentioned in the secret message, but now she was shocked when she heard the word "spiritual priest", "spiritual priest?"
"He got a black fox cat that no one in Yunqin has ever been able to tame, and it's also a mutated three-tailed black fox cat." Chen Mu said with a smile: "That's not all, there is also the death of a holy master of the Shentu clan in Purgatory Mountain.
In the hands of him and Teacher Tong, he also brought back the secret of how cave barbarians control giant lizards."
Du Zhanye's mouth opened and could not be closed for a long time.
"From the time he refused Zhou Yongxian's solicitation in front of the Xinsheng Hall, I felt that he was the honest and proud talent that we in Yunqin needed most. From the time he left the academy to now, he has been confirming my first impression of him.
It looks great, and it's even better than I imagined." Chen Mu slowly crushed the small roll of cipher text in his hand into powder with his fingers, and sighed softly.
Du Zhanye had a worried look on his face, "But His Majesty seems to have a bad opinion of him."
"People can not escape from doing wrong."
Chen Mu sighed softly: "Even my father cannot make all judgments accurately. If his judgments are wrong, it may push Lin Xi to the opposite path that I don't want to see... I hope I will do some things in the future.
, so that Lin Xi will not be too alienated or even hostile to me and my father."
Du Zhanye's face turned slightly pale. After Chen Mu could say such words, she felt more and more that Chen Mu truly had the style of the late Emperor Yun Qin. However, she felt inexplicably uneasy in her heart. She knew
There are more things than ordinary Qingluan students and officials in the court. Naturally, she has some criticisms of some of the Holy Lord's actions in her heart, and if even the person who most sincerely respects and loves the Holy Lord in the world can't help but say something like this
This can only mean that in recent years, there have been criticisms in their hearts, and there are already many people who think that many of the Holy Spirit's practices are problematic.
"He should have set off from the Dragon Snake Frontier Army now. I'm looking forward to meeting him at Biluoling."
Chen Mu lowered his head, but said softly and sincerely: "I hope we have a safe journey with him... I hope I can become good friends with him."
…
Next to a dilapidated mountain temple, there is a simple courtyard with a few tile-roofed houses and a stable for livestock.
A tall, thin man wearing a patched coarse cloth and a stubble on his face was eating and looking at various secret documents.
He eats and sees things very fast. In the time it takes an ordinary person to eat a bowl of rice, he has already eaten a large barrel of rice, plus a few chickens and chicken cooked in thick oily red sauce in a large hanging pot.
A few pieces of bacon, and reading more than twenty confidential documents.
His name is also very interesting. His surname is Zhen. The single name is Kuai, and together it means "Really Kuai."
Zhen Kuai's superficial identity is the temple keeper and hunter of the mountain temple here, but his true identity is one of Wen Ren Cang Yue's spy leaders.
After reading all the secret documents and eating the other bucket of rice and all the bacon and soup in the pot, Zhen quickly burned all the secret documents and watched silently as they used old cloths to sew diapers in the house.
, prepared to welcome the pregnant woman who would come to the world a few months later, and then sighed in her heart.
He knew that although his name was "Zhen Kuai" and he was really fast at doing things, no matter whether he was eating, reading confidential documents, thinking about things, practicing, killing people... he was completely incomparable to General Wenren Cang Yue.
, are much slower. Everyone who follows General Wenren knows very well how powerful General Wenren is.
But what makes all people like him follow General Wenren and fight against the whole world is not just because of General Wenren's great strength, but also because General Wenren has shown kindness to them, and because they have deeply loved them.
He has made his mark as General Wenren, so this battle must be won for them.
…
…
"The opponent is the invincible Saint Master-level Wenren Cangyue... Even the Saint Master of Shentu's Purgatory Mountain would probably be slapped to death by him if he wanted to fight against the enemy Wenren Cangyue alone. Such an opponent would not even be able to kill himself.
We don’t know who is in the team, and even the academy cannot guarantee safety. This is truly an impossible task..."
"Taibai Restaurant...is there any Li Taibai in this world? Although you have disappeared for so many years, there are still traces of you everywhere in this world."
Lin Xi, who was wearing a bamboo hat and holding an old horse, looked at the restaurant in front of her through the black gauze hanging from the bamboo hat.
Several days have passed since the Yangjiantian Front retreated to the Longshe Mountain Range. Lin Xi has also rushed from the Longshe Mountain Range to Tai'an City in the central part of Donglin Province. In order to ensure safety, all planned transfers are kept secret.
As for Lin Xi, the secret order he received only ordered him to rush to Taibai in Tai'an City at sunset today.
