The first ray of sunshine in the morning shone down.
There are still a few drops of dew on the dead grass beside the road, which occasionally emit a little colorful light under the sunlight.
On the rolling river, there was no longer a ship in sight.
Recently, there have been one strange thing after another in Jiangcheng. First, every family in Jiangcheng died overnight, and the River God Festival, which was supposed to be a joyful event, was filled with funeral processions all over the streets. Now, on the river outside Jiangcheng, big fish that hit boats and eat people appeared again, scaring the people away from the river and the merchants away from sailing.
For a time, there were all kinds of rumors among the people.
Some villains took the opportunity to spread the news that strange things happened in Jiangcheng because of Prince Le's incompetence in virtue, and deceived the people into complaining, in an attempt to remove Prince Le from his position as the powerful vassal king.
There are also timid people who are starting to pack their luggage and prepare to move out of Jiangcheng, or even Jiangzhou, away from the place of right and wrong, so there are some refugees fleeing to other places.
There was also an uproar in the capital. There were all kinds of rumors. Some officials were even secretly instigating their subordinates to impeach Prince Le.
The emperor directly excused himself by saying that he was not feeling well, left the political affairs to the anxious prince, and hid in the harem to recuperate.
Prince Le is also bedridden these days, and has not gotten out of bed for many days. Everything in the house is handled by the housekeeper.
"My lord, take the medicine."
The blind man held the bowl of soup and medicine and handed it to Prince Le's bedside.
"Um……"
Prince Le took the soup and looked at the pitch-black soup. He glanced at the blind man next to him half-jokingly and said:
"Do you think the soup this time is poisonous?"
"It can't be poisonous."
When the blind man heard these words, he first knitted his brows into a knot, and said in a solemn voice:
"The medicine was cooked by me."
"Ha ha……"
Prince Le smiled and handed the decoction in his hand into the darkness. His small black hands took it as he had done countless times before and drank the medicine.
"Ugh~"
The blind man immediately clenched the knife in his hand, and the murderous aura in his body surged out like a boiling pot of water, making the room feel a little cold for a while.
The flames on the brazier nearby swayed several times in response.
He didn't understand how the other party put the poison in under his nose when he had been watching the whole process of decoction.
Although you can't see, it doesn't mean that your heart is blind.
When I was staring at the frying pot, no one even walked past me, let alone wanted to get close to the pot.
"Hiss~"
With a hoarse roar, a pair of small black hands stretched out from the corner of Prince Le's bed, and then a mass of something with an unclear shape approached the blind man little by little.
"Okay, he doesn't mean any harm."
Prince Le looked at the murderous blind man and put his hand into the darkness without caring much, as if he was caressing the head of something squirming in the shadows a few times.
"Your Majesty, I..."
Only when the blind man heard the hissing that sent chills down the spine did he realize his gaffe, and quickly took a few steps back to restrain his murderous intent.
He knew that if the prince hadn't calmed down the killer in the shadow just now, he would have turned into a cold dead body.
That shadow was something he absolutely didn't want to face.
"They have many methods, such as applying poison on the medicine pot or soup bowl in advance, or the poison has been secretly mixed into the medicinal materials prepared before..."
Prince Le smiled, as if he didn't care about his own life or death at all. He was even in the mood to explain to the blind man who almost went berserk why he didn't notice that the soup was poisoned.
"My lord, there won't be a next time. I will check more carefully and won't let them find another chance..."
As the blind man was talking, he saw Prince Le on the bed waving his hand.
"Okay, don't worry about it. Remember what I told you before, we have to follow the current and lure the snake out of the hole. If you check too closely, the other party will not dare to show his face."
Prince Le gently rubbed his fingers on the edge of the medicine bowl and said in a low voice:
"about there……"
…
On the bank of the river, the morning fog has dispersed.
The cold autumn wind pushes the waves on the river forward, sometimes disappearing under the waves, and sometimes raising the white waves.
Zen Master Fu Kong took off a string of Buddhist beads from his right hand. Each oval dark-colored Buddhist beads was engraved with the word "Buddha" in golden handwriting.
He threw the beads toward the river, and each beads flew automatically to where it should go. Only a pale golden silk thread remained in Master Fu Kong's hand:
"Amitabha."
Xia Zhichan took several fist-sized pebbles, carved complex formations with her fingers as pens, and instilled infuriating energy at the same time.
He did not have a magic weapon that could be used directly to perform illusions like Zen Master Fu Kong, so he could only use the stupidest method to carve the formation stones first and then construct the formation.
Plop, plop, plop.
Throw the carved stone into the river and create a few white waves.
Not far from him, a woman in a white Taoist robe was sitting cross-legged, constantly absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and refining it into her true energy.
In the past few days, her energy had been sucked in too much.
