The prince came with great fanfare and left with great fanfare. When they arrived, the eight hundred light cavalry were majestic and murderous. When leaving, the horse dragged Du Hui's wife through the streets, completely naked.
Heyang City was shocked, and they were all shocked into silence by the prince's thunderous methods.
The beautiful middle-aged woman was parading naked on the street. She was so ashamed and angry that she almost wanted to bite her tongue and commit suicide. But the prince mercilessly struck the sword with the hilt into the beautiful woman's mouth, beating her until she could not speak.
Mu Chen used Du Qian's sword in Huangshan to kill Du Hui and Du Chu. It is tantamount to the grandson killing his father and ancestors in disguise. Even Bai Ze is frightened when he thinks about these methods.
The beautiful woman was dragged all the way to Yihong Mansion by Mu Chen and sold to the old madam for a penny. He threatened that within seven days, if this bitch did not accept hundreds of guests, he would destroy the Yihong Mansion.
The madam was so frightened that she knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly. Seeing that the prince had already galloped away on horseback, he quickly grabbed the beautiful woman in his hand and pinched her with such force that her skin turned purple.
"You bastard, if you don't accept hundreds of guests within seven days, no, within six days, you will not be able to survive or die!" the old bustard shouted sternly.
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After this incident, Bai Ze did not return to the city lord's palace with Mu Chen. No matter how much the young general tried to persuade him, he insisted on returning to his residence in the city first.
"Okay, Brother Bai." Mu Chen said, "You protected Qingling from Dushan and all the way back to the city. You are very tired. I will send someone back home to send the best healing medicine to your residence, but tonight The banquet is a token of gratitude, Brother Bai can’t shirk it anymore!”
"Definitely." Bai Ze agreed, sealed the spirit deer with his sword, and begged the prince for a horse, and the two groups parted ways.
"Let's go back to the mansion!" Seeing Bai Ze walking away, Mu Chen greeted and headed straight for the city lord's mansion.
Seeing Bai Ze's back covered in blood, Mu Qingling was reluctant to leave, but she still went back to the house with her brother. After all, her father was still waiting in the house, and he must have been very worried after not seeing him for many days.
Bai Ze walked through the alleyway and returned to the residence where Xie Xuan brought him that day. The blue stone was green and the door remained the same. He reined in his horse, opened the door, and tied the horse in the yard. He did not return for many days. There were many fallen leaves and dust in the yard. It seemed that no one came back after he left.
Bai Ze untied his sword, cleaned up the house, boiled water and took a bath, bandaged the arrow wound on his back, and put on clothes.
The Nine-Colored Deer Jade has great healing properties. The crossbow arrow entered his body that day and was considered a serious injury. However, although the wound has not healed yet, it is not a serious problem.
The City Lord's Mansion moved very quickly, and after Bai Ze tidied up, someone had already arrived to deliver a message, along with two boxes of medicine and a doctor to look at Bai Ze's injuries.
"There is no need for a doctor." Bai Ze declined, accepted the post and the medicine box, and said to the servant who came to the door: "Please report back to the Crown Prince, and I will make sure to attend the appointment tonight."
"Young hero, take a rest." The footman who came to the door said goodbye.
Bai Ze sent him out the door and opened the medicine box. As expected, the City Lord's Mansion was rich and wealthy. There were three kinds of elixirs in the box that Xie Xuan had told him to look for, as well as a bottle of golden sore medicine and two bottles of Peiyuan Pill.
Bai Ze put the things away and thought about how many more things he needed to prepare. There are still nearly three months until the New Year's Eve date agreed between him and Xie Xuan. Within three months, he had to do his best to prepare what Xie Xuan had told him.
After working hard and fighting many times, Bai Ze felt extremely tired now that he was free. After thinking for a moment, he went into the house and fell asleep.
However, after less than an hour of sleep, Bai Ze was suddenly awakened by the sound of blacksmithing next door. He opened his eyes, relaxed his mind and body and fell into a deep sleep. Unconsciously, he also lifted the disguise technique and became the size of a child again.
"Cang! Cang! Cang!" The sound of iron hammering next door continued, one after another, and there was an inexplicable realm that was vague and elusive.