Restaurant. As for who his companions were, how they rushed to Biluo Mausoleum, and which route they took, he had no idea at all.
Naturally, there is no poet in this world who has written about drinking wine, but because the middle-aged uncle who appeared in the sight of Yunqin people fifty years ago circulated many poems, he probably felt embarrassed and said
Some of them were written by a gentleman named Taibai. He probably also said that Mr. Taibai liked drinking, so Taibai Restaurant came into being in this world.
Lin Xi looked at the various people coming and going, the wine flags tilted up on the restaurant and the plaque with gold letters on a black background, and sighed.
A young waiter wearing a white scarf and soap-colored clothes came up to Lin Xi and saluted Lin Xi, "I wonder if this guest wants to light a fire or stay in a hotel?"
Lin Xi retracted her thoughts, looked at the young waiter, smiled slightly, and said, "I'll feed the horses."
The young man's signature smile remained unchanged, "Should I feed them refined bean cakes or ordinary grass?"
Lin Xi said: "My old horse is quite cunning. I have to mix chopped bean cakes with swill before eating them."
The young waiter smiled and said, "It's really tricky, but we can barely do it. Please follow me to the stable in the backyard."
Lin Xi nodded, led the old horse and followed the young man into the back yard through the side door.
There are three entrances to this Taibai Restaurant. The first entrance is a three-story restaurant facing the street, the second entrance is a two-story guest house with a side kitchen, and the third entrance is the stables and woodshed.
After placing the old horse in the stable, the young man didn't say anything, just nodded, but led the way, passed through a side door of the third entrance, walked along a narrow alley, and walked into the distance from Taibai.
The restaurant is located in a small residential courtyard separated by about five or six storefronts.
"You can take a rest for now. When your friends arrive, someone will naturally come to greet you." After opening a wing facing the east, the young man said to Lin Xi.
"good."
Lin Xi didn't say much, but not long after he opened the door and even before unpacking the only big package he was carrying, he heard undisguised footsteps, and then the footsteps stopped outside his door, and there was a rough sound.
A thick and hoarse voice rang out, "We're here, you can come with me."
Lin Xi pushed the door open and walked out. The person she saw speaking was a tall, bald man in purple silk clothes. He was in his fifties and had a faint scar on his face. He had the kind of appearance that could make a child cry when he walked on the road.
.
Seeing Lin Xi walking out, the tall, bald man didn't say anything. He just turned around and walked in front, pushing open a large room with a door ajar.
Seven people were already sitting in the big room, including the tall bald man and Lin Xi, there were nine people in total.
Just glancing over and seeing two of them, Lin Xi was startled, and then couldn't help but laugh.
Those were the two people who used to guard the granary in the Dragon Snake Mountain Range.
"Everyone knows how powerful that person is, and I can't guarantee that there won't be anyone like that person among us."
At this moment, the tall bald man glanced at everyone and said coldly: "So for everyone's safety, don't reveal any information about yourself when talking to each other."
"From now on, our identity is notorious in Donglin Province, but the Criminal Division has not yet been able to have their portraits of the wanted criminals Yeling Shilang."
"Now I am the bald wolf killing the black tiger inside."
"This is your human skin mask and an introduction to these ten wolves. In addition to clearly remembering your own identity, you must also clearly remember the identities of all the rest of us."
"Our initial target is an official who has retired and returned to his hometown. There is also an introduction above. Make sure to remember that you can only leave this house after wearing a human skin mask and destroying the note."
…
Jiang Xiaoyi and Bian Linghan, who were visiting the granary in Longshe Mountain Range, were two of the people Lin Xi was most familiar with in the world.
After the conversation with Tong Wei, Lin Xi was thinking about when he would meet them again. He did not expect that he would arrange his favorite way to meet them, and meet them directly here.
Because of the tall bald man's words, Lin Xi, Jiang Xiaoyi, and Bian Linghan just exchanged looks of surprise, and then the two acquaintances didn't need to look further. He took the person from the tall bald man "Tu Heihu"
While taking off the leather mask and note, he carefully looked at the remaining people.
It was said that there were ten wolves, but now including Lin Xi, there were only nine.
But Lin Xi knew that the other one would not be Gao Yanan, because even if the college specially arranged Gao Yanan to be with him, Jiang Xiaoyi, and Bian Linghan, it would not have wasted a lot of effort in sending Gao Yanan here from the distant Zhongzhou first.
Except for himself and the tall bald man, Jiang Xiaoyi, and Bian Linghan, the other five people were an old woman with a cold face, a particularly short middle-aged man with a big head, and a thin master in his fifties.
A strong man like a farmer, and a short-haired young man with a particularly cold aura.