Volume II Winter Lake Chapter 214 Borrowing a Sword (1)
Piaotian Literature Qi Si has been waiting outside the Chao Zhai... Seeing Ning Que finally showing up... he breathed a sigh of relief and paused.
Then he walked towards the house, whispering the latest situation along the way.
It was already late at night, but the hall of the court house was still brightly lit. Several people sat in silence in the hall, and the atmosphere seemed a bit depressing. When they looked at the old man sitting at the head of the table, they always had a gentle smile on their faces.
But that smile seems a bit forced.[]
Qi Si and Ning Que walked into the hall. Everyone stood up, clasped their fists in salute, and announced their homes.
"Chang San, Chang Siwei."
"Liu Wu Liu Si."
"It costs six costs."
"Chen Qi"
These people in the imperial residence today were all the leaders of the Yulong Gang back then. After the Chunfeng Pavilion case, their identities were revealed and they had no choice but to leave the Yulong Gang and return to the imperial court. Now they are in the Xiaoqi Camp and the Guards Office.
They all have very important identities. At this time, everyone gathered in the imperial residence, naturally for that matter.
Chao Xiaoshu left Chang'an City Zhitao and took his brothers on a special trip to Lin 47 Lane to let Ning Que meet him. Ning Que knew the identities of these people. If they were counted from the secret guards,
, everyone can be regarded as colleagues, so it is not surprising that they appear here.
Chang San and others looked at Ning Que with complicated eyes.
When Chao Xiaoshu left Zhitao, he had vague intentions of entrusting the Yulong Gang and them to Ning Que, but Ning Que didn't accept it. They had always been a little confused about this matter, and they didn't understand why Chao Xiaoshu trusted him so much.
However, the past two years passed by in a flash, and now Ning Que had already become a famous person in Chang'an City. Only then did they realize that the second brother Chao had already noticed this son's good qualities.
"This is Mr. Chao." Qi Si introduced.
Ning Que looked at the old man with gray hair and a worried look, and felt a little angry for some reason. He frowned and said, "My parents are traveling not far away, but he is traveling happily and freely."
He sighed to the old man and explained for his son: "At first he was asked to take a merit test, and later he was asked to seek an official position. He has been detained for half his life. Now that he finally has a chance to get rid of these things, let him go."
Ning Que was slightly startled. He didn't expect that the old man Chao would be so open-minded. He also thought that Chao Xiaoshu had been the emperor in the underworld of Chang'an City for many years. The old man Chao came from a scholarly family, but he didn't care about it. He was also a man after all.
A shrewd person who has great ideas but is not good at coming up with them.
After thinking about this matter, he no longer had to avoid the old man and looked at the people around him and said: "The Southern Jin swordsman has been interrogated. The second brother Chao should have fought with Liu Bai."
There was a burst of exclamation in the hall, and Chang Siwei's face was full of worry. They had lived and died with Chao Xiaoshu for many years, and had an almost foolish confidence in Chao Xiaoshu, but it sounded like the person who took action was really
Sword Master Liu Bai still felt shocked and at a loss.
Sword Saint Liu Bai is the strongest person in the world. Even if Chao Xiaoshu's realm has improved after leaving Chang'an, how can he be his opponent? I just don't know what the outcome of that battle will be.
Ning Que said: "Liu Yiqing doesn't know the specific outcome of that battle. Chao Xiaoshu's sword was taken away. He must have been seriously injured, but he doesn't know where the others are now."
Qi Si scratched his head and said distressedly: "With the character of the second brother Chao, he will never do something stupid like killing people with a sword. The thing that needs to be confirmed now is how injured he is now. Where is he hiding...
..."The people in Shangshan Village were still imprisoned by the Southern Jin people."
"Unfriendly Sword Pavilion."
Ning Que looked at everyone and said: "Liu Yiqing dare not lie about this matter, because the academy will keep him prisoner until Chao Xiaoshu Zhitao is found. In addition, the academy has already sent a letter to Jiange to ask Liu Bai."
Although everyone present once had a illustrious name in the underworld of Chang'an City, and is now an important figure in the court, they really don't know much about the world of practitioners, and they don't know how to start. After listening to Ning Que's words,
Knowing that the academy actually came forward in person, I immediately felt more at ease.
Chang San added: "Your Majesty also knows about this matter. Tomorrow he will formally prepare a book and send it to the leader of the Southern Jin Dynasty to ask him for people. I think the people of the Southern Jin Dynasty should think about it."
Chen Qi had been standing silently in the corner, hiding behind people, as if he was not used to being seen by too many people. Suddenly he said: "I think there is something wrong with this matter."
Everyone looked at him, including Ning Que.
Ning Que had noticed before that when everyone introduced themselves, they all reported their names, except Chen Qi. At the same time, he remembered the description of the Yulong Gang members in Chang'an City's underworld, Chang Sanleng.
Qi Sihen, Liu Wuheng, Fei Liuji, Chen Qiyin.
How sinister is Chen Qi?
"Sword Master Liu Baihui took action against Second Brother Chao, maybe because he was happy to see Hunter Xin, maybe because he wanted to suppress my momentum in the Tang Dynasty, maybe because Second Brother Chao ate a piece of corn from the Jiange field."
Chen Qi seemed to be unable to feel the gazes of the crowd, lowering his head and speaking slowly. Although the content of what he said was a bit funny, his voice was as sinister as a mouse in the shadows.
"It's not important."
