Chapter 35 Chapter Thirty-Five

The third day of July.dusk. When Wu Zixu returned to Fengzhu Pavilion, he felt dizzy and exhausted. It's a pity that he still has three paintings tonight, including Baichun's one.There was more to be done, and this night was his last chance to make a gap under the floodgate that would allow him to pass. He has to pull himself together. Just now at the reunion with the two beauties, he has returned to his true nature of a vagabond. Under the deliberate flattery of the two women, he was dazed and dizzy. He knew not to get drunk, but he still drank two more glasses. What he wanted most at this moment was to lay down his head and sleep on his grandma's big sleep.

But of course we can't repeat the mistakes of last night.He fell on the bed last night, and he didn't know anything about him immediately, and he didn't wake up until the afternoon, wasting a lot of time in vain. In a daze, he found himself in the bathroom at the back, wondering what he was doing here, and then regained consciousness.Looking at the waist-high tub in the center of the shower room, I felt wonderful, only a cold bath can relieve the drunkenness and restore the state. Thinking of this, I didn't hesitate anymore, poured water to undress, and when I was immersed in the icy cold water, my mind gradually became clearer.Suddenly felt something different, and for a moment couldn't think of where the difference was. While thinking about it, a woman's voice shouted: "Stay in the bucket, don't move."

Wu Zixu looked at him in astonishment, Wu Shuangnv rushed in, went straight to the tub, stared at him and said, "Speak on!" Wu Zixu felt a strange connection between yesterday and this moment, the time separation seemed to no longer exist, and said, "Can we talk after I get up and put on my clothes?" Wu Shuang said coldly: "I don't have time. Do you want to earn another seven pods?" Wu Zixu gave in immediately, concentrated his mind for a while, and said, "How much does the young lady know about the ancient city?" Wushuang took a deep breath, and asked back: "What do you know about the ancient city, let me tell you something."

Wu Zixu has long been used to her domineering style of asking but not answering, which also shows that she has an ulterior secret, and Gu Yueming must know her secret, but she just doesn't want to reveal it.He reluctantly said: "I only know that this city was built in the Warring States Period. There are rare treasures hidden in the city. For more than a thousand years, the goddess who rules Yunmengze has been guarding it. Now this goddess followed me to Yueyang Come on, and put me in such a desperate position. I don’t know anything else.” Wushuang Nu showed a sad look and said, "You already know more than I do. Ten black smoke bombs have been placed on your table, I wish you good luck."

Wu Zixu saw her turn around and wanted to go, and shouted: "Don't go! I beg you. Is that okay?" Wushuang girl stopped, returned to her usual indifference, and said indifferently: "Since you only know so much, and I don't want to see you naked, what's the point of staying?" Wu Zixu said: "We are doing business now, selling and buying. Of course, the seller hopes that the buyer will be satisfied with what he bought. But the girl doesn't seem to take what I said to heart. I still have a lot to say. That's what the girl said." Wu Shuang said calmly: "It's not that I don't take your words to heart. If so, I wouldn't come to you at all. Whether it's Wudun Pirates or you, I'm not interested at all. What attracts me is the ancient city. Now I know what I want to know. Understand? You are you, I am mine, my own business, I will try to deal with it, whether it succeeds or fails, it is my own business."

After all, I didn't care. First update. Gu Yueming entered the Hongye Building and was intercepted by Fatty Zhou, please go to the VIP room. After sitting down, Fatty Zhou said, "Baichun has something important to see Mr. Gu." Gu Yueming nodded and said, "I'll go see her right away." Fatty Zhou said: "Everyone is one of our own, so I'm not being polite anymore. Old Qian secretly informed me that Master Qiu Jiu has identified Lang Geng as a Five-Dun Bandit. Why are they so sure?" Gu Yueming said lightly: "Do you trust me, my own person, or do you trust them?"

