Even though Yu Xiaowei thought hard about it, she still didn't understand that the Bi sisters knew about this bad Taoist priest's past behavior and still followed him around. They even saw a firmer determination in the eyes of the two sisters.
Perhaps it is because Yu Xiaowei is an outsider and does not understand the dirty-faced and bad Taoist priests she talks about.
To the Bi sisters, a bad Taoist priest is only bad in words. In reality, he has never done anything that crosses the line, let alone raised a finger.
It is human nature to indulge in drinking, sex, and wealth, which just shows that Daozhang Zhao is not the kind of person who pretends to be a saint. His spirit can be bad, his body is absolutely upright, he will not abandon his teammates in times of crisis, he answers questions academically, and he can be said to value love and justice.
These points alone are better than half of the men in the world, not to mention that he is also a handsome man with extremely high Taoism. He is addicted to alcohol, sex and wealth. Otherwise, how would his two sisters have the opportunity to always be by his side?
Of course, the Bi sisters can only make up their own minds.
In the end, Yu Xiaowei did not tell Situ Yao's whereabouts because she was afraid that there would be one more good girl from a good family trapped in the trap of a bad Taoist priest.
At the same time, he lamented that the Bi sisters were completely in crisis, and determined what kind of evil spell the bad Taoist had cast to confuse the minds of the two women.
On the third day, Daochang Zhao once again left the government office and wandered inside and outside the four gates of the southeast, north and west. If the government officials had not greeted the four gatekeepers, the three of them would have been arrested on charges of "idle and suspicious criminals".
Who is a normal person wandering around the city gate every day?
In addition to eating, drinking and wandering around this day, there was still no fruit. I have to praise the exquisite delicacies gathered in the mountains and rivers in the capital, ranging from delicacies from the mountains to fresh fish from the rivers and lakes. They are cooked and fried in dozens of ways, with spicy and spicy seasonings, and soups. There are countless soups and cakes, and there are endless melons and fruits to taste in the garden.
Even Daochang Zhao, who always feasted on food, could not resist eating for three days in a row. He rarely ate two elegant vegetarian meals. He found that those who ate meat and drank alcohol were mostly vulgar men. Vegetarian food was the preference of elegant Confucian scholars. He went to a vegetarian pub twice. I got to know many prodigal young men and distinguished literati in Chengdu.
People at this level naturally understand the policies of Shu. In addition, the appearance of the Bi family sisters attracts much attention, and with his title of 'hero', he is quickly surrounded by the upper class.
The dignitaries learned about the three missing people and spent huge sums of money on the city to help them. As expected, money can make all the difference. In just half a day, they got the news. Miss Situ and his entourage came to Chengdu three days ago to receive the imperial edict, and then The whereabouts are unknown.
It is said that they went south to Shunlongtan to rebuild Situ Jianzhuang. They also said that they had found out that the four great protectors of Tubo were the ones who massacred Situ Jianzhuang. They gathered all the forces in Shu to take revenge.
Director Zhao was not in a hurry to change his plan after receiving the news. He decided to go south to Emei to pay homage to Lao Yue and to take a look at Situ Jianzhuang with Hu Hai.
That night, an uninvited guest came to the wing of the government office, disturbing the night patrol guards. Li Zhanyi and Zhao Zhengli noticed it first and cautiously opened the door. They saw a mysterious man dressed in black sneaking into the courtyard. The man held up the wall and pulled off his veil, revealing a slender face. With a beautiful face, this person was none other than Miss Situ, whom Taoist Master Zhao had been searching for. She looked painful and covered her arms lamely.
Li Zhanyi and Daochang Zhao were stunned for a moment, then looked at each other and helped her into the house. Naturally, it was Li Zhanyi's house.
Yu Xiaowei and others noticed that the small house was crowded with six people. When the outside guards came to inspect, the Bi family sisters came forward to dismiss them and then closed the courtyard door.
Yu Xiaowei and the Bi sisters were not familiar with Situ Yao, but they had heard about it for a long time.
Situ Yao's right arm was seriously injured, blood stains penetrated the black shirt, and there were several scratches on his back that were not deep, and he was covered in dust. As a Jianghu person, this was obvious, and the assassination must have failed.
None of them spoke. Li Zhanyi quickly took out the Emei trauma medicine and expelled the only man, Daozhang Zhao. Daozhang Zhao took the opportunity and went out to avoid it.
After a while, the Bi sisters came out and told Taoist Master Zhao the whole story.
Situ Yao was assassinating the remnants of Wolong Villa outside the city, but her whereabouts were accidentally revealed and she was ambushed by someone. She struggled to break through and then fled into the Chengdu government office to seek refuge with Li Zhanyi.
After a while, Li Zhanyi went out to greet Daochang Zhao into the house and said that Situ Yao had called him by name.
Regarding the acquaintance between the two, she also learned the whole story from Miss Situ.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw a limp beauty lying on her side, her exquisite figure exposed under the soft brocade robe.
