Shi Tieqiao said loudly: "Who says it's not the case? Your aunt objected fiercely at that time, saying that Nie Hengcheng must be prepared for Netherworld Huangdao to be launched at this time - but how could Yin Dai listen to her!"
"Then in order to set an example, Yin Dai sent out all seven of his disciples?" Cai Zhao curled his lips.
Shi Tieqiao said angrily: "Not bad."
"So that's it." Mu Qingyan used a branch to sweep the dust around his feet. When he raised his head, he received Cai Zhao's look, so he casually found a topic, "I wonder who were the people who attacked Netherworld Huangdao that year? "
"Almost all the younger generation went." Shi Tieqiao thought for a while, "Didn't Senior Cheng Hao and Senior Wang Dingchuan among the three elders of Qingque die before when they captured Elder Kaiyang alive, so the Qingque Sect has the most people going. ; I also went to Peiqiong Villa and Guangtianmen a lot, because the old leaders of the two factions were seriously injured by Nie Hengcheng..."
Cai Zhao interrupted: "Did you get injured because you were trying to test Nie Hengcheng's magic power?"
Shi Tieqiao answered yes, and then said: "Of course your aunt is taking the lead in Luoyinggu, along with me and other brothers; Mr. Yang Yi from Siqi Sect detained his son for a long time and then sent his son out; Taichu Guan is Wang Yuanjing. Leader, alas, everyone took pity on their heavy casualties and specially arranged for them to stay behind."
He thought hard, "What about those who didn't go that time... Well, brother Yunke and Xiaochun were injured and couldn't go, my second brother chased his sweetheart and didn't come back, and Qiu Yuanfeng was still injured in the battle at Yangding Lushan. , I didn’t go either, the rest...I can’t remember..."
The smoke above the brick kiln turned thick and black. Cai Zhao knew that Guo Zigui's remains were burned. She was afraid that Shi Tieqiao would be sad after seeing this, so she asked again, "They are all rushing into the lair. Nie Hengcheng will definitely use all his killer moves. We will be killed or injured." Is it great?"
"Actually, it's not very powerful, because Nie Hengcheng was in retreat at the time." Shi Tieqiao laughed, "After entering the Netherworld, our troops were divided... Well, I don't know how many groups we were divided into. We brothers followed Sister Pingshu and charged I was at the front, killing them aimlessly for a while, and then I came back."
"Zigui is not so lucky." He sighed. "His senior brother Feng Yuantu also takes good care of him and arranges for him to follow the people from Taichu Temple behind. He can run away as soon as the situation is bad. Who knows that they will fight I got lost as I hit it, and crashed into a dark mountain col to the west. There were towering stalagmites there, caves and stone walls everywhere, like a maze, and there were stone carvings of lions and leopards on the ground with teeth and claws, like ghosts from hell. . Zigui was frightened and frightened, so he was separated from the people in Taichu Temple. Feng Yuantu also died in that battle. He was an honest man, what a pity."
"Well, after thinking about it, Zi Hui might as well have followed us. Although we were at the forefront, when Pingshu girl flashed her bright sun sword and stood in the wind with such power, all the gods and ghosts would retreat! Unless Nie Hengcheng came out in person, Otherwise, no one in the Demon Cult can be her enemy! We just have to follow and charge, it’s so fun, it’s so damn fun!”
Mentioning the passionate past, Shi Tieqiao held his head high and his eyes were filled with light, "Lu Chengnan later said that he specially arranged for Zhao Tianba and Han Yisu to avoid our route, for fear that his senior brother would lose his life, haha, hahahaha!"
As a result, when he raised his head, Shi Tieqiao saw the thick black smoke above the brick kiln, and his mood suddenly changed.
He cried: "The two elders of the Guo family are very good people. When our brothers were young, we were hunted down by our enemies and fled to Jiangdong. The Guo family took us in. Although Zigui acted like a fool, he was kind-hearted since he was a child. He knew that our brother had suffered internal injuries. I wish I could buy up all the ginseng and tiger gall on the market."
"He has a weak temperament and is not suitable for learning martial arts at all. He does not like to fight and kill. He should have been a registered disciple at Peiqiong Villa and lived idle. Inexplicably, he became a closed disciple of the first sect leader in the world. In full view of everyone, he could not stay away from the matter."
"When Sister Pingshu rescued Zi Gui, he was so tortured that he was reduced to human form - what's wrong with surrendering or signing a surrender letter? He didn't harm anyone! Not everyone in the world is a big brother. What a hero! I guess Yin Dai also knew that Zi Gui was not dead, so he deliberately said, 'Anyone under the Qingque sect who shows any signs of weakness and surrenders to the enemy will be punished by death'!"
