Compared to the fear of the bearded man, Zhao Rang was even more incredible.
He looked at the knife he had received and the hand holding it.
I don’t understand why such extreme power exploded just now.
"Is it 'power' again?"
The knife is careless and automatic.
At the moment when the knife was drawn, Zhao Rang's spirit was ethereal, as if he had had a dream that he could not remember.
In the past, Zhao Rang still had very clear memories of when he triggered the mysterious artistic conception of "shi".
I can remember the color of the sky, the feel of the knife handle, and the smell of the air.
It was the first time that I felt completely empty like this.
Looking at the bearded man curled up in the corner, Zhao Rang couldn't help but walk towards him.
Seeing Zhao Rang's figure getting closer and closer, Huo Hu wanted to get up with support, but the severe pain in his body prevented him from moving at all.
Finally, Zhao Rang stood in front of him.
The bearded man looked up at Zhao Rang, as if looking at a majestic pagoda.
Zhao Rang's eyes were focused on his palm.
Just now, from his palm prints, I saw the ruined temple, the fallen Buddha head, and the blood-stained monk's robes.
"Is that person you?"
Zhao Rang asked.
The bearded man was a little confused by his question.
Now there are only the two of them here, where did "that person come from?"
After asking, Zhao Rang felt that he had taken it for granted... What he could see might not be visible with a beard.
"What happened at Hachioji Temple?"
Zhao Rang changed the question.
The bearded man in front of him was definitely one of the witnesses of that catastrophe.
The temple that was once the most popular Buddhist temple fell apart and turned into scorched earth between day and night. This has become the biggest secret in the northern territory of Dawei.
What is even more unexpected is that despite such a huge turmoil, the Investigation Department has remained silent and has not taken any action. The cause and effect behind this has become even more intriguing.
Upon hearing the words Hachioji, the fear in the bearded eyes gradually dissipated.
But he did not answer Zhao Rang's question.
"Can I trouble you with something?"
After a long time, the bearded man returned from his memories and whispered to Zhao Rang.
His breath was already very weak and unstable, and it took almost all of his energy to say a complete sentence.
"As long as it's not too much trouble."
Tonight, everyone is negotiating terms with Zhao Rang.
When Beard asked for help, he just changed the terms of negotiation. In the final analysis, they were all the same.
"After you kill me, can you burn me completely with fire?"
Zhao Rang did not agree immediately.
This request, while not troublesome, is strange.
Even if a normal person is about to die, he or she would like to keep a complete corpse so that he can be reincarnated in the future.
However, Zhao Rang did hear that monks seemed to be cremated after their death. Many eminent monks will leave relics in their bodies, and the rows of pagodas in temples are dedicated to enshrining these relics.
But Zhao Rang couldn't tell whether a bearded man was still a monk.
He is in cahoots with the Admiralty Escort Bureau. Even if he is a monk, he must have never practiced good deeds in his life and only loves killing people and setting fires.
"I didn't intend to kill you."
Zhao Rang said.
He came to the store for only one purpose - to find out what was in the 188 boxes shipped by the Admiralty Escort Bureau.
Later, the woman told Zhao Rang the answer, but was blocked by a beard.
Drawing the sword is a last resort.
Zhao Rang himself did not expect to be able to defeat him.
"If you don't kill me, I will commit suicide. Anyway, can you do me this favor?"
The bearded man requested again.
Without waiting for Zhao Rang to answer, the bearded man continued:
"In return, I can tell you the surprising thing you ask for."
After hearing what he said, Zhao Rang nodded and agreed to the matter.
"I don't care about Hachioji, and I don't care about your affairs. I just want to clarify two things."
"First, what is in those boxes, who ordered it, and why did the Admiralty Escort Agency want to transport it at this juncture. Second, what happened to my body... Why can I see... through your palm prints? Those things, why would he involuntarily draw out the knife, and also be able to break through your golden bell."
The two questions are not complicated, and the beard has something to say first.
He adjusted his posture, leaned completely against the broken courtyard wall, put his head back, and said quietly:
"There are people in the boxes, and there is a person in every box."
"Hagoromo decided, but I have never seen this person."
"She also set the time. I am only responsible for delivering the goods."
The first question has been answered.
