A melodious voice sounded, "Old man, Chen Yixin is being polite."
The old woman was startled, looked up and down, and then nodded and said: "Everyone says that the daughter of the great general protecting the country has the appearance of a flower shy of the moon, a fish sinking like a geese, and when I see her today, she is truly worthy of her reputation."
When Chen Yixin heard this, she smiled sweetly and said, "I'm exaggerating, old man. This is just a compliment from friends in the world, making you laugh."
The old woman said: "Yes, not only is she beautiful, but she is also very low-key and humble. Chen Xiaotian is indeed lucky to have a daughter like you. It's a pity that this blessing is coming to an end soon!"
"Oh?" Chen Yixin asked, "What do you think the old man said?"
The old woman sneered: "You are obviously pretending to be confused because you understand! Don't you know why we are here?"
Chen Yixin said: "Let me ask you too, do you know what you are doing now?!"
The old woman laughed and said, "You little girl, are you trying to interrogate me?"
Chen Yixin smiled and said: "Don't worry, someone will come to interrogate you soon, so I don't need to worry about this matter."
When the old woman heard this, she became furious. She gently put down the baggage in her hands, picked up the two Liuye knives, pointed them with the tips of the knives and said: "Stop talking nonsense, come on, come on, let me learn Miss Chen's methods. "
Chen Yixin glanced at Gao Renyi who was lying on the ground and passed out, and thought to herself: "Although Gao Renyi is not a famous swordsman in the world, nor does he have any unpredictable martial arts, there are more than 500 guards in the General's Mansion. Except for Ma DeSheng, no one was his opponent anymore. Just now I was following from a distance. Although I couldn't see clearly what moves the old woman used, she captured Gao Renyi with just one move. Such skill was considered inferior. Yin Nuxia and my father are also far ahead of me and my brother. If you want to defeat her, you can only outsmart her, not fight head-on."
Seeing Chen Yixin smiling and silent, the old woman thought to herself: "This little girl is so cunning and cunning, it's not easy to get entangled with her here. Now that the second sister has detonated the thunder bomb, our mission has been completed. Wait a moment I will kill the man named Ma and return to His Highness King Qi."
Thinking of this, he sneered and said: "Sister Chen, if you don't want to teach me, the old woman has important things to do, so I won't accompany you!" After saying that, he picked up the baggage on the ground with his toes, put it in his hand, turned around and left.
Chen Yixin was stunned. She didn't expect that the old woman had been ready to fight to the death a moment ago, but she left in the blink of an eye. But just when she was stunned, a cold light suddenly flashed in front of her eyes. Chen Yixin thought to herself that it was not good. She saw a caltrop flying straight towards the woodshed. It was too late to draw her sword to block it.
Ma Desheng was lying upright in the woodshed. The iron caltrops were extremely fast and aimed at his head. When Chen Yixin saw this, she had no choice but to close her eyes, not wanting to see Ma Desheng die tragically in front of her eyes.
Hearing a "bang" sound, Chen Yixin became suspicious, "Why is this sound?" She slowly opened her eyes with a little doubt, and when she looked again, she saw that the iron caltrops had fallen at the door of the woodshed, and there was a sleeve arrow on the ground not far away. .
Chen Yixin was startled and quickly drew out her sword and looked around. Just listen to a gentle and clear voice: "Miss Chen, don't be nervous, the slave family is here to help you."
Chen Yixin looked up, and a slim and petite Miao girl came into view. The person who came was none other than Baozhuhua, the messenger from Southern Xinjiang.
On that day, Chen Xiaotian returned the intact Suzaku Pearl, the treasure of the southern Xinjiang state, to Zhao. Baozhuhua did not dare to neglect it after taking over, and immediately set off the next day to escort the Suzaku Pearl back to southern Xinjiang. When Old Man Tianqi heard the news, he originally wanted to send someone to intercept and snatch the Suzaku Pearl back. Unexpectedly, Jing Nian stood up and strongly opposed it, and gave two reasons. First, King Qi and King Chiyue were allies, and the two sides had reached a consensus to send troops to attack Xia State together. Now if we rashly send someone to grab the Vermillion Bird Pearl, it goes without saying that if we succeed, if we fail, King Chiyue is not a good man. Not only will the alliance be in vain, but the Southern Miao people may even turn against Chen Xiaotian. Join forces to deal with King Qi. Therefore, the risk of robbing the Vermilion Bird Pearl is high, the benefits are small, and the gain outweighs the loss. Second, the decisive battle in the arena is imminent, and our own manpower is already insufficient. If we send some minions there, they will definitely not be the opponents of Baozhuhua and Sangua. Sending Hedong Shuangxiong or Shi Tianyu will greatly damage our own strength, so it is net. Nian suggested not to act rashly, but to report the matter to King Qi first and then make a long-term plan.
Although the old man Tianqi and Jing Nian are inseparable from each other, they can clearly distinguish between public and private matters. He knows that Jing Nian is right. Now that the war is coming, he really shouldn't care about one thing at the expense of the other. So he adopted Jing Nian's suggestion and allowed Bao Zhuhua and others to send the Suzaku Pearl back to southern Xinjiang.
But what they didn't know was that when Baozhuhua returned to southern Xinjiang, he not only brought back the Suzaku Pearl, but also brought back an autographed letter from the leader of Daxia, the content of which was unknown even to Chen Xiaotian. After King Chiyue read the letter, he ordered Bao Zhuhua to return to Jinling with his reply the next day.