"He was hoping that Zi Gui would kill himself outside as soon as possible, so as not to damage his reputation! Zi Gui had a family and could not go back. Zi Gui, Zi Gui, hoped that Zi Gui would return soon. Poor Guo family elders, they died of illness soon after. .”
The more Shi Tieqiao thought about it, the sadder he became. One moment he cursed Yin Dai for being such an old bastard, and the other moment he pitied the three members of the Guo family.
Cai Zhao felt sad when he heard this and started crying too.
Mu Qingyan knew that Yin Dai's acceptance of Guo Zi as a disciple was not a simple matter, but an internal game within Beichen——
Yin Dai was indeed shrewd and capable, and his cultivation level ranked among the six sects. At that time, the Qingque Sect was the dominant family, the Song family of the Guangtian Sect was his in-laws, Cang Huanzi, the head of Taichu Temple, was his best friend, and Yang Yi of the Siqi Sect was his close friend. Beichen's six sects have begun to merge.
He even allowed his second daughter to get close to Zhou Zhizhen, the only son of the Zhou family, intentionally or unintentionally. However, every time he mentioned words such as "the children should be good to each other" at the banquet, Mr. Zhou always mumbled it.
Later, the parents of Cai Pingshu and his brother died. Yin Dai originally wanted to adopt them as the first sect master. Unexpectedly, Master Zhou relied on a marriage letter written by Cai Laogu in public before his death to make the previous verbal agreement a reality. , and then took the younger brother away first, and Yin Dai’s plan failed.
But Yin Dai was not a person who was willing to give up. Soon he went to Jiangdong in person and with great fanfare, he accepted Guo Zi as a closed disciple.
Master Zhou did not dare to confront him tit for tat.
Mu Qingyan could suddenly understand the Cai family's feelings for the Zhou family. He thought about how Cai Pingshu, with his talent and temperament, would have been treated if he had not been the first to take the initiative.
Of course, he would never admit that because Zhou Yuqi and Cai Zhao's marriage was ruined, he became tolerant of the Zhou family.
The fire in the brick kiln burned for two full hours, from dawn to midday.
After the kiln was opened, the eldest son of Shi led the people to carry out the refined iron stretcher. Shi Tieqiao personally collected the ashes with tears in his eyes, and finally put them into a jade-inlaid rosewood box and handed them to Mu and Cai.
"Zhaozhao, say hello to your parents for me, and then offer your aunt a stick of incense for me. Tell her that we are living a good life in Qiyin Village." Shi Tieqiaohu's eyes filled with tears, "I will remember her words, and my children and grandchildren will I have children and grandchildren, and after a hundred years I will let them dig up the gold and secret books, and let them decide whether to stay or go out - then I will go underground to talk to her about old times with my brothers."
Cai Zhao solemnly agreed.
After drinking a glass of medicinal wine, Cai Zhao and Mu Qingyan fell asleep.
When they woke up again, they found that they were in the blacksmith shop in Taohua Village. The door was closed. There was actually a cooked dinner on the table. Guo Zigui's long sword, Ning Xiaofeng's dowry, and The urn in the baggage.
After opening the door and going out, the villagers asked, "Why did the Qiao couple leave so quickly? Are you relatives of his family? Who gave the shop to them?" and so on.
Mu and Cai knew that the young couple from the Shi family had gone into hiding again. They didn't know where they would open a blacksmith shop next time, or they would use the skills of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Shi family to open a fragrant roasted seed shop.
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The next chapter will reveal a big mystery.
Chapter 109
After dinner, under the afterglow of the setting sun, Mu and Cai, dressed in coarse cloth, sat at the door to enjoy the cool air like ordinary villagers.
One is holding a handful of sparkling dry mugwort to drive away mosquitoes, and the other is shaking a big broken-leaf cattail fan that makes a clanging sound. They only need a teapot or melon seeds, and they look like a pair of old country men and women.
Mu Qingyan suggested that the two of them think through their thoughts and sort out what they had heard at Shitie Woodcutter that day and night.
Cai Zhao also had this intention.
"We use the purple jade golden sunflower as a clue to calculate." Mu Qingyan used a branch to pull out a palm-sized stone from his feet and replaced the purple jade golden sunflower.
Cai Zhao nodded, "The first time I heard about the whereabouts of the Purple Jade Golden Sunflower, it was because Shi Erxia was hit by the cold air of the netherworld. My aunt knew from somewhere that the Purple Jade Golden Sunflower could cure this injury, so she stole it from the demon sect's treasure house. ." She used a big cattail fan to move the stone next to a bluestone board - the stone represented the Purple Jade Golden Sunflower, and the bluestone board represented Shi Erxia.
