After leaving the Valley of the Four Kings and bidding farewell to Wanruo's mother and daughter, the Ancient Sage rushed to the capital day and night, riding fast.
Fortunately, the BMW under my crotch is accustomed to galloping on the Beihu grassland. As long as the feed tube is full at every inn, it will run forward tirelessly.
This day I came to a town and inquired about the journey ahead. I was told that there would be no resting place for two consecutive days. I happened to be tired and exhausted, so I found an inn to stay, so that the waiter could wait for Zhui Feng and feed him enough food.
It was still early, and when he had nothing to do, Gu Shengchao took out the "Detailed Explanation of Formulas" given to him by Shui Linglong, sat at the table by the window in the guest room, and read through it carefully.
Reviewing the past and learning the new, this book brought him many surprises. Every time he read it, he always had different insights based on his own experiences in practicing.
"Uncle Master, I have made arrangements. If you like peace and quiet, you can stay in the guest rooms in the corridor. The guest rooms of our sisters are all at the entrance of the corridor."
While he was immersed in the joy of reading, Gu Shengchao suddenly heard a familiar voice. He looked out curiously and saw that the speaker was Miao Weiqing from Qixingya.
The two of them were old acquaintances. They had met many times from the time when Gu Shengchao first came to Qixing Cliff to later in Xileng Kingdom, including Luoya Bay.
Ancient Sage Chao was puzzled. The leader of Qixing Cliff was Jin Yangyi, followed by the Xing generation, and the Wei generation below. Miao Weiqing should be called Master. How should he call Master Uncle.
He secretly looked outside and saw that the person talking to Miao Weiqing was Ji Xingfei, the master of Yuheng Peak. Standing next to him was another old acquaintance. It was Zhou Xingyu, the master of Tianshu Peak. Following him were a group of disciples.
Ji Xingfei said with satisfaction: "A Miao is neat, steady and considerate in her work. You sisters of the Wei generation should learn more from her. I have just been promoted to head and need to deal with complicated things. You should think more and help me solve my problems. This King Ciwu invited us Qixingya to participate in the hero meeting because he thinks highly of us, so we must perform well and not be embarrassed."
"Disciple understands." Many disciples of the Wei generation agreed.
The Ancient Sage made a rough count and found that there were about fifteen people in Qixing Cliff.
Ji Xingfei and Zhou Xingyu entered the guest rooms respectively, took a room each, closed the door and meditated separately.
The rest of the people carried large and small bags and large and small boxes and moved into the guest room under Miao Weiqing's arrangement. Their room was quite crowded, with four people living in one room, including Miao Weiqing, who was also squeezed together with three others.
Looking at their hotel arrangements, Gu Shengchao found it funny.
As the leader, Ji Xingfei should take the lead and take good care of every disciple. She should live outside and respond to emergencies at any time. But now that she has gone to the innermost room, she is clean. If something unexpected happens, she will be the last to know and cannot take the lead.
Miao Weiqing was more thoughtful than her and chose to sleep outside so that he could learn about various changes in time.
At dinner time, Miao Weiqing arranged for everyone to guard the luggage, and sent one person from each guest room to go to the inn with her to buy food for dinner, and also sent it to the two junior uncles.
Judging from the arrogance of Ji Xingfei and Zhou Xingyu, it is obvious that they have lived in Qixing Cliff for a long time and are used to bossing around their disciples. I don't know if their skills have improved, but their tempers are quite bad.
Gu Shengchao went to the inn hall to dine alone. There were a few people sitting in the corner drinking and whispering. He recognized Xue Kui and Jia Laosi from Longhu Village among them at a glance.
These two people once robbed an escort halfway, causing Gu Shengchao to escort Liu Ximei alone, which eventually led to them falling in love with each other.
Liao Weikang in the capital killed Zhao Long, the head of Longhu Village, and Xue Kui became their boss. Later he followed the current emperor, the then Ninth Prince, and made great contributions to the Ninth Prince's ascension to the throne at the battle of Luoxian Lake.
Gu Shengchao had little interaction with them. Seeing that they were all concentrating on discussing matters and not noticing him, he sat down with his back to them without disturbing each other.
One of them asked in a low voice: "Brother, are you going to do it tonight? I guess those women's things are worth a lot of money."
Xue Kui lowered his voice and said: "Don't worry, the wilderness ahead is more beneficial to us, just follow closely."
They thought that only their own people could hear it, but they didn't know that the ancient sage next to them had super strong ears and heard it clearly, which made Qixingya sweat.
What's even more surprising is that they have clearly been recruited and given royal rations, so how come they willingly degenerate into bandits?
Gu Shengchao has been away from the capital recently and is confused about many things.
Early on the next morning, everyone in Qixingya prepared to set off.
Ji Xingfei and Zhou Xingyu were the first to get on the horse, watching everyone busy like outsiders. Everyone loaded each horse with luggage of varying sizes and packed it up before getting on the horse and moving forward.
The leader is in front, Miao Weiqing is behind.
It was approaching noon, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the sun was becoming fierce.
Ji Xingfei was sweating profusely and pointed to the small forest nearby and said, "Let's rest there first and wait until it gets cooler before we hit the road."
Everyone ran over happily, and when it was too hot to squeeze together, they spread out and sat in the shade under the tree to rest, or even lay down directly.
Ji Xingfei sat alone under the tree. Some disciples came forward to fan her, and some disciples brought water bags. Everyone was waiting on her, which was very satisfying.
In such a strange place, no one was sent to guard.
"ah!"
It wasn't until some disciples saw many people in the depths of the forest coming to kill them with bright swords that they screamed in terror.