Fatty Zhou smiled wryly and said, "Yueming is angry. I didn't mean any malice. I like Lang Geng, appreciate him, and appreciate him even more. I hope Yueming and Mr. Lang know that I am on your side." Gu Yueming stood up and said: "Boss Zhou must never take refuge in any party. The smartest thing is to remain neutral, otherwise you will definitely cause trouble. Farewell!" Wu Shuangnv felt the urge to cry. She hadn't cried since that night.When her mother passed away, she never cried. She only knew that there was an ancient city in Ze that could only be entered on July 14th, but she never knew the ins and outs of the ancient city. It wasn't until Wu Zixu told her that she knew that the ancient city had a history of more than a thousand years.

Where is she now? She didn't doubt Wu Zixu's words.Goddess Yunmeng not only exists, but also came to Yueyang with Wu Zixu.Because she had seen Goddess Yunmeng, or should I say Goddess Yunmeng let herself see her, during the moment when she was unconscious while watching the painting. Is this a kind of destiny? From the moment she came into this world, her fate was destined to go in this direction. Her father's disappearance, her mother's depression to death, and her uncle being forced to take poison to death were all part of her fate.But she knew that she was a little different from Wu Zixu.Wu Zixu has no choice, but she can make a choice, but she is unwilling to change the choice she has made, because she has nothing and lost all reason to live.After killing Gu Yueming, she will go to find the ancient city, where she will end her life with the poison pill she carried.

Is this the curse of fate cast on her by Goddess Yunmeng? She doesn't care anymore. Gu Yueming sat on the other side of the hall of Qingzhu Pavilion facing the statue of Yunmeng, and received the second letter from Feige sent to him by Mrs. Huameng. Baichun sat on the side, watching him read the letter carefully, with a pretty face showing an expression of observing his movement with god. Gu Yueming's expression was indifferent, as if the content of the secret letter in his hand had nothing to do with him at all. After reading it, he took out the flint and ignited the secret letter until it was burned to ashes.

Baichun couldn't help but asked, "Is Senior Sister alright?" Gu Yueming looked at her and said calmly: "Have you forgotten what I told you?" Baichun protested: "Brother Gu..." Gu Yueming cut her off and said, "Baichun absolutely doesn't care about this matter, don't interfere." Seeing his attitude of leaving immediately, Baichun hurriedly said, "Can I ask Brother Gu some other questions?" Gu Yueming said lightly: "What does Baichun want to ask?" Baichun asked gently: "Brother Gu, has he already known Miss Shuangshuang?"

