Chapter 9 Chapter 8 Yinghua Pavilion
Only three streets away from the "Linmen Inn", there is a much smaller "Yingfeng Inn", which is mostly an ordinary hotel where ordinary merchants stay.
Fang Jijie, a disciple of "Shou Snake Dao" sent by Wudang to Xi'an Mansion, walked to the door of a room on the second floor of the inn and knocked on the door with a predetermined code.
The person who opened the door was a young man with tanned skin and rough cheeks. He was Jiao Hongye, a disciple of Wudang's "Bing Crow Dao".Fang Jijie nodded, hurried in and closed the door behind him.
Guidan Leiben sat quietly in the room with his eyes closed, but he had already opened his eyes at this moment.Xi Xiaoyan next to him was gesticulating moves with his left hand in the air, with an anxious expression on his face, as if he wanted to fight quickly.
"How is it?" Gui Danlei's withered hair was hidden under the scarf so as not to attract attention.
Fang Jijie shook his head.
"Those people from 'Linmen Inn' haven't been transferred yet. It seems they haven't found them yet."
Gui Danlei breathed a sigh of relief.But if he didn't find the master for a day, he still couldn't feel at ease for a moment.
"Unexpectedly, so many people from various sects came here. How did this news leak out?..." Gui Danlei was puzzled. "It should have only been known to us..."
The Wudang disciple who came with him, Chen Daixiu from "Suppressing Gui Dao", and four other disciples from "Bing Crow Dao" lived in the other two rooms respectively.They don't want too many people together so as not to attract suspicion.
Xi Xiaoyan stopped at this moment.He lowered his head and said, "Senior Brother Gui, I'm sorry... When I was packing my luggage, I told some fellow students..."
"Reckless!" Gui Danlei scolded, but seeing Xi Xiaoyan's face full of guilt, it was hard to blame him. "Forget it...you would never have thought that there would be spies in Wudang Mountain..."
Wudang disciples, everyone has undergone extremely hard training, and it is impossible to stay in Wudang Mountain for a long time unless they have a strong will.It's hard to imagine anyone among them accepting bribes from outsiders.
——Unless you have a goal in mind when you first get started...
"Senior Brother Gui, I want to put forward some ideas." Fang Jijie has been in the world for a long time, so he is naturally more thoughtful: "These people come from all over the provinces, that is to say, the news of the head's entry into the customs is spread to all directions quickly at the same time. I am afraid that the only one who has such ability is..."
"It's from the imperial court." Gui Danlei patted his knee.
"We Wudang faction, did we make enemies in the imperial court?" Jiao Hongye asked.
Gui Danlei sighed and shook his head: "We won't know until the deputy head of the division comes back from the capital... This is not the most important thing right now. The most important thing is to find the head first." He frowned and said again : "So many enemies... If I knew this, I would bring at least thirty people here."
"So what if there are many enemies?" Xi Xiaoyan sneered proudly: "I don't believe it, their martial arts can make the master!"
"It's not their martial arts that I'm afraid of." Gui Danlei said with a worried face, "Even if a tiger encounters an invisible trap, it will sometimes be caught."