"The key to this matter is -" she continued, "Who told my aunt that Purple Jade Golden Sunflower can cure the coldness of the netherworld? And, who can find the so-called useless Purple Jade Golden Sunflower from the Man Man Treasure House?"
"There is another key point." Mu Qingyan added, "Your aunt was able to steal the Purple Jade Golden Sunflower and return it without anyone noticing. This shows that Nie Hengcheng has not yet used the Purple Jade Golden Sunflower."
He pulled the stone down a few inches, and the tip of the branch scratched the word 'treasure' on the ground. "At this time, the Purple Jade Golden Sunflower is still in my teaching's treasure house. The time is one and a half years before Lu Chengnan ran at night. .”
Cai Zhao thought for a while, "I think Nie Hengcheng must have started practicing magic skills even if he didn't use Purple Jade Golden Sunflower at that time. Because Uncle Lei told me that not long after Shi Erxia was hit by the cold energy of the netherworld and consulted him, , Yin Dai was repulsed by Nie Hengcheng within a hundred moves."
Mu Qingyan raised his eyebrows: "Is Yin Dai injured?"
"No, it's just that my clothes are scratched." Cai Zhao said.
Mu Qingyan: "Yin Dai was able to escape completely. It can be seen that Nie Hengcheng was still practicing magic skills for the first time at this time." Next to the stones on the ground and the word "Ku", he used a branch to mark "Nie, Chu, Gong" Three words.
Cai Zhao agreed: "Uncle Lei said that Yin Dai repeatedly asked him if there was any magic medicine that could increase his power in a short period of time. Uncle Lei said that there was, but the benefits outweighed the harm and it was useless to use it. So Yin Dai guessed that Nie Hengcheng had practiced a powerful technique."
"Not only did he become suspicious, but also Master Zhou and Master Song became suspicious, so they each came up with strange tricks." Mu Qingyan said, "Yin Dai's strange trick was to join forces with his senior brother Cheng Hao and his junior brother Wang Dingchuan to lay a dragnet. Capture elder Kaiyang, Nie Hengcheng’s confidant alive, with the intention of slowly extracting a confession.”
"But at this time, Nie Hengcheng has not started to hunt the world's masters, so there is no need for the purple jade golden sunflower." He said, "What happened after that was that Wu Yuanying was captured in Lushan, Cang Huanzi and Elder Yaoguang died together, Kaiyang The elder escaped from prison and died, and Cang Qiongzi broke his legs..."
Cai Zhao continued: "Then Yin Dai couldn't lose face and ordered all the elites of the six factions to attack Netherworld Huangdao. Unexpectedly, not only did he lose his eldest disciple Feng Yuantu, but he also lost his junior disciple Guo Zigui. Now it seems that it is not necessarily because he can't lose face, but also because of his loss of face. Maybe she wanted to explore the magic power - my aunt was fighting hard at the front, but she didn't hear where Yin Dai was, so she might have touched somewhere."
"No matter where I touch, I always find nothing." Mu Qingyan sneered, "Let's move on to the purple jade golden sunflower. When did Nie Hengcheng start using the purple jade golden sunflower... half a year ago."
"half year ago!"
The two blurted out at the same time, then looked at each other and smiled.
"According to what Lu Chengnan told my aunt and others," Cai Zhao recalled with a tilt of his head, "he should have noticed that his master's skill had greatly increased a long time ago, but it was not until half a year ago that he felt something was wrong - because at this time Nie Hengcheng started to take advantage of the master. "
"At this time, the purple jade golden sunflower fell into Nie Hengcheng's hands." Mu Qingyan continued to pull the stone on the ground. After moving it down two inches, he drew the word 'Nie, suck' next to the stone.
He added: "After that, Nie Hengcheng went on a killing spree of masters from all over the world. Day after day, he became more and more intensified - everyone accused him of being ruthless and cruel, but in fact he was doing it to practice magic."
"What kind of kung fu is this? It's so evil!" Cai Zhao lowered his mouth in disgust.
"I've almost guessed it." Mu Qingyan poked the word 'Nie' with a branch: "Zhao Zhao, do you remember Duan Jiuxiu and Chen Fuguang? Why did they go to the snow ridge to collect saliva."
Cai Zhao's eyes lit up: ""Purple Heart Sutra"?! Well, isn't that the Kung Fu passed down by your ancestors of the Mu family? Your father also said that you can't practice it, and it will be very harmful if you practice it!"
