Chapter 47 Chapter 45 Death in Exile, Silence

Tong Shu pressed the pulse on the side of Mu Xuanshi's neck, and took out another gray-blue goose feather with a tuft of light-colored fluff at the end of the feather.Tong Shu put the fluff close to Mu Xuanshi's mouth and nose, and protected it with his other hand to block the wind, but the fluff didn't move at all. Tong Shui turned around and nodded to Li Qichen. Li Qichen silently picked up the sword that Mu Xuanshi was casting. The sword had basically taken shape, and the word "Sangluan" was inscribed on the blade.Tong Su took the sword and hung it on his waist. "Let's go!" Tong Shu said softly.

Li Qichen nodded, and took another look at Mu Xuanshi. A generation of great masters passed away like this. The swords he forged were still held in the hands of different swordsmen, waving and drinking blood, for hundreds of thousands of years... Li Qichen felt pain in his heart, sighed secretly, turned around and ran into the dark night with Tong Shui, and the night quickly closed behind them. The world has returned to dead silence, only the fire is still burning, it seems to be used to life and death... Going back the same way, everything went well, seeing that there is a palace wall in front of you, and if you escape, you will be born.

The two blinked, but suddenly found a woman in blue standing quietly under a short wall in front of them in the moonlight. The woman was wearing a sky blue dress with a curvy train, the jade-colored skirt and sleeves were extra wide, her long hair hung down to her waist, she didn't wear any hair accessories, and the strands of her hair fluttered in the wind. She didn't speak, she didn't move, she didn't know when she appeared, like a ghost, those hair and clothes were shining in the moonlight. But no matter when she showed up, she'd already seen them... Tong Shu drew his sword in his hand and glanced at Li Qichen, but Li Qichen shook his head slightly.

In Li Qichen's mind, the common sense of assassination that he learned on Chiya at the beginning was quickly revolving. It seems that he has never touched on the Jiang country's laws and regulations, customs and customs, and the clothing standard level of the women in the harem... But look at this woman The clothes she wore faintly exuded a pearl-like luster. Although I didn't know what kind of material it was made of, it must be very high-quality.Moreover, the sleeves of the clothes are extremely wide, the arms hang down, and the cuffs almost hang down to the ground, making it impossible to work at all. It is expected that this woman is not a first-class servant, she must be a concubine or a princess.

Li Qichen was thinking, but he didn't stop, he and Tong led the two to come to the woman. Looking at the woman's appearance up close, she is only fifteen or sixteen years old, her skin is like snow, her eyebrows are picturesque, her lips are as bright as red plums, she looks like a jade woman, if it is not for her flickering eyelashes, it will really be misleading Thought it wasn't real. Tong Shui had already put his sword back into its sheath, and said with a soft smile, "We are good people, don't say anything, we won't hurt you." The woman blinked, looked the two of them up and down, and didn't speak.The two of them were covered in blood, and they were holding swords. They didn't look like good people no matter what.

Li Qichen was thinking about what to do.Leaving the Forbidden Palace from here is only a few dozen steps away. Even if the woman made a fuss at this time, the two of them are still confident to retreat. It's just that if things get serious, it will be more difficult to get out after going out.What if he hijacks this woman out of the palace?It is easy to ask gods to send gods away, and there is no danger at this time. Bringing one more person along will increase the danger even more, and it is not the best policy.If you want to kill this woman to silence... Li Qichen can't get rid of the appearance of Mu Xuanshi before his death, and the sad and despairing eyes are still lingering... At this time, I definitely don't want to add more murders... What's more, this The woman's expression is calm, neither frightened nor frightened, quite different from ordinary people, and I don't know why?

Li Qichen asked, "Who are you? What are you doing here late at night?" The woman looked up at Li Qichen, blinked hard a few times, swallowed, and didn't speak. But Li Qichen caught a trace of tension and fear from her movements and eyes.I'm afraid... This is a smart girl who found out that Qiang Liang violated the palace ban at night, so she was afraid that she would be hurt, so she pretended to be a dementia to protect herself. Thinking of this festival, Li Qichen breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Tong Shui, "Let's go!" Tong Shu was quite reluctant, perhaps because he had just killed someone, Tong Shu looked unusually excited, he blushed and approached the woman, as if he couldn't help but want to touch her.

Li Qichen hurriedly pulled Tong Sui away, turned around and left. Tong Shui turned his head and said, "We are destined to meet each other tonight, and we will meet again in the future. Don't forget me!" His voice had unconsciously grown louder, and it was very ear-piercing in the quiet night. In a hurry, Li Qichen pulled Tong Shu's arm harder and hurried away.Tong Shui didn't look back, he just untied the object in his waist and threw it at the woman. Although it was a reflexive blind throw, Tong Shi's strength was just right, and the thing landed on the woman's chest.

The woman took it with her hand, and looked closely in her palm, and saw that it was a piece of salt, only the size of a walnut, carved into the shape of a jade rabbit. The eyes of the rabbit were a columnar red ruby, piercing through the rabbit's head.Turn it over, there is an inscription on the belly of the rabbit, which is a word for "child". The woman held the piece of salt, clasped her hands on her chest, and stared blankly at the two black figures going away, neither shouting nor moving... At this time, the light fog had cleared, the bright moon was in the sky, and those The fluttering hair flutters faintly under the bright moonlight, like a living elf.