The word "beard" is not wordy.
Zhao Rang pieced together what he said in his mind and found that the woman did not lie to him. The people in the car were indeed people, and they were directly related to Hagoromo.
Just when Beard was about to answer the second question, he suddenly tilted his neck and a stream of black blood poured out from the corner of his mouth.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Zhao Rang asked with concern. Just as he was about to step forward, he was suddenly stopped by a clear voice.
"Don't touch it, it's poisonous!"
The person who stopped Zhao Rang was the woman who had negotiated three conditions with Zhao Rang before.
"Why did you kill him?"
Zhao Rang asked angrily.
Of the two questions just now, Zhao Rang was actually more concerned about the second one.
After all, the first question concerns Baihe Mountain, and the second question is closely related to himself.
After hearing what his uncle said and going through the strange changes just now, Zhao Rang was very eager to find out what was going on.
"He didn't have long to live."
The woman said nonchalantly.
In her eyes, a human life is worth less than an insect.
"Even if he is going to die, he can die after answering my second question."
"Who do you want me to ask now? Is it possible that you can answer it?"
The woman smiled frivolously and said:
"I can't answer. I don't even understand what your second question means."
"Then why did you kill him?"
Zhao Rang asked rhetorically.
"I think."
Kill people just because you want to.
Zhao Rang had nothing to say. He looked at the bearded corpse and prepared to complete the help he had promised him earlier.
"You don't want to live anymore?"
As soon as Zhao Rang started to move, the woman's voice came again.
"This doesn't seem to have anything to do with you, right?"
Although the woman told him the truth, it did not make Zhao Rang feel any better about her.
"Of course it does matter!"
The woman said while blocking Zhao Rang.
"If the evil wind poison in his body is burned by fire and blown by the wind, not to mention this town store, even half of Baihe Mountain will die!"
Zhao Rang didn't know whether there was any exaggeration in her words, but he had given up his previous plan.
"Are everyone else dead too?"
Zhao Rang asked calmly.
The woman didn't answer, she just walked to the big car parked in the backyard and opened the wooden box on it.
These boxes have air holes on both sides.
The people inside all took a secret medicine called Gui Xi San, which can make people fall into a deep sleep like a turtle hibernating, and reduce breathing and heartbeat to a minimum.
If you don't examine it carefully, it is almost the same as a dead person.
The person in the box is still alive.
Zhao Rang said that those who were dead were the escorts and escorts from the Admiralty Escort Agency who came with Beard.
"Their outfits are really weird."
Zhao Rang came closer and took a look into the box. He found that the clothes worn by these people, both men and women, were very bright, like a peacock with its tail open.
He was wearing hand-woven straw sandals on his feet, and a palm-wide coarse cloth bag was tied around his waist. There seemed to be a lot of things in it, and it looked bulging.
"Do all people from the South dress like this?"
Zhao Rang asked.
He had not been to the Southland.
But these people are from the south.
So he took it for granted that people in the Southland were like this.
"Wear beautiful clothes, neither male nor female."
Zhao Rang added another sentence, but received a fierce look from the woman.
She said to Zhao Rang word for word:
"They are my people."
Zhao Rang took a deep breath and said:
"The Tang family in Shuzhong in the south?"
The woman did not nod or shake her head, but said softly:
"Tang family, Tang Wanqing."
This is her name.
God's will is to pity the quiet grass, and the world will be clear at night. I have to say, this is a very beautiful name, very suitable for a beautiful woman.
But it doesn't suit her at all!
Because she didn't have Wan Qing's warmth at all, instead she was filled with murderous coldness.
"What are you going to do? Kill them all?"
Zhao Rang's tone was a bit teasing.
After saying this, he realized something was wrong.
It wasn't that what he said was wrong, but that he found that he had become just like that woman, becoming indifferent to life...
This is not a good thing. Zhao Rang feels that he must stay away from this woman, even if he has agreed to the three conditions in his heart.
"I only kill people who deserve to die. They don't deserve to die, they just shouldn't come!"
The woman took away the belts of all the people in the box, then covered the box again, and then stabbed the horse pulling the cart hard on the buttocks.
The horse was frightened and neighed repeatedly, then spread its hooves, pulled the cart, and galloped away along the ruts it came from.