Yin Xiaoyan thought about it many times, but she still couldn't figure it out: Who is this strange guest who has lived here for more than ten days? She only knows two things: one is that the gold brought by the guest is long enough to occupy the wing, and also the most popular Shuqiao girl here; the other is that he never drinks, but drinking is more expensive than any other wine tea leaves. In this kind of place, if you can afford this kind of money, no one will ask who you are. Xiaoyan is Miss Shuqiao's close friend.So now she also becomes the handmaid who serves this guest. By the way, she also knows one more thing: this guest likes to take a bath.There was a big bathtub in that wing room, and he had to take a bath in very hot water every time, soaking his white jade-like body flushed with blood. Every time she added water, Xiaoyan's face turned red when she saw the guest's body.She worked in this kind of place, so she had seen a lot of naked men.But I have never seen such perfect lines and textures.It's hard for Xiaoyan to imagine how a person can exercise such a beautiful body. Although Miss Shuqiao was taken down, she only slept in this guest's room for two nights in the past ten days.Besides, every night, he just listened to Miss Shuqiao play the piano. Every guest who comes here to find Miss Shuqiao must listen to her famous piano skills.But Miss Shuqiao told Xiaoyan: She knew that most of the guests were not listening at all, they were either trying to pretend to be elegant, or they were looking for opportunities to flatter her. As for this guest, he just closed his eyes when he listened to the music, and he didn't appreciate Miss Shuqiao much after listening to it.But Xiaoyan felt that he seemed to really like to listen. Only once, after listening to the music, the guest was silent for a long time, and then sighed and said: "I like everything that is beautiful. The most beautiful things are unadorned, so they often appear in the most extreme situations." Xiaoyan didn't understand at all. When guests and Miss Shuqiao are in the room, they don't always talk much.For a girl as popular as Shuqiao, even if the other party can afford the money, she still has the freedom to refuse customers.But Miss Shuqiao did not refuse.She patiently accompanied him in the room every day, sometimes drawing pictures, sometimes reciting poems, sometimes even just sitting, silently sipping tea, and she didn't seem to feel bored. Once Xiaoyan couldn't help asking her.She smiled and answered Xiaoyan: "You are still young and don't know how to distinguish men. There is a kind of man, as long as you are with him, even if he doesn't say a word, you will be very happy." For most of the day every day, the guest shuts the door and hides alone in the room.Xiaoyan didn't know what he was doing inside.Once passing by, she thought she heard a muffled shout coming from the door. The guest has a long cloth bag, which is placed on the table.This cloth bag is never opened when Shuqiao or Xiaoyan are in the room. A customer once asked her to do a set of laundry.It was a strange white robe, like the kind worn by Taoist priests, with a strange symbol on the chest.He told Xiaoyan not to hang it outside after washing, but to hang it in the room.When Xiaoyan washed it, she found that the robe was dyed a little red, and it was difficult to wash it off. Now she is holding a basin of hot water and walking on the corridor, about to add it to the big bathtub in that room. She lowered her head and saw her own reflection in the water.She knew that her appearance was getting more and more beautiful.After a while, she will no longer be a maidservant.Then it will be commensurate with Miss Shuqiao. Maybe that's not bad luck?Xiaoyan thought.It's better than being ugly and continuing to be a maid.The girls who work here don't have much choice. But Xiaoyan still couldn't erase a trace of sadness in her heart: she couldn't accept obediently that her own destiny couldn't be controlled by herself. Xiaoyan was about to walk to the door.She told herself to cheer up.You can't use this look to your guests.Otherwise, if the madam sees it, it will inevitably be beaten and scolded again. Xiaoyan also reminded herself that after serving this guest to take a bath, remember to go to the kitchen to make tea.