Bai Ze heard this interestingly, got up and turned into a handsome young man. When he looked in the bronze mirror on the bedside, he saw the ghost mark on the mountain between his eyebrows shining brightly. The mountain ghost said that when he fully comprehends the magical effect of the mountain ghost seal, the mark will disappear.
The young man touched the mark between his eyebrows and smiled bitterly, but he would rather never understand the Mountain Ghost Seal in this life and let the mark remain on his eyebrows.
He sat on the bed, adjusted his breath, and meditated. His energy went up to the third level twice in succession, and reached the other shore. The pure Yang energy in his body surged abnormally, and there were faint signs of breaking through the eighth level of the sea of suffering.
Bai Ze didn't know whether this was good or bad.
"Chun Yang Zhen Jing" Qi travels through the major meridians throughout the body. Bai Ze practices the Qi into the body and practices for a while. Suddenly, he noticed that in the sound of blacksmithing next door, there was a sense of Mo Yujian's intention coming slowly. The young man was surprised and opened his eyes, feeling strange in his heart.
"Could it be that the person next door is a swordsmith?" Bai Ze became interested and took out a can of monkey wine from the chess piece on his wrist. This wine was given to him by the gang of hozens from the back mountain after the formation of the valley to kill Du Ming that day. There were three cans in total. I originally wanted to keep them all for Xie Xuan, but now that the swordsmith next door is really interesting, Bai Ze plans to Grab a can and visit the neighbors.
With two swords hanging on his waist, Bai Ze pushed open the door and walked out.
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The prince rode his horse into the family, and immediately there were flying pigeons carrying messages and delivering the news.
The flying pigeon grew up eating yellow rice. That kind of corn was soaked in the elixir spring water for 7,749 days. It has an orange color. Ordinary cats and dogs can become extraordinary beings if they eat it.
The flying pigeon was very fast and carried the letter to the Hongchen Inn outside the city. The person who received the news was none other than He Zongzheng, the head of the He family branch who mysteriously disappeared in Weicheng according to the secret guards of Heyang Hou.
Aristocratic families generally have clan families and branch families. The Zong family was powerful and usually served as officials in the dynasty, and their family members were often brought to the dynasty. However, the ancestral land cannot be cut off from incense and sacrifices, so the clan will establish a separate branch to take charge of the ancestral hall and perform the duties of the clan head.
He Zongzheng wears a scholar's scholar's shirt and shakes an ivory paper fan in a graceful manner, showing that he is a highly respected gentleman.
"Master, there is a letter from the city, saying that Mu Chen led his troops to crush the Du Mansion. The Du Mansion was full of people, and all the men who crossed the riding whip were killed." He Zongzheng's boy read the letter, "Du Hui's wife was killed by Mu Chen's horse." She was dragged naked through the streets and sold to the Yihong Building for a penny, and he also said that if the lady received no more than 100 guests in seven days, he would immediately step into the Yihong Building."
"Ha, after all, you are young and don't know fear." He Zongzheng was sitting in the room and smiled when he heard the words, "The more vigorously the prince kills, the more the Southern Territory family becomes separated from the city lord's palace, and in turn they will stand with the He family in Weicheng. Bian. When Handan gives an order and sends troops from the north and south, Mu Suifeng will inevitably die!"
In this way, twenty years ago, Mu Suifeng's great revenge of killing his eldest brother He Xian and humiliating the He family by riding horses in Weicheng was avenged!
"Master, where are we now?" the book boy asked.
He is said to be a book boy, but he has been with He Zongzheng for thirty years and is already an adult man.
"Secretly contact the major families in the seven cities. When Handan gives the order, we will raise the flag to attack Heyang City!" He Zongzheng sneered. It's fine that others don't know Mu Suifeng's little tricks, but who is he? He studied under Jixia Academy, and even this little conspiracy can't be dealt with, which is really an insult to the teacher.
Mu Suifeng used Mu Chen as a chess piece, and his horse trampled the Du family. At most, he was charged with lax discipline and the prince's arrogance. But since his brother is here in Handan, he is determined not to be able to escape with this golden cicada.
At that time, Handan issued an order to order Mu Suifeng to return to the palace and explain the prince's horse trampling on the family, and he was in a difficult situation.
