"Maple leaves are Chi You's shackles..."
"Legend has it that our Miao clan was defeated by the Yellow Emperor, and our ancestor Chi You was escorted and shackled for nearly two thousand miles with wooden torture instruments. His hands and feet were worn out by the shackles. After our ancestor was killed, the shackles were soaked with blood. It was abandoned and took root in the mountains and fields, growing into a maple forest like blood and fire..."
"Our ancestors fled here after being defeated, and this became the Miao territory, and we became the Miao tribe."
After saying this, Xiao Weng slowly blew out the smoke and touched the beard on his chin.
"This legend was only known to the older generation, but it has gradually spread in the past two years for some unknown reason, so that now everyone in our Miao territory knows it, so now the Miao territory is very hostile to you in the Central Plains."
The empress nodded and shook her head. She looked around at the corpses that had been cleared out of the field. She put her hands behind her hands and muttered: "When things go wrong, there must be monsters. There are people in your Miao territory who have great ambitions..."
Xiao Weng waved his hand, his behavior was quite bold.
"It doesn't matter. What I, Guishizi, focus on is business. If you give me money, I won't embarrass you. This Alang said that there are such people in Miao territory, so I must look down on him..."
He paused and pointed the chimney at Li Jing.
"This little brother injured someone from his tribe before. Now that he's out of Gui Shizi, I, Xiao Weng, have no reason to protect you."
Li Jing gave a long laugh, waved his hand and said: "Where is it? If it weren't for Xiao Weng today, I'm afraid there would be some trouble."
Xiao Weng glanced at the empress standing behind Li Jing without revealing any trace, turned and left with a smile: "Now that the matter has been resolved, I have nothing left to stay. If you want to stay away from Gui Shizi for a while, you can go hang out with a blacklist." Look for my people in the place of the lamp... Gui Shizi will be turned off at dawn."
Seeing the people Xiao Weng brought leaving together, Chi Meng took out the poison-avoiding beads from the wooden box and walked around Li Jing.
"I didn't expect you to be quite capable."
Li Jing did not reply, but touched her chin and looked at Hou Qing and the Empress.
"Now that our appearance is too eye-catching, there must be people guarding us outside. Should we leave Guishizi like this or should we disguise ourselves first and then go out?"
Hou Qing thought about it carefully and spoke slowly.
"Why don't you go back first and practice my music before coming back."
The two women looked at him at the same time, with cold expressions on their faces.
Hou Qing seemed not to have seen their faces, and looked at Li Jing: "Brother Li, what do you think?"
Li Jing was speechless. You've come this far and you're going back. Corpse Ancestor, your thinking is too out of the ordinary.
Also, why does Brother Li’s title come so easily...
"No, no, it's too time-consuming, little demon... Chi Meng's father hasn't rescued her yet, so this matter can't be slowed down."
Hou Qing nodded without hesitation and inserted the bone flute into his waist.
"That's fine. I'm just worried that it won't be in good taste when we fight later."
This time, the three of them were silent at the same time and walked out of the secret passage.
"Let's go out first..."
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After coming out, presumably because I had been delayed inside for too long, the bustling scene outside had dissipated. The Miao merchants who were passing by with their baggage not far away looked towards this side, with a faint expression on their faces. Angry look.
Li Jing frowned, raised his legs and walked towards the exit of Guishizi.
"In that case, I want to see what gifts these people have prepared for us."
The empress looked calm and walked beside her without saying a word.
Hou Qing Corpse Ancestor has always said little and always followed Li Jing's ideas, and now he will follow without hesitation.
"The teacher will have to give me a tune later."
Only Chi Meng had a confused look on his face. He turned around and looked deep into Gui Shizi and then at the backs of Li Jing and the others. He pursed his lips and followed, "Hey, don't risk your life! Everyone must be waiting for us outside." .”
Li Jing waved, narrowed his eyes and smiled: "If you want to save your dad, follow me."
Chi Meng curled her lips and kept muttering in a low voice. The people in front of her didn't care what she was talking about and left the underground cave in Guishizi directly.
The moon hung in the sky. I didn't know what time it was. Li Jing looked at the empress with a smile.
"I think it would be more appropriate to change my clothes."
The empress raised her eyes slightly and saw a giant, naked man standing in the middle of the semi-narrow road ahead. On the slopes on both sides of the road, there were countless figures of various colors holding swords.
As well as the archers and crossbowmen who seemed to have been waiting for a long time, rows of slightly cold arrows were instantly placed on the bows as they appeared.
"Boy, do you really dare to come out?"
There was a cold snort, and the figures dispersed to both sides. An old man in blue stood up, holding a small pipe in his mouth, looking down at Li Jing and the others.
Li Jing placed the sword box on the ground, held it up with one hand and smiled without saying a word.
The old man took off the pipe and held it in his hand, looking coldly at the three empresses beside Li Jing, his tone slightly arrogant.
"Those two Central Plains people, if you can kneel down and surrender, I will spare your lives, but you will have to become slaves of my clan. After being forgiven by my clan, I can release you back to the Central Plains..."
The old man obviously thought that he had eaten Li Jing and the others to death, and he had decided life and death for them in his tone. Then he waved the pipe in his hand, and someone immediately carried out a headless body next to him.
"If he is killed by you, you will be sent to this family to work as slaves until his family forgives you..."
Next to him, Chi Meng put his hands on his hips and gritted his teeth: "You old bastard! You are clearly the one who started the trouble, why do you want us to be slaves! When my father gets better, I will arrest you all!"
The old man's face suddenly darkened, and he looked at Chi Meng, who had been ignored before: "Little baby, haven't the elders in your clan taught you the truth that trouble comes from your mouth... You colluded with the outsiders in the Central Plains, waiting for the people in your clan to Let the elders come and get us."
Chi Meng was furious at that time, and his two pigtails kept shaking back and forth with his emotion: "Old bastard, you know who my dad is..."
Li Jing narrowed his eyes and smiled, pulling Chi Meng behind him: "Old man, tell me what will happen to me."
Before the old man could speak, a young Miao man next to him said angrily: "You? Of course you will be tortured by thousands of insects! You will be cut into pieces with a thousand cuts, and your skin will be peeled off and your muscles will cramp!"
Li Jing laughed dumbly and looked at the corpse whose head he had casually cut off.
Who is this person to you?
The old man nodded and pointed to the corpse next to him with his pipe: "Zhongyuan boy, if you can kneel down and kowtow to him, I can make your death a little more pleasant."
Hou Qing looked at the corpse, and then at Li Jing.
"I can make this dead man kowtow to you."
The empress next to her frowned and said coldly: "Why are you talking so much? Get out of the way and I will deal with them."
Li Jing raised his hand to stop her, frowned and whispered, "I suddenly feel like I'm being plotted against. Don't be impatient for now. Don't take action until later."
The old man over there obviously heard Hou Qing's neither high nor low voice. The previous pride on his face was wiped away, and his eyes were piercing like arrows.
"Shoot the arrow, not even the little girl, and kill it all!"
Li Jing sighed. He originally wanted to save the conflict situation between Miao and Central Plains, but it seemed that there was no way around it...
Just as he was about to open the sword case, Chi Meng who was next to him suddenly broke away from his hand, and the veil on his face was neatly taken off.
"stop!"
Li Jing was stunned for a moment, and then his pupils shrank. Before he could say anything to dissuade him, Chi Meng's voice sounded first.
"Old bastard, listen carefully! My father is King Chili, and I..."
The next second, an exquisite bronze medal fell into the hands of the old man in blue.
The old man was stunned when he saw the word "poison" written in thick ink in the middle.
"Saint..."