Jing Li and Hu Linglan led the horses and walked aimlessly on the streets of Xi'an.They haven't spoken to each other since they left the "Linmen Inn".Jing Li didn't smile anymore. At this time, Hu Linglan couldn't help but speak. "If you asked him to go with you just now, he would definitely follow." Jing Li thought for a while. "may be." "so you……" "I can only teach him martial arts." Jing Li shook his head. "I can't tell him how his life will go. It's up to him to decide." Hu Linglan nodded, and stopped talking. The two walked for a while, and Jing Li said, "It's time to find a place to stay." At this moment, someone shouted behind them: "It's you!" Everyone on the busy street turned their heads to look at the shout. I saw a figure that looked like a little boy, leading a tall white horse, walking towards Jing Li and them at a fast pace. "Brother Jing! Sister Lan!" Hu Linglan was overjoyed, she let go of the rein and walked towards her.The two happily held hands in the middle of the street.The "boy" was still jumping with excitement. Who else besides Miss Tong?She was wearing men's clothing, a headscarf, and a veil covering her face. She didn't recognize her, and she couldn't tell whether she was a man or a woman.There are two swords crossed behind her back: one is the blunt iron sword used for martial arts; the other is naturally the "Still Life Left Sword" given to her by Yan Heng when she parted in Wushan. "How did you come here? Your father..." Hu Linglan asked in disbelief.At the same time, Jing Li also led the two horses over. "Originally, Dad was going to take me back to Chengdu. But after two days, he suddenly said to me: Go find them! I'll come right away, but I can't keep up with you on the way..." Tong Jing didn't follow me for a long time during the journey. The conversation was so urgent and fast that both Jing Li and Hu Linglan could hardly hear them clearly. She pulled off the scarf and looked at Jing Li with a shy face: "I think it's because of what Brother Jing said to Dad before leaving... Brother Jing, thank you very much!" Jing Li shrugged, just looked at Hu Linglan and smiled: "Okay, someone will be in charge of ordering again." Hu Linglan burst out laughing when she heard it.Tong Jing couldn't understand, so she scratched her head. "I'm still worried that I won't be able to find you, Xi'an Mansion is so big..." She looked around: "Ah, where is Brother Yan? Where did he go?" Jing Li put away his smile. Tong Jing had never seen this brother Jing who was always energetic and always smiling, showing such a lonely look.
Fan Zong squatted in the narrow alley, inspecting Liang Si's body lying on the ground. Of course he didn't know that this person was called Liang Si.But across the street from the "Linmen Inn", he noticed that this pedestrian was very strange. Fan Zong has been at the corner of the market opposite the inn, monitoring the movements of the martial arts people in the "Linmen Inn".The city of Xi'an is too big, and it is not sure whether Master Yao is in the city. He and the three "Shou Snake Dao" disciples stationed in Xi'an couldn't find out his whereabouts by themselves, so they decided to focus on spying on the movements of these enemies. Fan Zong dressed up as a merchant, and hid all his weapons in his luggage so as not to attract the attention of those enemies. There were many people coming and going in and out of the "Linmen Inn" that day, and there were also many strange characters.He had seen several strangely dressed men and women go in.Not long after, one of the couple left again.Although the two were suspicious, they were not in a hurry, and it seemed that they had no mission, so Fan Zong gave up the idea of following them. ——If Fan Zong knew that the man was "Wudang Hunter", his decision would definitely be different. Then he saw Liang Si going in and coming out.He obviously shrank, trying not to attract attention, and his expression was tense. Sure enough, after a while, two more warriors came out, hanging him from a distance - Fan Zong could tell that they were the bodyguards of the local "Zhenxi Bodyguard".And the fellows of "Shou Snake Dao" have already found out that Yan Qingtong, the head of "Zhenxi Bodyguards" and Xinyi sect, is the host of this gathering of warriors from various factions. — very suspicious. So Fan Zong decided to follow to inquire.In broad daylight, of course he can't perform lightness kung fu, he can only follow behind inconspicuously like an ordinary person. This Liang Si walked all the way to the east of the city, entered a back alley and disappeared.The two bodyguards stood guard on the opposite side of the alley.Fan Zong was even more sure that these people were weird, so he waited patiently in the distance. After a while, Liang Si reappeared and walked