Everyone was unprepared and ran away subconsciously. When they realized something was wrong, they saw that all the luggage had been easily pocketed by the other party.
"A bunch of trash."
Ji Xingfei stared at everyone and gritted her teeth angrily. She picked up the sword and was about to take it back.
More than a dozen people gathered around Longhu Village. Xue Kui held a steel fork in both hands and stopped her: "We brothers are only here to rob money today. You can leave now. If you are stubborn, you can force us to rob someone else." "
After saying that, he burst into laughter, and the people behind him also laughed wildly.
"Presumptuous." Ji Xingfei had never been so angry at Qixingya, and she stabbed with her sword.
Xue Kui's steel fork was powerful and heavy, and its length was far longer than the sword. Before the sword blade could strike, it moved later and arrived first, and the tip of the fork was already in front of Ji Xingfei's eyes.
Ji Xingfei did not have the upper hand in strength, and the sword seemed weak. She dodged and took a few steps forward, trying to get up close and personal with the opponent to take advantage of the short and powerful sword.
Xue Kui was not willing to let her succeed. He took a step back and struck Ji Xingfei on the waist with the steel fork.
Fortunately, she was flexible, twisted and somersaulted to avoid it, and used the strength of her feet to pounce on the opponent again.
Xue Kui had already swung the steel fork and had no time to retract it, so he used the tail end of the steel fork to poke Ji Xingfei, who was attacking.
The back and forth between the two of them seems dangerous, but no one can take advantage.
Upon seeing this, Jia Laosi waved his ghost-headed sword and went to help, but Zhou Xingyu caught up and the two were entangled.
"Go together."
One person from Longhu Village shouted, leading the rest of the people to rush forward.
"oops!"
The man ran a few steps forward, fell down for no apparent reason, and threw the big knife in his hand.
Immediately afterwards, the remaining people in Longhu Village also fell down and lay on the ground.
"Someone, someone plotted against us. He attacked our ankles with stones."
Someone finally woke up and reminded loudly.
After hearing this, Xue Kui and Jia Laosi were not interested in fighting and retreated with a feint.
Ji Xingfei and Zhou Xingyu also returned to their team, watching them with lingering fear.
"What's going on? Is there really a sneak attack?" Xue Kui looked around and couldn't believe it.
"It's true, my ankles are swollen." Someone covered his feet and couldn't stand up.
"Me too."
"Brother, me too."
Everyone said the same thing, which made Xue Kui panic. He clasped his fists and raised his hands toward the depths of the forest, saying, "I don't know which master is coming. I've been waiting for you for a long time, so I hope you'll forgive me."
The surroundings were surprisingly quiet, and everyone was silent, waiting for the expert to respond.
Suddenly, a clear and high-pitched cry came from deep in the woods, followed closely by a pair of colorful phoenixes, flapping their huge wings and slowly flying over the heads of everyone.
"Xue Kui, you are not working for the emperor in the capital, why are you becoming a bandit again? Aren't you afraid of being blamed by the court?" An old voice came faintly, vibrating in the woods, and the source of the voice could not be distinguished.
After hesitating for a moment, Xue Kui said: "The laws of the imperial court are strict. I refused to obey the rules and accidentally injured my superior. I knew that I could not escape the blame, so I escaped. I had no choice but to become a bandit to make a living. Sir, don't worry, I will serve in the imperial court." We also know the laws and regulations, we just grabbed some money and never did anything harmful to nature. If this is not true, I would rather die with five thunderbolts from the sky."
"Well, I'll let you go today. There's no shame in eating by relying on your own strength. You can always find a living." The old voice sounded again.
"Master, please make it clear that we really can't find any work, so we decided to do this." Xue Kui saluted the phoenix floating in the air.
Gentle laughter came from all around: "Your savior is right in front of you, it depends on whether you are willing to do it or not."
"Them?" Xue Kui looked confused at the women in front of him.
"Yes, Qixingya produces famous tea. Although men are not allowed to go up the mountain, transportation also requires a lot of manpower. It is just suitable for people with skills like you to escort. It depends on whether you can do it or not." The old voice was leisurely and reached everyone. Personal ear piercing.
Xue Kui hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands towards Ji Xingfei and said, "I was blind to Mount Tai just now, which offended all the masters. If it is true as this expert said, we are willing to help."
This sudden change made everyone in Qixingya look at each other, fearing that it would bring disaster.
Ji Xingfei stared at Xue Kui and said: "We do have men helping us at Qixing Cliff, but they cannot be counted as my disciples. They are not allowed to go up the mountain for life and can only do coolies and handymen."
"As long as you have work to do and can earn money to support yourself, we won't mind the rest." Xue Kui agreed happily.
Ji Xingfei looked at the huge phoenix in the sky and couldn't make up his mind, and whispered to Zhou Xingyu for a while: "I can promise you to come to my Qixing Cliff to work, but you must be honest and don't have any unreasonable thoughts. If you don't obey your orders, we will kill you at any time." I can fire you."
Xue Kui smiled bitterly: "We have been reduced to this, as long as there is work to do, we will not be picky."
Ji Xingfei took out a pen and paper and wrote a letter, handed it to Xue Kui and said, "Take this letter and wait at the teahouse at the foot of Qixingya Mountain. Someone will tell you what to do."
"Thank you!" Xue Kui had trouble with the letter again: "It's a long way to Qixing Cliff, and we don't even have the money to pay for it. Can you send us some first?"
"Okay, but it needs to be deducted from your future wages slowly." Ji Xingfei asked Miao Weiqing to take out some money and give it to Xue Kui to count as travel expenses.
Xue Kui thanked him profusely and led everyone to leave.