Although Southern Xinjiang is not far from Jinling, it is still more than twenty days' journey away. Baozhuhua and Sangua hurriedly and slowly arrived at Jinling City at dusk today. After entering the city, several people found an inn to stay next to the General's Mansion. They planned to have a good rest tonight and go to the General's Mansion to meet Chen Xiaotian early tomorrow morning. Who expected that just as they fell asleep, they heard a loud noise, and then The ground shook violently.
Bao Zhuhua hurriedly turned over and sat up, rushed out of the guest room and saw that the fire in the general's mansion was soaring into the sky, illuminating the entire west side of Jinling City as bright as day. At this time, San Gua also ran over. Seeing this scene, Jin Yu Gua asked: "What is Chen Xiaotian doing?! Is he holding a bonfire party to welcome us?"
Yinyu Gua said: "Really? No wonder the king often told us that Daxia is a vast country with rich products. I felt it when I came here last time. Today is even different. I have never seen such a big country. Bonfire, this is bigger than the bonfire we lit when we celebrated!”
Tongyu Gua said: "This is nothing! I have seen bonfires bigger than this. When I was young, a huge bonfire was lit on Sun Mountain once, which was many times bigger than this!"
Jin Yugua said: "Brother, that's not a bonfire you're talking about. That time, our tribe angered the God of Fire in the sky. In a fit of anger, he lowered the holy fire and set the entire Sun Mountain on fire. The purpose was to punish us and celebrate us. A campfire is different.”
Baozhuhua said: "Don't talk nonsense, this is not a bonfire. Have you ever seen anyone lighting a bonfire in their own house?"
Jin Yugua was stunned, looked into the distance carefully, and then said loudly: "Yes, this is not a bonfire! This is Chen Xiaotian's house on fire! Zhu...Zhuhua, are we going to help?"
Chen Xiaotian took the lead in entering the tunnel, followed closely by Chen Yixin and Pan Suxuan. After Ma Desheng carried Xu San into the tunnel, Chen Xiaotian patted the wall lightly and heard a creaking sound, and the secret door slowly closed behind the four of them. Chen Xiaotian was in front, and the four of them filed through the tunnel. They encountered several forks in the road. Fortunately, Chen Xiaotian guided them so they didn't get lost. Pan Suxuan looked to the left and right as he walked, and saw a lot of small holes in the walls on both sides. He must have hidden weapons such as crossbows and arrows, but he didn't know where the trap was. He was frightened every step he took, so he had to tighten his grip. Following closely behind Chen Xiaotian and others, they were afraid of triggering the mechanism and causing death.
After walking in fear for a while, after turning a corner, three huge stone doors appeared in front of the four of them. Each stone door had two knockers, one black and one red. I saw Chen Xiaotian walking to the stone door on the right, holding the red door knocker, twisting it three times to the left and once to the right. After hearing a rumble, the stone door slowly opened from the middle to the left and right. Chen Xiaotian turned around and said, "Everyone, please come in."
Pan Suxuan and others walked into the stone door and took a closer look. They saw a huge room behind the stone door. There were also candles burning in the room. Looking around through the bright light, there was nothing in the room. There was only one room in the middle of the empty walls. Dark green stone bed.
Chen Xiaotian walked to the stone bed and said to Ma Desheng: "Put Xu San's body here. Yixin, go get the tools." Chen Yixin nodded, walked to the other side of the stone bed, bent down, and took out a golden The box, opened the box and placed it in front of Chen Xiaotian.
The box was filled with all kinds of small knives, axes, hammers and other objects. Pan Suxuan was puzzled after seeing it. Chen Xiaotian first picked up a pair of silver scissors in the box, cut open the black cloth and jacket wrapped around Xu San's body, exposing his upper body, then picked up the knife in the box, and slowly cut the skin along Xu San's jaw. open……
Only then did Pan Suxuan know that Chen Xiaotian planned to dissect Xu San's body step by step to study the cause of Xu San's death. He did not expect that the dignified general protecting the country would be proficient in the matter of mutilation.
As soon as he cut open the skin on Xu San's chest, Chen Xiaotian was stunned. Ma Desheng behind him said in astonishment: "We also carefully inspected Xu San's body yesterday and found nothing unusual. Unexpectedly, the strange thing was Inside the skin!”
Pan Suxuan stepped forward to take a look, and saw that Xu San's cut skin revealed dark subcutaneous tissue, and there was a faint fishy smell. Upon seeing this, Chen Yixin said: "If it were yesterday's body, with the current temperature and weather, normal decay would not have reached this level. Father, is this a sign of poisoning?"
Chen Xiaotian nodded and said: "Yes, at first I thought Xu San was accidentally injured and died by me, but now it seems that someone else killed him."
After hearing this, Chen Yixin asked in surprise: "Who can kill someone in front of his father without being noticed?"
Chen Xiaotian had a solemn expression and did not answer. He turned to Ma Desheng and said, "Desheng, turn Xu San's body over and let me see the injuries on his back."
Ma Desheng lifted Xu San's body and placed it head down on the stone bed. Only then did Pan Suxuan notice that the stone bed in front of him was made of a piece of natural jade, with a hollow center.