on the street again.His appearance was more sneaky, he looked back from time to time, the two bodyguards followed him more carefully, keeping him farther away from Liang Si.It would be difficult for Fan Zong not to be discovered by one of the parties, so he had to drag the distance so that he could only see the two bodyguards but not Liang Si. After walking for a long time, he suddenly saw the two bodyguards stepping forward quickly, as if they had taken out something from under their robes and hid it inside their arms. Fan Zong had guessed what would happen. If he wants to prevent things from happening, he probably has time.With his martial arts accomplishments in charge of guarding Wudang Mountain, it is easier to deal with these two ordinary bodyguards than with two bugs.But unless it was absolutely necessary, he never wanted to take the risk of exposing the fact that Wudang disciples had already arrived in Xi'an. So when he entered this uninhabited narrow alley, what he saw was Liang Si's body. Intuition told this elite disciple of the "First Snake Way" that this matter was extremely unusual.He tried his best to rummage through Liang Si's clothes - of course he was careful not to touch the blood flowing from his neck - to see if there were any clues. Finding nothing, Fan Zong was very distressed. Then he noticed: the little finger of Liang Si's left hand had long pointed nails.It looks like something yellow is glued to it. Fan Zong picked up the hand and took a closer look.There is some residual powder hidden inside the nail. He brought the little finger close to his nose and took a slight sniff.Then he frowned anxiously, and immediately flung that hand away violently. "poison!" Although Fan Zong didn't piece together the whole thing, he already clearly felt ominous. He concentrated on recalling the place where Liang Si had stayed just now. One of the skills of being an elite of the "Shou Snake Way" is the ability to have a photographic memory of the environment. He remembered. ——A big signboard hanging on the street, swinging slowly against the wind.There are three big characters written on it: "Yinghua Pavilion" It's no longer time for scruples.Fan Zong fully unfolded the "Tiyun Zong" light kung fu, his slender body like a praying mantis, stepped on the wall of the alleyway and climbed onto the roof.At the same time, he had already pulled out the belt full of short flying swords from the bag, and quickly hung it on his body. He didn't stop, silently crossed the roof tiles one after another, and ran straight to the east of the city.
Liang Si's body, still left in the narrow alley, began to cool down gradually. He will never be the only deceased in Xi'an Mansion today.
Yin Xiaoyan thought about it many times, but she still couldn't figure it out: Who is this strange guest who has lived here for more than ten days? She only knows two things: one is that the gold brought by the guest is long enough to occupy the wing, and also the most popular Shuqiao girl here; the other is that he never drinks, but drinking is more expensive than any other wine tea leaves. In this kind of place, if you can afford this kind of money, no one will ask who you are. Xiaoyan is Miss Shuqiao's close friend.So now she also becomes the handmaid who serves this guest. By the way, she also knows one more thing: this guest likes to take a bath.There was a big bathtub in that wing room, and he had to take a bath in very hot water every time, soaking his white jade-like body flushed with blood. Every time she added water, Xiaoyan's face turned red when she saw the guest's body.She worked in this kind of place, so she had seen a lot of naked men.But I have never seen such perfect lines and textures.It's hard for Xiaoyan to imagine how a person can exercise such a beautiful body. Although Miss Shuqiao was taken down, she only slept in this guest's room for two nights in the past ten days.Besides, every night, he just listened to Miss Shuqiao play the piano. Every guest who comes here to find Miss Shuqiao must listen to her famous piano skills.But Miss Shuqiao told Xiaoyan: She knew that most of the guests were not listening at all, they were either trying to pretend to be elegant, or they were looking for opportunities to flatter her. As for this guest, he just closed his eyes when he listened to the music, and he didn't appreciate Miss Shuqiao much after listening to it.But Xiaoyan felt that he seemed to really like to listen. Only once, after listening to the music, the guest was silent for a long time, and then sighed and said: "I like everything that is beautiful. The most beautiful things are unadorned, so they often appear in the most extreme situations." Xiaoyan didn't understand at all. When guests and Miss Shuqiao are in the room, they don't always