After driving away the cart in the backyard of the inn, the woman went to several other yards where carts were parked.
Zhao Rang watched quietly from behind until the last cart left. The woman held a full wide cloth belt and turned to Zhao Rang and said:
"Old horses know the way. They can walk back on their own. But I guess the people in the alley will wake up halfway."
The effectiveness of Turtle Breathing Powder will almost end after we go up the mountain tomorrow.
Zhao Rang couldn't understand the woman's logic.
There is no hesitation in taking action against those who deserve to be damned.
For those who shouldn't come, just send them away.
"Why are you staring at me?"
the woman asked.
Zhao Rang opened his mouth, but said nothing.
"Do you want to ask me which side I am from?"
Zhao Rang nodded.
He became increasingly unclear about what this woman wanted to do.
He obviously has great poisoning skills and can kill people invisible, so why do he have to negotiate terms with himself?
Zhao Rang didn't think that his sword was comparable to her Yinfeng Poison, or even far inferior...
"I'm not on either side, I'm only on my side!"
Women are always decisive in their words.
Zhao Rang could neither say she was right nor wrong.
But every time her words were like a big steamed bun, choking him to death.
In addition to being unable to refute, I couldn't even ask questions.
"Is there poison in these belts?"
Since those people were all members of the Tang family, it was natural that the belt contained poison.
This is the foundation for the Tang family to settle down and survive, and it is also the basis for traveling in the world.
“There is a poison and an antidote.”
The woman said casually.
Zhao Rang was moved, but the woman quickly poured cold water on him.
"There is no antidote to the Yinfeng poison. This antidote is only with Hagoromo."
"Your own poison and you don't have the antidote?"
The woman smiled.
The smile was mixed with loneliness and misery.
"So I just want to be with myself."
Zhao Rang nodded.
Although he didn't know what happened between the woman and the family, he sympathized with the woman's experience.
She has no antidote for her own poison, which means that she will also be poisoned by her own poison!
And if you want to break all this, you must get the antidote.
The prerequisite for the antidote is Hagoromo's life.
Now Zhao Rang suddenly figured out why the woman asked him to kill Yu Yi.
No matter how powerful the poison of the evil wind is, it cannot kill the person holding the antidote.
"I heard that your Tang family never comes out. Why did you send 188 people to the North this time?"
On the way back to the mountain, Zhao Rang kept asking questions.
But as long as issues related to the Tang family were involved, the women kept silent.
"Aren't you on your side?"
Finally, Zhao Rang lost his patience and asked bluntly.
The woman stopped and replied:
"Just because I'm on my side doesn't mean I have to betray them."
Another answer that left Zhao Rang silent.
After that, there was no communication between the two, and they just walked up the mountain together, one behind the other.
The sky is about to break, and a hint of fish-belly white is already showing in the east.
Zhao Rang subconsciously speeded up his pace, trying to get back to his residence before daylight.
Before leaving, he and Qingqing had agreed that he would be back before dawn.
He was worried that if Qingqing didn't see him, she might make a big fuss on the mountain, and it would be difficult to explain to anyone... Zhao Rang still respected her from the bottom of his heart.
But just after walking for a while, he saw that the distance between himself and the woman had grown, and he had to stop and wait.
"Can you walk faster?"
Zhao Rang urged.
The woman glanced at him, stopped, and replied:
"No one cares, why are you walking so fast?"
Then the conversation changed and he continued:
"You go first."
The woman did not tell Zhao Rang where she was going.
Holding the full belt in her arms, she left the main road and went into the forest.
Soon, the back figure and footsteps disappeared.
Zhao Rang was in a daze watching this scene... He actually felt that everything in front of him was illusory!
When he stood at the door of the courtyard, it was already broad daylight.
Taoist priests had come out of the house and were fetching water to wash themselves.
As soon as Zhao Rang walked into the yard, the door directly opposite opened.
In just one night, Qingqing suddenly became much more haggard.
The whole person is as thin as paper, more like catkins and frivolous.
"came back?"
Even so, at the moment when she saw Zhao Rang, Qing Qing still forced herself to cheer up and spoke as softly as possible with her already hoarse voice.
"came back!"
Zhao Rang's heart tightened and he replied lovingly.
