When it was first dawn, Shi Lei, a Qianhu household in Laizhou Prefecture, received a package from the Civil Information Bureau.
The sender's name is "Wang Xiang". Shi Lei didn't know him.
At first he thought it was sent to the wrong place.
But a closer look revealed that his name and address were indeed written on the package, and the sender also paid the most expensive "wine power" and "number fee", requesting the post office to deliver the package to him as soon as possible. Here, nothing can go wrong.
So, with doubts, Shi Lei carefully opened the package.
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After several days of bed rest and medication, Shi Xiaohan's injured soul has basically recovered, and he is now able to get out of bed, walk around, and practice normally.
However, because Shi Lei unilaterally broke her engagement with Gu Xu and burned the betrothal gift sent by Gu Xu, Shi Xiaohan has been having a cold war with his father recently and never takes the initiative to talk to him.
When Shi Lei came to talk to her, she would turn her head away and ignore him.
"Xiaohan, someone sent you a package."
Early this morning, when Xiaohan was sitting at the table eating breakfast, Shi Lei suddenly walked up to her and said to her.
Shi Xiaohan lowered his head and said nothing.
She held her chopsticks tightly and kept stuffing the hot and sour noodles in the bowl into her mouth. Her little mouth was covered with chili pepper and oil stains.
"It's your 'Kunwu Sword'." Shi Lei added.
When he heard the words "Kunwu Dao", the chopsticks in Shi Xiaohan's hand fell on the table with a "snap".
She stood up suddenly and saw a machete that was as red as fire and glowing crimson lying quietly on the coffee table not far away.
She stepped forward in three steps and held the "Kunwu Sword" tightly in her arms.
The petite girl and the heavy sword form a sharp visual contrast.
Shi Xiaohan clearly remembered that on the day Luo Jing City was destroyed, the "Kunwu Sword" was carried by Gu Xu.
She originally thought that after Gu Xu was forced to flee the capital on the "unfounded" charge of treason, the knife would go on a long journey of escape with him and never return to her hands.
"Let 'Kunwu Dao' take my place and stay with him, maybe... he won't be too lonely." This thought came to her mind more than once.
She had already planned to find a new natal magic weapon.
But she never expected that Gu Xu would quietly send the "Kunwu Sword" back to her mansion.
How did he do it?
Has his whereabouts been exposed and discovered by the authorities?
Did he take a big risk?
Shi Xiaohan bit his lip, his eyes lowered, his heart was touched and worried at the same time, his heartstrings suddenly tightened, and his palms became sweaty.
At this moment, someone outside the window suddenly shouted: "Princess Zhaoning is here!"
Hearing this sound, Shi Xiaohan, holding the "Kunwu Sword" in his arms, slipped into his room like a rabbit and locked the door.
She was in a bad mood today and didn't want to deal with this annoying princess at all.
Shi Lei glanced at his daughter's back and sighed helplessly.
Then he walked to the door, bowed his hands respectfully towards a carriage parked at the door and said, "I am a humble minister, Shi Lei, I didn't know that Her Royal Highness the Princess is here in a grand way, and I am not expecting you from afar. I hope Your Highness will forgive you."
After a moment of pause, he added: "My little girl is feeling unwell today and cannot go out to greet her. Please forgive me, Your Highness."
Shi Lei bent very low and his posture was also very low.
He knew that his and his daughter's identities were sensitive now - even though the court was very merciful and did not intend to implicate them, he also needed to be cautious at all times and never give others the leverage.
"You don't need to be polite when you have thousands of households." A soft and pleasant voice came from the carriage.
Later, Princess Xiao Wanjun of Zhaoning, who was simply dressed and graceful, stepped out of the carriage with the help of her maid.
Behind her, there was an old man with gray hair, a bloated figure, and a gilded crutch.
"Shi Qianhu, this is Mr. Mu Yunkai, a divination master worshiped by the royal family," Princess Zhaoning pointed at the old man and introduced to Shi Lei, "We are here today to ask you to help investigate the fugitive Gu Xu. Where to go."
The purpose of the two people's visit was not beyond Shi Lei's expectation.
His eyes became solemn, and he humbly invited the two people into the room.
As soon as he sat down, Mu Yunkai said straight to the point: "I want to know Gu Xu's birth date."
In the wild world, a person's birth date and horoscope are extremely important private information.
It's like a code for destiny.
Some monks who master special spells can know and influence other people's fortunes and even impose curses after learning their birth dates.
Therefore, except for fortune telling and marriage discussions, under normal circumstances, people will not easily disclose their birth and horoscope information.
At this moment, after hearing Mu Yunkai's words, Shi Lei knew that the Da Qi court was testing his loyalty again.