talk much.For a girl as popular as Shuqiao, even if the other party can afford the money, she still has the freedom to refuse customers.But Miss Shuqiao did not refuse.She patiently accompanied him in the room every day, sometimes drawing pictures, sometimes reciting poems, sometimes even just sitting, silently sipping tea, and she didn't seem to feel bored. Once Xiaoyan couldn't help asking her.She smiled and answered Xiaoyan: "You are still young and don't know how to distinguish men. There is a kind of man, as long as you are with him, even if he doesn't say a word, you will be very happy." For most of the day every day, the guest shuts the door and hides alone in the room.Xiaoyan didn't know what he was doing inside.Once passing by, she thought she heard a muffled shout coming from the door. The guest has a long cloth bag, which is placed on the table.This cloth bag is never opened when Shuqiao or Xiaoyan are in the room. A customer once asked her to do a set of laundry.It was a strange white robe, like the kind worn by Taoist priests, with a strange symbol on the chest.He told Xiaoyan not to hang it outside after washing, but to hang it in the room.When Xiaoyan washed it, she found that the robe was dyed a little red, and it was difficult to wash it off. Now she is holding a basin of hot water and walking on the corridor, about to add it to the big bathtub in that room. She lowered her head and saw her own reflection in the water.She knew that her appearance was getting more and more beautiful.After a while, she will no longer be a maidservant.Then it will be commensurate with Miss Shuqiao. Maybe that's not bad luck?Xiaoyan thought.It's better than being ugly and continuing to be a maid.The girls who work here don't have much choice. But Xiaoyan still couldn't erase a trace of sadness in her heart: she couldn't accept obediently that her own destiny couldn't be controlled by herself. Xiaoyan was about to walk to the door.She told herself to cheer up.You can't use this look to your guests.Otherwise, if the madam sees it, it will inevitably be beaten and scolded again. Xiaoyan also reminded herself that after serving this guest to take a bath, remember to go to the kitchen to make tea.
Jing Li and Hu Linglan led the horses and walked aimlessly on the streets of Xi'an.They haven't spoken to each other since they left the "Linmen Inn".Jing Li didn't smile anymore. At this time, Hu Linglan couldn't help but speak. "If you asked him to go with you just now, he would definitely follow." Jing Li thought for a while. "may be." "so you……" "I can only teach him martial arts." Jing Li shook his head. "I can't tell him how his life will go. It's up to him to decide." Hu Linglan nodded, and stopped talking. The two walked for a while, and Jing Li said, "It's time to find a place to stay." At this moment, someone shouted behind them: "It's you!" Everyone on the busy street turned their heads to look at the shout. I saw a figure that looked like a little boy, leading a tall white horse, walking towards Jing Li and them at a fast pace. "Brother Jing! Sister Lan!" Hu Linglan was overjoyed, she let go of the rein and walked towards her.The two happily held hands in the middle of the street.The "boy" was still jumping with excitement. Who else besides Miss Tong?She was wearing men's clothing, a headscarf, and a veil covering her face. She didn't recognize her, and she couldn't tell whether she was a man or a woman.There are two swords crossed behind her back: one is the blunt iron sword used for martial arts; the other is naturally the "Still Life Left Sword" given to her by Yan Heng when she parted in Wushan. "How did you come here? Your father..." Hu Linglan asked in disbelief.At the same time, Jing Li also led the two horses over. "Originally, Dad was going to take me back to Chengdu. But after two days, he suddenly said to me: Go find them! I'll come right away, but I can't keep up with you on the way..." Tong Jing didn't follow me for a long time during the journey. The conversation was so urgent and fast that both Jing Li and Hu Linglan could hardly hear them clearly. She pulled off the scarf and looked at Jing Li with a shy face: "I think it's because of what Brother Jing said to Dad before leaving... Brother Jing, thank you very much!" Jing Li shrugged, just looked at Hu Linglan and smiled: "Okay, someone will be in charge of ordering again." Hu Linglan burst out laughing when she heard it.Tong Jing couldn't understand, so she scratched her head. "I'm still worried that I won't be able to find you, Xi'an Mansion is so big..." She looked around: "Ah, where is Brother Yan? Where did he go?" Jing Li put away his smile. Tong Jing had never seen this brother Jing who was always energetic and always smiling, showing such a lonely look.