Gu Yueming sighed secretly, knowing that she had seen through the delicate relationship between herself and Shuangshuang, but on the surface she remained calm, and said in a deep voice: "It's best for Baichun not to know these things, and don't ask Miss Shuangshuang, one day Baichun will tell you about it." Pure understands what I say.” Baichun said unyieldingly: "Brother Gu! What happened? Baichun really doesn't understand. Brother Gu has a strange attitude towards Shuangshuang, and he knows that Lang Geng is a fake Wudun Pirate, but he refuses to expose him. Seeing him like he's a real friend." Gu Yueming said in a deep voice: "I still say the same thing, Baichun ignores it." Baichun said: "Then tell Baichun! What are the chances of Mr. Lang escaping?" Gu Yueming cast his eyes on the goddess Yunmeng on the opposite side, stared intently, and after a while, he said slowly: "I can give Baichun an affirmative answer, no matter whether Lang Geng is a painting fairy or a five-dun thief, he will leave safely in the end Yueyang City, because his life should not be terminated, otherwise it would be too unreasonable." After speaking, he left his seat. Gu Yueming entered the Fengzhu Pavilion, Wu Zixu was sitting in a corner with his head in his hands, the floor was covered with torn or crumpled waste drawing paper, and in contrast to it were two portraits of beauties hanging on the other wall, each with its own charm. The graceful posture presents the most moving moment of the beauty in the painting, with both body and spirit, which can be called the best in the painting. On the round table are all kinds of painting tools such as brushes, inkstones, brush washers and paints. Gu Yueming was not surprised, and came to the "painting table" in a calm manner, pulled out the chair and sat down. Wu Zixu moaned in a tone almost crying: "I have lost the ability to draw a fairy." Gu Yueming was still admiring the two pictures of beauties, nodded and said: "These two pictures must be painted by immortals. Does your problem come from Baichun's paintings?" Wu Zixu said painfully: "When I painted these two pictures, if there was divine help, it would be effortless. But when I draw pure strokes, my mind goes blank, and my writing is even worse than before. My mother! This is a painting plague. " Gu Yueming said as if nothing had happened: "She doesn't want you to go." Wu Zixu raised his head suddenly, and said in a broken voice: "If you don't want me to go, are you trying to harm me? Didn't you say that she is calling me, summoning me to the ancient city? I am so obedient now, why is she making things difficult for me? One less painting , I can still get away, what is more important than saving my life?" Gu Yueming said: "Can you do it?" Wu Zixu was slightly astonished, calmed down, and was speechless, after a while, buried his face in the palms of his hands, and said mournfully, "Brother Gu is indeed my confidant, he understands me very well." Gu Yueming said casually: "Brother Wu has already followed Ruan Xiuzhen's way." Wu Zixu was so frightened that he raised his head again, his eyes shot a frightened look, and said, "What did you do to him?" Gu Yueming turned his eyes away from the two paintings, cast his eyes on him, and said leisurely: "Brother Wu has a little more smell, which seems to be there, seeps out from the skin, and lasts for a long time. This smell remains. As long as there is a trained hunting dog, Ruan Xiuzhen can still find you." Wu Zixu said: "It's impossible, if someone has tampered with me, how could I not know? Maybe it's because of the fragrance of beauties!" Gu Yueming said: "Don't forget who I am, how can this kind of method deceive me. If you think about it carefully, where is the mistake?" Wu Zixu was startled and said: "Someone must have tampered with the bathtub! At that time, I already felt that something was wrong. Alas! Fortunately, brother Gu found out, there is still a way to think about it." Gu Yueming sighed: "If you follow the Tao, you will follow the Tao. This smell has combined with you and becomes your body odor. Tell me, who can do anything about your own smell? This smell will accompany you for a period of time. way to get rid of it." Beads of sweat dripped from Wuzi's forehead, and he said in shock, "Then what should we do?" Gu Yueming said: "If you want to track you by scent, only hounds can do it except me. As long as you escape to Yunmengze, where the hounds bind their feet, you will be safe." Wu Zixu asked doubtfully, "Why didn't the hunting dog dare to enter Yunmeng Lake?" Gu Yueming said indifferently: "Because that is the territory of Goddess Yunmeng, there are evil wolves for her to drive, which can make you go straight without encountering half a wolf, and also make it impossible for you to avoid it. Do you understand? Now the world In the meantime, only she has the ability to protect you, and I'm just in your blessing." Wu Zixu said sadly: "It's worth noting such a blessing. I'm really thankful to her." He pondered again: "What does she think of me?" Gu Yueming said: "This is the problem that Ruan Xiuzhen has a headache, and it is also a problem that we have a headache, but our situation is better than Ruan Xiuzhen, because we know more than