Xia Zhichan regarded her as a human-shaped wine gourd. Whenever she ran out of energy, she would come over and grab her and take a swig.
She simply pressed the pulse gate on her wrist, and directly pulled out the hard-refined zhenqi from her body and poured it into her own body.
Jiang Qin was almost depressed.
Xia Zhichan was very happy. The illusion formation in front of her was about to take shape. The energy in her body always disappeared and then replenished, and then disappeared and replenished again.
Buzz——
With a pinch of Dao Jue with one hand, the stones that had been thrown into the river emitted a faint blue light, and then followed the waves to form a huge oval under the river.
"Master, I'm ready here."
"Amitabha."
Zen Master Fu Kong formed the Seal of Living Beings with one hand, and the golden silk thread on the other hand was trembling. The Buddhist beads that were thrown out were floating on the river, reflecting each other with the blue stones underneath.
Those blue stones and golden beads kept flashing, as if they were greeting each other. I don't know how long it took before I heard a bang.
Xia Zhichan and Zen Master Fu Kong withdrew their hands at the same time, and all the lights that had been flashing disappeared into the river.
"Huh, it should be successful."
"Amitabha, that's right."
Now that the fish tank is ready, it's time to lure the disobedient fish into the tank.
"Then let's try the bait I prepared earlier."
Xia Zhichan took out a piece of yellow paper, then took out a brush dipped in cinnabar, and wrote something on it in a quick and easy way.
Finally, he bit his middle finger, leaving a bloody mark on the back of the yellow paper.
He took two steps. He originally wanted to put the things directly on the shore, but he felt it was inappropriate. If the other party didn't take the trick or went straight to the shore, wouldn't the illusory array he and Zen Master Fu Kong set up be in vain?
After thinking about it, I still felt that it would be best to put this thing into the illusion array.
Xia Zhichan first glanced at Zen Master Fukong.
The latter did not speak, just smiled and shook his head, and even deliberately stepped back a few steps, leaving space for Xia Zhichan and Jiang Qin, who was meditating.
Tsk, I don’t know if your eyesight is good or bad.
Xia Zhichan could only sigh secretly, then took two steps to come to Jiang Qin who was meditating, and looked at the woman with her eyes closed, meditating and breathing indifferently.
"Jiang Qin...can you help me deliver this thing to..."
Before he finished speaking, it was obvious that the other party was not moved at all, and looked like he had not heard, so Xia Zhichan stopped talking.
He pursed his lips in embarrassment, then looked back at Zen Master Fu Kong who was far away from the two of them. The latter turned around knowingly and turned his back to the direction of the two of them.
Tsk, this old guy is really...
"Jiang Qin...I...I..."
Xia Zhichan really didn't know what to say. He was obviously very close to the woman, but it seemed that they were separated by a transparent wall and were not in the same world at all.
Alas, in front of women, men can succeed as long as they do three things.
One is persistence; the other is shamelessness.
The third is - insist on being shameless!
Xia Zhichan put his face close to her, so that the tips of their noses were almost touching. He didn't say anything, just stared at the woman's closed eyes.
Smelling the woman's scent made him feel like he was back on the boat after the rain.
Breathe in, breathe out.
The breathing distance is audible, and even the breath of the other person's breath will blow onto the other person's face, causing a somewhat itchy feeling.
The woman's long eyelashes fluttered a few times, but she still didn't open her eyes.
Xia Zhichan also put his hands on the woman's wrists. It was exactly the same as when he absorbed the Qi as usual, but this time the difference was not to suck the Qi out, but to pour it in.
Most of the infuriating energy was Jiang Qin's own, so it was absorbed into it almost without any hindrance, and then there was a little bit more...
Jiang Qin opened her eyes suddenly. She stared into the eyes of the man very close to her. From the black reflection, she could only see her own somewhat surprised look.
She was about to ask a question, but a finger pressed her lips.
Xia Zhichan raised her eyebrows with a smile, then blinked at the surprised woman, and finally withdrew her fingers and pressed them on her lips.
He made a gesture of silence.
Jiang Qin finally suppressed her surprise. Although she tried her best to remain calm, she still couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth slightly.
Now he shares a secret with her.
It was a secret they had shared before anyone knew it. This feeling gave her the illusion of being isolated from the whole world and only staying with the man in front of her.
Buzz!
With a sword cry, the flying sword took the yellow paper and landed in the sky in the middle of the illusion array.
Xia Zhichan flicked his fingers, and the blood mark left on the yellow paper of Feijian in the distance began to seep out little by little, forming lines like spider silk.
Plop——
That was the sound of a big fish breaking through the waves.
Xia Zhichan smiled and made a gesture of retracting the pole with her bare hands:
"The fish are coming!"