Fan Zong squatted in the narrow alley, inspecting Liang Si's body lying on the ground. Of course he didn't know that this person was called Liang Si.But across the street from the "Linmen Inn", he noticed that this pedestrian was very strange. Fan Zong has been at the corner of the market opposite the inn, monitoring the movements of the martial arts people in the "Linmen Inn".The city of Xi'an is too big, and it is not sure whether Master Yao is in the city. He and the three "Shou Snake Dao" disciples stationed in Xi'an couldn't find out his whereabouts by themselves, so they decided to focus on spying on the movements of these enemies. Fan Zong dressed up as a merchant, and hid all his weapons in his luggage so as not to attract the attention of those enemies. There were many people coming and going in and out of the "Linmen Inn" that day, and there were also many strange characters.He had seen several strangely dressed men and women go in.Not long after, one of the couple left again.Although the two were suspicious, they were not in a hurry, and it seemed that they had no mission, so Fan Zong gave up the idea of following them. ——If Fan Zong knew that the man was "Wudang Hunter", his decision would definitely be different. Then he saw Liang Si going in and coming out.He obviously shrank, trying not to attract attention, and his expression was tense. Sure enough, after a while, two more warriors came out, hanging him from a distance - Fan Zong could tell that they were the bodyguards of the local "Zhenxi Bodyguard".And the fellows of "Shou Snake Dao" have already found out that Yan Qingtong, the head of "Zhenxi Bodyguards" and Xinyi sect, is the host of this gathering of warriors from various factions. — very suspicious. So Fan Zong decided to follow to inquire.In broad daylight, of course he can't perform lightness kung fu, he can only follow behind inconspicuously like an ordinary person. This Liang Si walked all the way to the east of the city, entered a back alley and disappeared.The two bodyguards stood guard on the opposite side of the alley.Fan Zong was even more sure that these people were weird, so he waited patiently in the distance. After a while, Liang Si reappeared and walked on the street again.His appearance was more sneaky, he looked back from time to time, the two bodyguards followed him more carefully, keeping him farther away from Liang Si.It would be difficult for Fan Zong not to be discovered by one of the parties, so he had to drag the distance so that he could only see the two bodyguards but not Liang Si. After walking for a long time, he suddenly saw the two bodyguards stepping forward quickly, as if they had taken out something from under their robes and hid it inside their arms. Fan Zong had guessed what would happen. If he wants to prevent things from happening, he probably has time.With his martial arts accomplishments in charge of guarding Wudang Mountain, it is easier to deal with these two ordinary bodyguards than with two bugs.But unless it was absolutely necessary, he never wanted to take the risk of exposing the fact that Wudang disciples had already arrived in Xi'an. So when he entered this uninhabited narrow alley, what he saw was Liang Si's body. Intuition told this elite disciple of the "First Snake Way" that this matter was extremely unusual.He tried his best to rummage through Liang Si's clothes - of course he was careful not to touch the blood flowing from his neck - to see if there were any clues. Finding nothing, Fan Zong was very distressed. Then he noticed: the little finger of Liang Si's left hand had long pointed nails.It looks like something yellow is glued to it. Fan Zong picked up the hand and took a closer look.There is some residual powder hidden inside the nail. He brought the little finger close to his nose and took a slight sniff.Then he frowned anxiously, and immediately flung that hand away violently. "poison!" Although Fan Zong didn't piece together the whole thing, he already clearly felt ominous. He concentrated on recalling the place where Liang Si had stayed just now. One of the skills of being an elite of the "Shou Snake Way" is the ability to have a photographic memory of the environment. He remembered. ——A big signboard hanging on the street, swinging slowly against the wind.There are three big characters written on it: "Yinghua Pavilion" It's no longer time for scruples.Fan Zong fully unfolded the "Tiyun Zong" light kung fu, his slender body like a praying mantis, stepped on the wall of the alleyway and climbed onto the roof.At the same time, he had already pulled out the belt full of short flying swords from the bag, and quickly hung it on his body. He didn't stop, silently crossed the roof tiles one after another, and ran straight to the east of the city.
Liang Si's body, still left in the narrow alley, began to cool down gradually. He will never be the only deceased in Xi'an Mansion today.