Daochang Zhao took the initiative to show concern: "Miss Situ, is the injury considered serious? Is there any risk of internal injury?"
On the side, Yu Xiaowei was as wary of white-faced Taoist priests as she was on guard against wolves. Ever since she investigated Zhao Zhengli's behavior, she classified him as a 'jackal and perverted thief'. This concern was also misinterpreted by her, and she always felt that there was something different in his words. smell.
Situ Yao was not as sensitive as she was about this. She tugged on her brocade robe, and Shui Ling's big eyes were weak and squeezed out into a crescent shape: "Thank you, Taoist Priest, for worrying about it. It's just a skin injury. It bleeds a little, so it looks tired. It'll be fine in two days." ”
Taoist priest Zhao nodded and thought to himself, she is also a woman, but this Miss Situ is much cuter than the flat-chested girl. At least she is sincere and has the heroic spirit of a chivalrous woman. He also asked the owner of the village, Situ Qing, the old master Situ who he had not met before, and the other Jianghu people who had parted ways last time.
It turned out that after the Tubo attacked Situ Jianzhuang at night, the owner Situ Qing was injured and fled. Three days later, he met with the old master Situ in Shudong County, and then returned to the Jianzhuang in a mess.
The next day, Situ Yao and others rushed back to Jianzhuang to learn about the night attack. After repairing Jianzhuang for several days, they decided to secretly gather Jianghu people to destroy the Tubo Jianghu in Shu. Later, they heard that the imperial court was rewarding those who had meritorious service in Jianghu. They took revenge one after another. The fighting has been going on for more than a month, and now it is just coming to an end.
After a while of understanding and concern, Director Zhao began to ask about the scene of rescuing him. Situ Yao told him one by one. Director Zhao did not get any usable clues. After Situ Yao asked, Director Zhao opened his right palm; revealing the black spots, everyone clearly understood that Zhao Zhengli was determined to find Situ Yao. s reason.
Yu Xiaowei was the first to be surprised: "You mean you were poisoned...by poison?"
Regardless of the occasion, the sisters of the Bi family grabbed Taoist Master Zhao's right hand, feeling distressed and remorseful. Their panicked eyes were already filled with tears: "Why didn't Taoist Master tell me and my sisters earlier? They really treat us as outsiders. It's no wonder that Taoist priest was involved in the first place." Chief, if Master Tao cannot survive, neither will my sisters. I must repay the kindness of Master Tao for saving my life!"
Everyone present was touched by it. How deep and profound is this sentiment?
The person involved, Taoist priest Zhao, was amused: "It seems too early to say this at this time. It may be more sincere to wait until I die before I die. I will definitely have a smile on my face."
The two crying sisters laughed angrily at him, picked up their pink fists and smashed them again, making the people present seem redundant.
Li Zhanyi interrupted the ambiguous three people: "The witchcraft of Nanzhao Kingdom is pervasive. The difficulty of eradicating it depends on the level of the poisoner. The old woman who is fighting with you is Sheng Luofeng, the great master of Nanzhao Kingdom's Pseudo Realm. , who spent his whole life fighting to regain the Nanzhao Kingdom. The voodoo skills are far superior to her realm. Normally speaking, you will be the one who will die. As a result, someone forcibly collected the voodoo poison and sealed it in the palm of your hand. Looking at the entire Daqing Kingdom, No one can do it.”
She paused and then added: "Unless several great masters work together..." Then she shook her head: "Even if the great masters work together, they can't be so clean? There is not even a trace left."
The soft boss Situ Yao said: "Could it be a land god?"
Li Zhanyi shook his head in denial: "If it were a terrestrial immortal, he could directly resolve the poison and force it out, so why waste time sealing it? Besides, I have never heard of the existence of terrestrial immortals in the years since I came out of the world."
Several people pondered for a long time with no results. The only reasonable thing is that several great masters work together to seal it. There are only a handful of living great masters in Qing Dynasty, four in the capital, two in Shu, five in the six states in the north, and two in the east and west in the south. Four, these are the only fifteen great masters active in the Daqing Kingdom.
Her master Yun Chan, the old Taoist nun in Shu, didn't know about it, and the head Taoist in Qingcheng didn't even hear about going down the mountain. Even if he went down the mountain and tried his best, he couldn't complete the seal by himself. If he was rescued, he would not abandon the wilderness; Back to the mountain gate, so he was also excluded.
As for Dali and Tubo, it is even less likely to save him. It is a mystery which ones came forward to save him.
Perhaps there was no guarantee that there would be a reclusive great master in Shu who saw that he was working for the benefit of the people, so they worked together to save him.
There was no clue about the matter, so Daozhang Zhao put it aside for the time being, comforting Situ Yao to recover from his injuries, and said goodbye to several people in advance, explaining his plan to go south to Emei in the next few days.
Yu Xiaowei and others were somewhat moved when they learned that Zhao Zhengli had come all the way to pay homage to two solitary graves. It would have been okay if they were relatives and friends who had known each other for several years, but those two were just strangers traveling with him, and he actually There are really not many people in the world who are willing to spend several days burning incense sticks and burning paper money.