Although the court did not regard him and Shi Xiaohan as Gu Xu's accomplices and punish them together, they were always observing his performance.
Shi Lei sighed softly and answered truthfully: "Xin Chou year, Xin Mao month, Jia Yin day, Ren Shen time."
In order to save his daughter's life, he did not dare not cooperate with the court's investigation. He could only silently hope that Gu Xu would be happy for himself.
Mu Yunkai wrote down this information and then asked: "Do you have Gu Xu's fingerprints here?"
Palmistry is also important personal information in divination and is closely related to a person's numerology and fortune.
Shi Lei fell into deep thought.
The first thing he thought of was Gu Xu's fingerprints on the marriage certificate. But the marriage certificate had been thrown into the furnace and burned to ashes.
Then he thought that after Shi Xiaohan gave the elixir workshop to Gu Xu as a birthday gift without permission, the two of them later made up a formal industrial delivery agreement - on that document, Gu Xu also left his hand print.
Shi Lei was hesitant whether to hand over the document honestly as requested by the other party.
His intuition told him that the more information this person named Mu Yunkai knew, the more dangerous Gu Xu's situation would be.
However, just when he was hesitating, Mu Yunkai's lazy eyes suddenly became sharp, as if he could see through his mind and get a glimpse of his thoughts.
Shi Lei had no choice but to wave to the servant in the room and ordered: "Go to the first drawer of my desk and get the delivery agreement for the elixir workshop."
The servant immediately did so.
After a while, Mu Yunkai took the agreement from the servant's hand, saw the red fingerprints on the paper, and nodded with satisfaction.
He thought for a while and then asked: "By the way, do you still have the items left by Gu Xu here?"
Shi Lei had given up struggling.
He asked his servant to get a "Wind Talisman" - it was the one that Gu Xu affixed to Shi Xiaohan on the day Luo Jing City was destroyed.
Mu Yunkai took out a writing brush, dipped it in ink, squatted down, and drew a circular, complex formation on the ground. He placed the agreement and the "Wind Rune Talisman" at both ends of the formation.
Then he began to chant a mantra under his breath.
As the formation glowed with silver light, the color of Mu Yunkai's pupils became lighter and lighter, becoming gradually more transparent.
His voice also became disembodied, giving people the feeling of auditory hallucinations.
After reciting a spell, his black eyes had disappeared, and there was only a pale color in his eyes.
"Shi Qianhu, I have begun to search for Gu Xu in the long river of destiny," Mu Yunkai raised his head slightly and said to Shi Lei, "I need you to tell me as much information about Gu Xu as possible, such as his character, his His preferences, his living habits... This way I can clear away the fog of fate faster."
"Gu Xu, he——"
"——Shi Qianhu, would it be convenient to invite your daughter to come and talk?" Shi Lei was about to speak when Princess Zhaoning next to him suddenly interrupted, "I think in the entire Luojing city, she knows Gu Xu the best. She is the only person who deserves it.”
Shi Lei immediately stood up, bowed to the princess and said, "I'm sorry, Your Highness, my daughter's soul was injured on the day Luojing City was destroyed. She has not recovered yet. It is really inconvenient for her to come out to meet guests."
Shi Lei didn't dare or didn't want Shi Xiaohan to appear in such an occasion.
On the one hand, he was afraid that she would get into trouble by saying some irrational and silly things in front of the princess;
On the other hand, things like today were too cruel for Shi Xiaohan - he should be the villain himself.
After hearing what he said, Princess Zhaoning said lightly, "It doesn't matter" and didn't force it anymore.
Shi Lei cleared his throat and said slowly: "As far as I know, Gu Xu has always been a very hard-working and self-disciplined person... My daughter once told me that when he was in Yishui County, he was not practicing every day , just doing tasks, almost never leaving time for myself to rest...
"...The reason why he is so desperate is because he is born with deficiencies and has a defect in his bones. If he cannot cultivate to the realm of a saint before the age of thirty, he will die young...
“... He is well-read and has an excellent memory. He can accurately remember the contents of all the books he has read...
"...He eats a light diet and does not drink alcohol...My daughter said that his favorite food is almond tofu from the kitchen of Yishui Exorcism Department Yamen...
"..."
Shi Lei silently told everything he knew about Gu Xu.
Princess Zhaoning listened quietly.
In her mind, Gu Xu's image became more complete and more distinct.
When she heard that Gu Xu was "congenitally deficient and defective," she inadvertently clenched her fists with her hands flat on her knees.
She used to admire his brilliance.
At this moment, she sympathized with him for his bad luck and poor fortune.
"In this case, why did Gu Xu choose to rebel and treason?" Princess Zhaoning once again asked this question in her mind, "If this incident had not happened, he would still be the favored son of heaven and would be favored by everyone." With the imperial court's efforts in training, it has rich resources for cultivation... It is not impossible to become a saint before the age of thirty.