him. Of course we don't really understand ghosts and gods, we can only guess , For example, people do boring things, how can ghosts and gods have such leisure time, so every dream she wants you to have has a purpose behind it. I think her purpose is to evoke the memories of your previous life. As for What's the use of doing this, only she knows. Since she tried every means to get you to come to the Hongyelou and let us meet, of course it won't be as simple as killing you. She wants you to learn the secret of the ancient city from me, and then Follow me to the ancient city without choice. Ruan Xiuzhen's methods further prove that my idea is correct." Wu Zixu heaved a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "I feel more and more that your view is reasonable, and I am more willing to believe it. Have you brought the river map?" Gu Yueming said: "The river map is no longer useful." Wu Zixu stared at him blankly. Gu Yueming sighed: "After I left the Hongye Building last night, I have been hiding in the vicinity of the hanging dipper pond and the waterway. Until just now, I have not left for a moment. I saw with my own eyes that under the personal supervision of Ruan Xiuzhen, people from the Dahemeng installed a mechanism in the Under the water outside the sluice, if you go out from the bottom of the sluice, you will definitely fall into this trap and cover the net. The Dahemeng requisitioned the nearest houses and deployed the fast horse team. Your escape exit has changed. into a dead end." Wu Zixu said in disbelief: "Are you really sitting there for more than ten hours and watching the changes?" Gu Yueming said: "It's not too long! The longest time I have been monitoring the same place non-stop for five days and five nights." Wu Zixu gasped and said, "Fortunately, you are not my enemy, otherwise I would definitely die." Gu Yueming remained silent. Wu Zixu thought for a while, and said, "What should I do now? I can't think of a better way than going out of Yueyang City." Gu Yueming said: "Of course there is a better way." Wu Zixu showed an expression of being rescued from a desperate situation, and said happily, "Brother Gu taught me." Gu Yueming said: "Just don't do anything, let's see what good arrangements our goddess has. And you can do whatever you want, as long as you think you should do it. Do you understand?" Wu Zixu was stunned when he heard this, and he recovered after a while, saying: "Last night you scolded me for refusing to face reality, and now you are teaching me not to face reality, I am confused." Gu Yueming said relaxedly: "The reason why I said that last night was because I didn't know what the goddess wanted. Now that I have figured it out, of course I don't worry. The so-called man is not as good as the sky. No matter how smart Ruan Xiuzhen is, how can he be with the supernatural being?" Goddess comparison. If Goddess doesn’t want you to leave like this, of course she has a clever arrangement, and she won’t make you suffer. If her purpose is to kill you, she doesn’t need to spend so much effort on you.” Wu Zixu said: "If Master Qiu Jiu enters the building and captures me alive, who will pity me?" Gu Yueming said indifferently: "Of course it's me. On the way Dahemeng escorts you back to the main altar, I will rescue you. No matter how secret their actions are, they can't hide it from me, and no one can stop me. Including Qiu Jiushi. It is no different from escaping from Yueyang, but the difficulty is a world of difference. Because I am in the dark, they are in the light, and take the initiative to control them in my hands." Wu Zixu showed a moved expression. Gu Yueming stood up and said: "Let go and do whatever you want. Now sleep well, and hope that your goddess will come to sleep tonight to enlighten you." Gu Yueming left Hongye Building and walked leisurely on the bustling street full of bright lights and people coming and going.Compared with the fiery scene on the street, his heart is like a world of ice and snow. The situation is by no means optimistic. What he was worried about was not Wu Zixu, but Mrs. Hua Meng. Although Mrs. Hua Meng wrote the second Feige biography, the content was decided by Ji Shan.The number one killer and executor of Eunuch Feng's subordinates is indeed hiding his secrets, and he and Mrs. Hua Meng have been involved in the cruel and ruthless political power struggle between the emperor and Eunuch Feng at the same time.Ji Shan sees it very accurately, he will not ignore Mrs. Hua Meng, and no matter what he does or how he explains, Eunuch Feng will not allow him and Mrs. Hua Meng to live. He has only one choice, which is to choose to stand. On the same front as Ji Shan, so they have a chance. For the first time since he was sensible, he was fighting for survival, and he was fighting for a woman. Can Ji Shan beat Eunuch Feng? This possibility is extremely low.Eunuch Feng has been in the turbulent struggle of the imperial court all his life. He has survived three dynasties and has grown old. Ji Shanxin pointed out that the only way to bring down Eunuch Feng is to kill Ji Nieti, and Gu Yueming is the only one in the world who can do it.Eunuch Feng and Ji Nieti have the same interests, and no one can shake their