The sky is getting dark and the night is getting deeper.
It has passed the end of summer, and there is still a trace of residual heat in the air. Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, Daochang Zhao hopes to go back to the mountain gate on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival to buy the best mooncakes and bring the freshest vegetables. I also want to bring the whitest steamed buns and wine and meat to Senior Brother Yuan Daoren.
As the morning fog broke, Daochang Zhao and the other three said goodbye at the Yamen, and drove the carriage south again.
At that time, Taoist Zhao was tired of eating meat and began to prefer fruits. He prepared half a carriage full of rare fruits, especially the seasonal honeydew melons and snow pears.
The golden oval papaya fruit is popular in the market during the eighth and ninth months of the lunar calendar and is very popular among women.
Ever since the last time the Bi sisters heard a vendor touting papaya as having great effects on women's breasts and beautifying their skin, they ate it for two days and their burps and farts all smelled like papaya.
This time I brought half a basket with me to the south. This move really frightened Daochang Zhao.
However, as a bystander, he has been observing the changes of the two sisters in the past few days, and it seems that the two twin peaks are indeed a bit steeper.
The journey was very long, but fortunately there were fruits and vegetables to entertain him. If he was bored, he would make a few dirty jokes about the Bi sisters. Who would have thought that the two sisters were not afraid at all now, and even made fun of him in turn, going back and forth between teasing and being teased. These days were still going on. It's passable.
We also encountered many strange things along the way. Among them, the carriage was stopped dozens of times, both by those with eyes and those without eyes. Taoist priest Zhao, who did not have eyes, used it to teach the sisters of the Bi family about their sword skills. The ones with eyes recognized When there were three people, Taoist Zhao was not stingy and gave them some advice.
After two days of hurrying, we finally made it more than half way, passing by Situ Jianzhuang, three people came to visit. Unfortunately, the owner of the village was out, and the old master was in retreat, so he left a visiting note and didn't bother him.
It took another half a day to arrive at the old Guandao Inn. More than a month had passed; the inn was already covered with dust, and the corpses of the inn were buried on the hillside next door by the magistrate's yamen. Although there were many people who died in vain, Zhao Taoist still felt a little guilty and lit incense and candles for them. Got some paper money.
Then two lonely graves were found a few miles away. I don't know which Jianghu man later erected an inscription for them, which read, 'Tomb of the bandit-suppressing hero!' ’, and burned some paper money, but the traces were only ten days old.
Daochang Zhao squatted down between the left and right sides of the stone monument, recalling the short and pleasant scene and sighed: "You two should stay there well. Before Qiu Pindao has time to retaliate, let the old witch dance around for a few days. Then I'll just cut her a few more times."
He then talked about some ordinary trivial matters that had happened recently. While talking, he pulled up the short weeds on the grave, then lit incense candles and ignited the paper money. The Bi sisters squatted and burned the money in silence the whole time, and the atmosphere was very dull.
After a long time, it was almost dark before I left.
Taking advantage of the blurry night, I drove the carriage towards the nearest town. Passing by a bamboo forest, I heard the banging, banging and banging sounds of fighting, mixed with the pure roaring and cursing of Shu, "Shao Zhou, you are not a good thing. You colluded with the Tibetan people. I... .You immortal Banban!"
The man behind was not angry either, but his tone could not hide his murderous intent: "Man will die for wealth, and birds will die for food. Who asked you to kill the followers of the Tubo Imperial Preceptor? You were also offered a high reward. Brother, I really can't resist the temptation. ah!"
From a distance, Zhao Zhengli saw several people chasing one person running this way. He saw more and more clearly through the bamboo forest. From the voice to the appearance, he seemed slightly familiar. Zhao Taoist thought for a long time, and finally Biyu reminded him, "It was a provocation in Situ Jianzhuang more than a month ago." Fight Xiaodai!"
The Taoist Master instantly remembered the sharp-tongued man who openly despised him as a 'vase', but today he seemed a little more embarrassed. The people chasing behind him were dressed like Tubo people. Combined with the conversation just now, he got the general idea.
Biyu reminded in a low voice: "Taoist Master, save or not?"
The white-faced Taoist priest smiled and said: "If it were an internal dispute, it would definitely not be involved, but this seems to have escalated to the level of the two countries, so naturally it has to be taken care of."
Biorou said again: "Are you going to fight away? Or kill?"
Daochang Zhao looked at the few people who were less than a hundred meters away with a cold expression: "It's so rampant, of course there will be no one left. The land of Shu is really just a vegetable garden."
Several people who were chasing also saw the three of them, and realized that they were under twenty years old. They immediately relaxed their vigilance, and saw that the two women were quite charming in their prime, so they showed their vulgar looks and laughed loudly.
Only Xiao Dai, who had escaped, felt relieved and hid next to Zhao Zhengli's carriage.