Mu Qingyan said calmly: "It is probably Nie Hengcheng who came up with the method of practicing the Purple Heart Sutra."
"Is there any way to suck other people's elixirs and essences, and eventually turn into a semi-madman?" Cai Zhao couldn't believe it.
Mu Qingyan pursed his lips: "At least he didn't need to absorb the essence of the alchemy in the beginning of practice, and even the practice was smooth at the beginning. He only needed a little saliva of the Snow Lindra Beast as a primer, and his skills could be greatly increased in a short time. .”
Cai Zhao suddenly realized: "That's why he gave the preliminary mental method and a small bottle of saliva to Chen Shu to make up for the fact that his Five Poison Palms were broken. Unexpectedly, Chen Shu loved his brother so much that he was intercepted by the Zhou family's children before he started practicing. killed."
——Unexpectedly, this small episode indirectly led to the massacre of Qian Xueshen's family, and even set off a bloody revenge more than ten years later.
"Before he went mad, Nie Hengcheng had always been a talented and strategic hero. He cherished his disciples and knew people well." Mu Qingyan looked as usual, "Lu Chengnan endured it for half a year, but couldn't bear it anymore, and finally stole the purple jade gold Kwai, running at night."
"Without Ziyu Jinkui and Lu Chengnan by his side, Nie Hengcheng acted more and more crazily." Cai Zhaodao, "My aunt said that the reason why she was able to stop Nie Hengcheng alone in Tushan was because He was suspicious and didn't believe anyone. In the end, he even became suspicious of his closest disciples - it seems that Lu Chengnan's escape had a big impact on him."
"Lu Chengnan is indeed a hero of his generation." Mu Qingyan rarely says good things about people.
A group of country children were chasing and playing in front of them, scratching each other with dogtail grass, and the clear laughter could not be heard.
Cai Zhao frowned: "There are still many unclear things - who told my aunt Ziyu Jinkui?"
Mu Qingyan solemnly said: "There is a person who not only knows the many uses of Purple Jade Golden Sunflower, but also knows its ins and outs. Even people in this sect may not be very clear about these many trivial details. Who is this person? ." - There is a person who is always in the fog, but they can never touch it.
"Also, who attacked your father? Who was the culprit behind the massacre of the Chang family? Most importantly, who is my aunt's sweetheart!" Cai Zhao added.
Mu Qingyan burst out laughing: "Why are you still thinking about this? Didn't your master say that that person has already asked your aunt to 'solve' him? There is a high probability that he is no longer alive."
"Then we have to know who he is." Cai Zhao was annoyed, and suddenly remembered something, "Hey, I want to ask you something."
"I won't say hello." Mu Qingyan said with a straight face.
"Painted Skin Demon?"
Mu Qingyan stood up.
Cai Zhao quickly grabbed him, leaned over with a smile, and said sweetly: "Brother."
Mu Qingyan sighed: "Let's stop pretending to be brothers and sisters in the future. No matter whether it's Xueling or Suchuan, no one will believe it - what are you asking?"
Cai Zhao was a little hesitant: "Your Majesty, have you never liked anyone in your life? I mean I really like him."
Mu Qingyan didn't expect the girl to ask this, "...maybe. But I was sick at the time and didn't see anyone."
He hesitated a little, "That was when my father had just brought me back to Huang Laofeng. I shaved my head, bathed, ate, and basked in the sun... Then I fell ill and the high fever refused to go away."
Cai Zhao sighed slightly. Children who are used to suffering in the dark will not adapt to the light at first sight.
"One night, I heard someone talking outside. It was my father and a woman with a strange voice. When I woke up in a daze, the woman was gone, and my father was still sitting outside, with that look on his face..." Mu Qingyan frowned. Between the eyebrows, the eyes are meditating.
——The sky is about to break outside the window, and a clear light falls in the quiet room.
Mu Zhengming was sitting alone behind the desk, facing an empty seat that was still warm. His expression seemed to be one of endless longing, longing, joy, worry, and uneasiness.
Mu Qingyan only recently understood this delicate and delicate emotion.
Cai Zhao seemed to understand, "What happens next?"
"Nothing happened after that. The woman never came again." Mu Qingyan looked gloomy. "My father said that was the first time they met and they would never see each other again. I think he always wanted to find the woman, but because of me It didn’t happen.”
Cai Zhao cheered, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't pull everything on yourself. Your father didn't make it before you were born. It's good that your father didn't make it, otherwise how could my aunt rescue Master Guo?"
Mu Qingyan said with a smile: "Do you think it was because of my father's help that Heroine Cai rescued Guo Zigui?"