"But now, he has become a prisoner of the imperial court and has lost his previous channels for obtaining resources... Even if he escapes to Youzhou and successfully joins Zhao Changying, he may not be able to obtain more cultivation resources than before... "
The more she thought about it, the more confused she became.
Mu Yunkai sat cross-legged beside the formation, muttering a spell.
His consciousness had already drifted to the long river of mist shrouded in mist.
But he searched and searched, but never found any trace of Gu Xu - it was as if this person did not exist in the world at all.
Time flies.
The sun rises from the eastern horizon, climbing higher and higher.
In the courtyard of the Shi family's residence, a few rays of golden sunlight also shone diagonally. As if it had legs, it moved and rotated silently in the courtyard, flowing over the bluestone steps, passing over the carved window lattice, and passing in front of the girl's quiet boudoir.
Several hours passed quietly like this.
In the afternoon, as the sun gradually shifted to the west, the silver light from the formation on the ground suddenly became extraordinarily bright without warning, overshadowing the sunlight shining into the room, making everyone present unable to open their eyes.
Mu Yunkai suddenly stood up excitedly.
"I see it! I finally see it!" he shouted loudly. Looking at his excited expression, it was as if he had solved a century-old problem in the spiritual world.
However, before he finished speaking, his expression suddenly turned painful and ferocious.
His face turned pale, then flushed, and finally purple. His facial features were twisted into a ball, the deep wrinkles turned into twisted lines, and the muscles on his face were twitching uncontrollably.
"ah--"
As he let out a shrill scream, his eyes suddenly sunk deeply, and bright red blood flowed out of his eyes like a stream.
He covered his eyes and fell to his knees in pain.
"Gu Xu... Gu Xu went to Jingxing..." he said in a trembling voice.
At the cost of his eyes, Mu Yunkai finally found the answer he wanted in the long river of destiny.
"Jingxing..."
After hearing his words, Princess Zhaoning did not waste a moment and immediately used the "message jade talisman" she carried on her body to issue new orders to the officials who were searching for Gu Xu.
Shi Lei looked at his blind eyes, silent and with mixed emotions.
Since recognizing the limitations of his qualifications and abilities, Shi Lei has long stopped pursuing further career advancement. His daughter's safety and happiness are the top priority in his heart.
When his daughter got engaged, he did not hesitate to spend three thousand merit to ask Luo Sishou about Gu Xu's future, fearing that Gu Xu would die young and make his precious daughter a widow.
After Gu Xu became a wanted criminal, he immediately made the decision to "draw a clear line, cooperate with the court, sacrifice Gu Xu, and save his daughter", for fear that the court would regard Shi Xiaohan as Gu Xu's accomplice and punish him together.
In his opinion, there is a high probability that this matter will end with Gu Xu being arrested. There is a small probability that Gu Xu will escape from the country and wander around the world from then on, never returning home.
Shi Xiaohan will gradually forget this sentimental relationship as time goes by, then form a new family and live a plain and happy life.
But now he found that he had underestimated both Gu Xu's ability and the determination of the Qi court.
"Perhaps, another bloody storm is coming."
Shi Lei looked at the slowly moving sunlight by the window and let out a long sigh.
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at the same time.
After several hours of non-stop driving, Gu Xu finally arrived near Jingxing before dark.
Jingxing is the fifth of the eight mountains in Taihang. It is located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain and controls the Taihang Fortress. There is an important post road connecting Yan and Jin within its territory. It is named because of its terrain.
Ancient books say: "The four sides are high and the center is as deep as a well and like the edge of a stove, so it is called the edge of a well."
Gu Xu did not rush to cross Jingxing, but hid in a dark forest, took off the mask on his face, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
Due to his rest adjustment last night, he was interrupted by Sima Chang and the "Reggae".
If you don't take off the mask, it will most likely cause side effects.
But as soon as he took off the mask, Gu Xu faintly felt an invisible gaze falling on his body, giving him a feeling of needle-like discomfort.
But there was no one in the forest.
Gu Xu looked around and couldn't find any trace of the peeping person.
Just as he was doubting, the surface of the "astrolabe" in his hand suddenly lit up with a dazzling silver light, and then he heard a painful scream.
The gaze spying on him disappeared instantly, as if it had never existed.
Gu Xu frowned slightly.
Out of caution, he put the mask back on his face.
However, at this moment, a loud voice sounded behind him:
"My official, Qianhu Que Juchang, Liaozhou Prefecture, is here to arrest important criminals of the imperial court. Take out your 'road guide' for inspection immediately! If you dare to conceal it, you will be treated as the same crime!"
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