"The important thing is, why did Liu Yiqing come to challenge the academy? Why did he hold the sword against the second brother, and why did he want everyone to know about it?"
"I'm not a practitioner, and I don't know what practitioners usually think about, but I think if practitioners were still human beings, their way of thinking would be no different from ordinary people like us...
Ning Cao nodded and said, "I can prove this."
Chen Qi slowly raised his head, with a faint light shining in his small eyes: "Liu Bai is the strongest person in the world, so he cannot be an idiot.
It’s okay to send your own younger brother to slap the academy in the face. Even if you lose, it’s okay to sharpen your brother’s cultivation through the academy’s hands. For the disciple who died at the Chunfeng Pavilion in two years, I want to
It's okay to deal with Brother Chao and you, but holding Brother Chao's sword will make you mistakenly think that Brother Chao is dead, thus turning your own brother into a blind man. I don't think he will think this is feasible.
"
Ning Que was silent, recalling the battle at the side entrance of the academy, and confirmed that what Chen Qi said was reasonable. If he hadn't seen Liu Yiqing holding Chao Xiaoshu's sword at that time, he would never have chosen to take such a strong shot and kill Sword Saint Liu.
It would not do any good for Brother Bai to go blind.
"If I were Liu Bai, it would be enough for me to defeat the second brother Chao who had already known his fate, and then let my younger brother defeat Ning Que, which would be enough to make up for the incident at Chunfeng Pavilion. There is no need for me to have a mortal feud with the Academy or the Tang Dynasty.
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Chen Qi continued to say softly: "According to the information from the guard office, when you entered the second floor of the academy, your reputation immediately spread throughout the entire cultivation world. Although we are not practitioners, we all know that your name is in the heavenly book, and
Many details of the Chunfengting case have also been spread."
"The natural spread of news is definitely not that fast. At that time, there were people behind it, who wanted Nanjin Jiange to focus on Brother Chao and you. So I believe there are people behind these two things.
In the hands and feet, Liu Yiqing will hold the sword towards the second brother, which is one of the hands and feet."
Chen Qiping looked at everyone in the room and said: "There is only one person in the whole world who has the ability and courage to provoke the relationship between Tang Academy and Nanjin Jiange, and is also qualified to seek benefits from this matter.
The place that needs to do this is the Xiling Temple."
Outside the capital city of Southern Jin Dynasty.
There is an ancient pavilion in black and white on the cliff, which is called the Sword Pavilion.
The Jiange building goes into the cliff, which is a large and quiet cave. The top of the cave leads directly to the top of the mountain, with the sky to the north, and there is a green pool and a thatched house at the bottom of the cave, which is like a separate small world.
Liu Bai sat in his own little world, looking at the fine bubbles ejected by the blind fish in the Bitan. He slowly stretched out his hand to push the long hair on his shoulders behind his back, and asked calmly: "Who can give me an explanation?"
The news that Liu Yiqing was defeated miserably in the academy and became blind has spread back to the Southern Jin Dynasty. Along with this news, two letters from the Tang Dynasty also arrived in the Southern Jin Dynasty.
One of the letters was personally written by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and is now in the palace of the Southern Jin Dynasty King, which made the King extremely angry and helpless.
Another letter was written by an old woman in the academy. It is now quietly placed by Liu Bai's legs. The seal has been cut. He has probably read it.
Beside Bitan, more than a dozen important disciples of the second generation of Jiange were kneeling. Listening to their master's questions, they bowed their heads in silence, not knowing how to answer.
Liu Yiqing lost the head-on challenge. How can this be explained?
Liu Bai looked at Bitan in front of him and said expressionlessly: "Who can give me a solution to the fact that my biological brother has turned into a blind man..."
Some Jiange disciples said angrily: "The academy is too cruel, we must..."
"What must you want? Revenge? Why do you want revenge?"
Liu Bai said with an indifferent expression: "The way of swordsmanship lies in the spirit of moving forward without waves. Since I want him to defeat Ning Que and kill Ning Que, then it is natural for him to be defeated and killed by Ning Que. What's more, I let him
The reason why he went to the academy was to let him seek defeat and sharpen his sword."
The disciples were shocked and speechless, and then they realized that Master had already expected Liu Yiqing's defeat.
Liu Bai glanced at the letter beside him and said in a cold voice, "I just don't understand. I asked Yi Qing to clean his sword, but why did he take Chao Xiaoshu's sword with him?"
Everything about Sword Master Liu Bai is a sword, whether it is the loose black hair, the belt around his waist, the slightly swaying clothes, the back of his eyes and his voice.
When his voice became colder, the disciples of the Sword Pavilion by the pond seemed to see a divine sword being slowly drawn out of the eternal ice. Their eyes were invaded by the sharp sword intent, and they immediately began to sting and shed tears.
All the disciples were so frightened that they prostrated themselves on the ground, trembling and not daring to say anything.
Liu Bai slowly turned around, looked at the disciples by the pond with an indifferent expression, and said: "Except for kendo, my younger brother is relatively idiotic in other areas. It is precisely because he is an idiot that he is so idiotic that he even uses his sword towards Xiaoshu.
I can't think of any way to anger Ning Que, so who helped him think of it?"
There was deathly silence in the cave behind the sword pavilion.
I don't know how much time passed, but one of the disciples who was lying on the bank of the pond slowly straightened up. Then he stood up and took two steps toward the waves beside the pond, bowed his head and saluted, but said nothing.
Liu Bai looked at this disciple and said with an indifferent expression: "The Adjudication Department must be better than Jiange?"