Yan Wei stayed overnight at Xiaoxing along the way, and hurried on the road, finally, she was about to arrive at Fancheng. It was getting late at this time, but Sutou had not been found yet, and she could not see any shadow of the city wall from a distance. Yan Wei suspected that she had gone the wrong way, and the more she walked, the more guilty she felt, but she had to keep going. Otherwise, they can only spend the night in this wilderness. Suddenly, there was the sound of a car rattling behind.Yan Wei hid by the side of the road and looked back, but saw three carriages coming in a row, carrying a lot of goods.There was a person sitting in the front car, dressed in black and brown, wearing a huge bamboo hat, holding a stalk of grass in his mouth, his cynical posture was very similar to Tong Shu, Yan Wei couldn't help but take a few more glances.

Seeing Yan Wei looking at him, the man slightly raised the hat with his index finger and looked at Yan Wei. Seeing that man's face, Yan Wei couldn't help being surprised and delighted: "You are...the one I met at Chu Zhenxuan..." Yan Wei paused because she didn't know his name at all. The man narrowed his eyes in confusion, as if he was also staring at Yan Wei intently. Yan Wei pointed to her nose and said, "You don't know me? In Chu Zhenxuan in Huaidu, I was with Tong Rate." Hearing the word Tong Sui, the man seemed to remember, and asked hesitantly, "You are... Yan Wei... girl?" Yan Wei remembered that it might be because he was wearing men's clothes, so he was not sure, so he quickly nodded and said, "It's me, I'm Yan Wei. I don't know your last name yet!" The man jumped out of the car and said, "My name is Zhao Lei. I saw you from a distance on Chiya before, but I didn't talk to you." Yan Wei smiled and said, "So you are Zhao Lei. I often heard Tong Shui mention it, but I didn't know it was you." Zhao Lei asked, "Where are you going?" Yan Wei said: "Go to Fancheng and find my father." Zhao Lei nodded: "Get in the car! We have to rest overnight, and we won't arrive until tomorrow." "Ah?!" Yan Wei exclaimed in surprise, "I thought there was Fancheng in front of me!" Zhao Lei said with a smile, "You've gone astray. There's a village in front of you, where you can rest overnight. To get to Fancheng, you have to go northeast for half a day. If you leave early tomorrow morning, you can arrive at Fancheng at noon." Yan Wei got into the car, and the car was full of goods, so she could only sit side by side with Zhao Lei at the front of the car.Even so, being able to rest her legs in the car was enough for Yan Wei who had been driving all day. The car moved forward slowly again. Yan Wei turned her head and asked, "Have you seen Tong Rate recently?" Zhao Lei shook his head and said, "No, I went down the cliff a few days after you went up the cliff, and I haven't seen each other since. Didn't you stay with him?" It was inconvenient for Yan Wei to tell him about the assassination, so she just shook her head and said, "No..." She immediately changed the subject and asked, "What kind of goods are in this car? There are so many." "Salt." Zhao Lei replied, "There are so many soldiers transported to Changyan Pass, these are only enough for two months." Yan Wei couldn't help saying, "Are there so many soldiers stationed at Changyan Pass?" Zhao Lei said with a smile: "Yes... I'm afraid we will start a war with Jiang Guo again..." After walking for less than an hour, I saw a small village ahead, hidden in the twilight, lifeless.Ordinarily, this time is the time when every family makes a fire and cooks, but from a distance, there is no wisp of cooking smoke in the whole village, which is really unusual. In a blink of an eye, the carts had arrived at the head of the village, and the sky was getting darker. There was no light from the windows of any house. Zhao Lei stopped the carriage, put his index finger and middle finger in his mouth, and whistled, several big men jumped out of the two cars behind, all dressed in short brown clothes, some of them even drew their swords in their hands. Zhao Lei stretched out his hand and said to one of them: "There seems to be something weird over there, go and have a look." Yan Wei looked in the direction of his finger, and in the distance, in the middle of the road, there was a dark mass, which looked like a person lying down. The man ran over quickly, leaned over and turned the thing over, was startled for a moment, waved to the crowd and said, "It's a dead man! There is no external injury on his body." After speaking, he continued to walk forward.Everyone quickly followed, and Yan Wei saw that, a little farther away, also in the middle of the road, there was also a person lying down. The person in the lead ran over, turned over the person who was lying down in the distance, and shouted: "This one is also dead, and there is still no external injury." There was a little panic in his tone. After Zhao Lei heard this, he drew his sword in his hand, pouted at the other person, and said, "Go and have a look at the next door." In response, the man kicked open the courtyard door of the nearest family, walked in with his sword in hand, came out after a while, and said: "There is no one inside, it seems that no one has lived in it for a few days." Yan Wei walked to the side of the first fallen corpse.Zhao Lei was afraid that she might make a mistake, so he hurriedly followed her. It was already dark, and with the last light of the sky, Yan Wei clearly saw that it was a middle-aged man in his forties, and the eye sockets of the corpse were densely packed with white fly maggots.Yan Wei felt disgusted and wanted to vomit, and covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve. Zhao Lei stepped back and stood in front of Yan Wei, saying, "Dead corpses are nothing to look at, don't scare you." Yan Wei suppressed her nausea and said, "Be careful, try not to touch these corpses, maybe it's a plague..." As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked, and several people took two steps back in horror. The person who was the first to turn over the dead body had already returned. Hearing this, he rolled his eyes in fright and almost fainted.