relationship.One of them controls the government, and the other controls the military power. To break their invincible combination, one of them must start. Under normal circumstances, it is almost impossible to kill Jneti, but if Jneti enters the mysterious and unpredictable Yunmengze, the impossible will become possible. What Gu Yueming faced was an unprecedented choice of life and death. In this situation, there was only the choice of life and death, and the others were not considered. If the opportunity comes, he will kill Jneti without hesitation.I just don't know if all this is part of Goddess Yunmeng's grand plan. He felt faintly by intuition that in the end everything would be finalized in the strange region dominated by her. Eight Gardens. Qiu Jiushi sat in the gazebo in the garden with a lonely expression. Ruan Xiuzhen sat down beside him and sighed. Qiu Jiushi asked: "Is something wrong? Why are you sighing?" Ruan Xiuzhen said: "I'm sad because of you. I walked all the way just now, and saw you were troubled and preoccupied. This is something I've never seen with you, so I couldn't help but feel heavy. For Ideally, the price you paid is too high." Qiu Jiushi smiled wryly: "People are strange, the less you want to think about a certain person, the more you will think about it." Ruan Xiuzhen said: "This is called love. Since ancient times, poets and poets have almost written about the love between men and women, but certainly no one understands what love is. I only know that once the fire of love is ignited, it can become a prairie fire. It happened like a catastrophe.” Qiu Jiushi said: "Don't talk about it! The differences between Baichun and I cannot be resolved, so she didn't come to talk to me again, because there is nothing to say. I was thinking just now, why did God put me in this place? position, if I met her before joining the Dahemeng, I would definitely go to her desperately, and now I can only suffer the bitterness of losing her silently." Ruan Xiuzhen saw that he stopped himself from speaking, but couldn't help but vomit bitterness, and understood his feelings.Said: "Things between men and women are so wonderful, they will only get deeper and deeper. People like the Ninth Master who are not easily emotional will be even more serious once they are emotional." Qiu Jiushi said: "What's the matter with you today, you don't come to explain me, and you keep fanning the flames." Ruan Xiuzhen said: "Because the day after tomorrow is our day to act, we can't delay it, I hope you know what you are doing, and you won't regret it." Qiu Jiushi said: "What's the latest news?" Ruan Xiuzhen said: "Five escaped robbers handed over the sixth and seventh pictures of beauties tonight. According to the timing of his painting, he should start painting Baichun's portrait tomorrow. The morning of the day after tomorrow will be the best time for us to act. Gu Yueming will not go to Hongye Building at this time, and most people in Hongye Building, including the five escaped robbers, should still be intoxicated in their dreams." Qiu Jiushi said: "What if he refuses to write a portrait of Baichun?" Ruan Xiuzhen said: "Today is the third day of July, and four days later will be the big day of Hongyelou's 10th anniversary dinner. It takes time to frame the beauties. If the five thieves can't be finished, there will be no time to hang them at the dinner party, and the five thieves will be displayed." It’s a deliberate delay, so why should we be polite to him? The time for action is fixed, and the plan must never be changed.” Qiu Jiushi fell silent. Ruan Xiuzhen said: "After arresting people, we must prevent them from being stopped and robbed. Qian Shichen will send a troop of 500 people to set up defenses along the way until we send the five escaped robbers aboard, and immediately set sail to teach the enemy that there is no chance take." Qiu Jiushi's eyes were full of murderous intent, and he said in a deep voice, "Gu Yueming!" Ruan Xiuzhen nodded and said: "To Gu Yueming, we must be careful. Don't think that he is alone. He has always been the most ferocious group of thieves. The strength of a person is not only the speed of the sword, but also the excellent strategy, which should not be underestimated." Qiu Jiushi said: "We can cut off the tendons and tendons of Wudun Pirates on the spot, so it is absolutely safe." Ruan Xiuzhen smiled wryly and said, "Can you be so cruel?" Qiu Jiushi shook his head dejectedly. Ruan Xiuzhen said: "A compromise is to feed Wudun Pirates the drug, the effect will be the same." Qiu Jiushi agreed, "Just do it like this!" Ruan Xiuzhen said in a deep voice, "Have you decided?" Qiu Jiushi was silent for a moment, and said decisively: "It's decided." Ruan Xiuzhen said: "Okay! That's the decision. This is a road with no turning back. After capturing the five thieves, we have to persevere until the final victory comes." He sighed again: "Frankly speaking, I have the same thought as you now, that is, to see what else Li Ling in Yunmengze can do to change the direction of the development of the matter." Qiu Jiushi didn't speak, but his eyes became firmer and brighter.Anyone can see that even the power of ghosts and gods cannot change his strong and indomitable will.