Enter the palace and die.
If you don't enter the palace and resist the king's orders, you will still die.
"Let's see how you deal with the next game!" He Zongzheng closed his ivory folding fan and stood up suddenly.
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Bai Ze brought the monkey wine, knocked on the door next door, and said: "Junior Bai Ze, after hearing the sound of the senior's forging, I feel the spirit of the clanging sword, so I brought a jar of fine wine and came to visit."
"Since you came to the door to salute, how can I not see the reason?" An energetic snort came from the door, "Come in!"
"Junior has come in." Bai Ze opened the door and walked into the courtyard.
Bai Ze didn't notice it before he entered, but as soon as he entered, he saw a sword furnace in the courtyard melting gold and breaking iron. The fire was blazing, and the temperature in the courtyard was more than three times higher than outside the door!
There are two worlds inside and outside the door.
Fortunately, Bai Ze was practicing pure Yang Qi, so the high temperature could not do anything to him. He closed the door with his backhand. The furnishings in the courtyard were extremely simple. Apart from the sword stove, there was only a set of stone tables and chairs.
The old man next to the sword furnace was forging with his chest bare, his beard and hair were messy, and his face could not be seen clearly, but he was generally ordinary. A black gold iron hammer was manipulated by him to suit the Taoist intention. He held the sword embryo, which was burned red by the sword furnace, in his left hand. He hammered it with a sonorous and powerful sound, vaguely mixed with the awe-inspiring sword intention.
Bai Ze was fascinated, and the spiritual platform was completely empty.
Beside the fiery sword furnace, there were twenty or thirty swords scattered here and there, but Bai Ze's eyesight was limited. At first glance, he felt that those swords were somewhat extraordinary, but when he looked at them again, he felt that they were ordinary, no different from ordinary swords.
Bai Ze felt strange. He saw that besides the twenty or thirty completed swords beside the sword furnace, there were also about a dozen obviously broken swords. He didn't know whether they were already there, or whether the broken swords also came from the old man's sword furnace.
"Dang!" With the final hammer blow, the sword embryo was put into the water tank to cool down, covered with a layer of mud, and then thrown into the sword furnace for burning.
"Boy, you said you brought some wine, let's try it." I wiped my hands, pulled my clothes up from my waist, put them on, walked to the stone table, placed two sea bowls, and looked at Bai Bai Ze glanced at it and clicked his tongue: "How can you, a little kid, drink wine? Why don't you go get a ladle of water from a vat of water in my room?"
Bai Ze was not surprised when he saw through the disguise at a glance. He sat down opposite the stone table with the wine jar, opened the mud seal, filled two bowls, picked up a bowl himself, drank a mouthful, and asked the old man: "How is it?"
"Haha, interesting!" The old man also grabbed the sea bowl, and after a mouthful, he was speechless and said happily: "Good wine! Strong but not strong, fragrant but not greasy, not bad! Have another bowl!"
The two of them drank three bowls in a row.
Bai Ze was stunned immediately, and the old man was no better. He shook his head, looked at Bai Ze with wide eyes, and said: "You little kid, you are to my liking! Which family do you study under? I have set up a formation." Fa, isolate the breath, you can still feel the sword intention of my sword furnace, it is a piece of uncut jade. Why not learn to forge swords with me!"
"This junior already has a mentor." Bai Ze said, "I just heard the clanging of iron and the faint sound of swords, so I came here to visit my senior. Come to think of it, your senior is also a famous swordsmith in the world, right?"
"It's not that famous in the world, but one or two spirit swords that can be taken out can still be used." The old man pointed at the two swords on Bai Ze's waist, and first commented on Huangshan, "It's just trash!" Then he commented on Wu Feng, "Good. Sword! Unfortunately, it was broken by a foot, and the sword’s intention was gone... Huh? There is a sword spirit! A broken sword hides a spirit. This is the first time I have seen it in my life!"
Bai Ze listened to the old man's words, and the more he listened, the more frightened he became.
"Boy, it doesn't matter who you study under." The old man poured another bowl of monkey wine and said to Bai Ze, "You have talent and a good youngster. If you are willing, I don't ask you to call me master, but call me master." Teacher, how about I teach you how to make a sword?"
