Yuandi was originally the fiefdom of Princess Chiyan. The princess built two palaces facing each other here, one is Yuan Palace and the other is Zhi Palace. Before Zhi Palace was completely repaired, the princess got separated from the large army during an expedition and there was no news about it. There is only one Yuan Palace left in Yuandi. This place is also known as "Yuan Palace" after coming and going.
Regarding Yuan Palace, there are poems, songs and rhymes left to praise it in all dynasties. Among them, there are many praises and criticisms, which also occupy a considerable space.
Not to mention the distance, when Yu Gaozu, the founding emperor of this dynasty, passed through the Yuan Palace during his expedition, he wrote a poem on the wall paved with pearl powder:
“The ruins are in ruins and the willows are blown away by the east wind, and the homeland is heartbroken by the torrential rain.
Where do you know where the cheers are coming from? Jiao Wa looked at Yuan Gong with a smile. "
Although this poem does not match the rhyme and rhyme, it points out the current situation of the country and the family at that time, when the aristocratic family was obsessed with enjoyment and did not want to make progress. It used Princess Chiyan's preference for luxury to compare the aristocratic family's inaction, selfishness and self-interest in troubled times, and pointed out the evils of the times. , hit the nail on the head, allowing Gaozu to steal the limelight for a while.
Nowadays, after two hundred years of scouring, the Yuan Palace is no longer what it used to be with jade carvings and painted eaves. Those exquisite and magnificent totem statues have also lost their color in the dust of history. Some of them no longer exist, which is surprising. Somewhat sad.
But at the same time, the place where Yuan Palace is located is no longer a royal forbidden garden. Around the dilapidated Yuan Palace, many communities of ordinary people have gradually been established. The streets are criss-crossed and the dust is rolling around. The people's lives are prosperous and prosperous, drawing nutrients from the bones of the defeated previous emperors, showing a simple but friendly appearance.
Xu Zhuchen sat in Li Fenglong's tea room and placed the information on the table one by one. Li Fenglong sat opposite her, squinting his eyes slightly. The jasmine tablets in his hand were a little cold, but he refused Yu He's move to add tea, and just whispered to her and sent her away.
"Why is my weapons store included in the information you collected, Zhu Chen?"
Xu Zhuchen lowered his head and glanced at the piece of information, then took it out and handed it to Li Fenglong: "Sister Feng, the two northwest states now have Zhiyang as the core, and the whole territory of Zhiyang has you as its lord. The surrounding cities, Anbu and Yuan Palace, where can I be without your arrangements?"
Her words were meant to knock Li Fenglong, but Li Fenglong was not angry or angry, he just pretended to be confused because he understood.
"Since you praised me so much, what did you find out about me?"
Xu Zhuchen selected two pieces of waxed paper from the information on the table, pressed his slender fingers on the pages, and pushed them in front of Li Fenglong.
"Chen Zhong, a swordsman, disappeared in the woods on the border of Anbu and Zhiyang on a mission a month ago. Also missing with him was the carriage he used to transport saltpeter. At the end of last month, several small escort agencies in Anbu refused They were solicited by the Shanyin Escort Bureau and even threatened with vague "cannon fire". My people found that there were indeed traces of saltpeter that had not been cleaned up in their warehouse. A large amount of saltpeter was stolen from Zhiyang. Flowed into the small escort agency in Anbu.
"Just two days ago, Chen Zhong's body was found at the foot of Zhishui River. The hijacked carriage is still missing."
"Jiang Chunshui and Jiang Chunfeng are the designers of Huayu Academy. They are from Yuangong and are cousins. Except for two name certificates and Huayu Academy, I can't find any clues about them. The last time they were seen was in Zhiyang, Ten Five years ago, on the day Huayu Academy was built, someone saw two gray-haired women walking into the academy together. After that, they disappeared.
"Jin Liang is the second and last owner of Huayu Academy. He took over Huayu Academy five years ago, changed the stone buildings to wood, and made a small fortune by reselling the stones. Two years ago, the academy caught fire, and the porridge... Ah Azadirachta disappeared in the fire. Jin Liang was afraid of being sued for his life, so he left Zhiyang that night. After the Huayu Academy was burned down, because Azadirachta's name slip was not found in the wreckage, and no remains were found, the matter was dismissed. Let it go.
"After leaving the academy, he devoted himself to the stone business. Because most of the stones he dealt with were in the style of the Jiang sisters, and the source was easy to trace. In the past two years, he first ran to Cole City, and then approached Zhiyang. .The latest large-scale transaction occurred at the end of May. Wang He's banquet required thirty pieces of stone slabs with houndstooth patterns, and the supplier was Jin Liang. The person who transported the stone slabs took an extremely dangerous and quiet route, so he did not They were stopped by your people. Their starting point was Yuan Palace."
Xu Zhuchen read out the contents on the paper one by one. After reading, he placed the two papers side by side, and a faint blue fire suddenly appeared from his fingertips, igniting the two papers.
"According to what you said, after Zhiyang entered the 'forbidden travel', the number of caravans and people traveling in and out of escorts has indeed decreased significantly. But at the same time, the number of entries and exits on some small roads has increased sharply. The information I have is that those who can There are almost no records of people who enter Zhiyang leaving Zhiyang. This trick of 'inviting you into the urn' is really effective."
"However, I noticed," Xu Zhuchen's snow-white face looked a bit ghostly and quiet in the blue light, "At the end of May, a lightly-armed team left the city from Zhiyang Shulin and headed for Yuangong. There has been no news since then. Before that, The only people who left the city were the coachman who took me to Zhiyang, and Luo Zhi, who had just recovered from his injuries. There is no such record in your notes. "
"Sister Feng, what is the purpose of this 'borrowing a knife to kill' person?"
Li Fenglong's hand holding the tea cup was a little sore. She pushed the tea cup gently, and the cup flew out steadily and was hanging above Xu Zhuchen's blue fire.
The blue fire wrapped the celadon ice-cracked teacup. Almost at the same time, the lines on the porcelain cup were burned through by the fire, revealing four golden characters: Walls have ears.
Xu Zhuchen responded extremely quickly. Before the gold characters completely disappeared, her fingers had already picked up the lid of the teacup in front of her, and with two fingers, the lid flew out of the door.
A crisp and weak sound was transmitted into the room, the sound of porcelain and iron swords intersecting. Xu Zhuchen's force was so strong that the cup lid flew against the iron sword of the incoming man. The brittle and thin celadon gradually flew away under the confrontation between the two powerful forces, turning into sharp and sharp fragments and shooting out in all directions.
Li Fenglong raised his palm and set up a wall of void air to block the ceramic pieces flying into the house. Xu Zhuchen ducked out of the door, and a grappling hand flew out, but was avoided by the people outside the door.
Not bad movement skills, Xu Zhuchen thought to himself. She didn't want to get entangled, so she took the sword out of its sheath and wanted to keep it.
The man knew that he was no match for the two people in the room, and he did not dare to stay for a long time. He just relied on his good physical skills and tried his best to deal with Xu Zhuchen in search of a chance of survival. Xu Zhuchen was about to use his sword move when he heard Li Fenglong crying in the room:
"Damn girl! Didn't I tell you to be diligent and frugal in running the house? My precious celadon tea set from Yinji Kiln! If you break anything else, just wait and work for me for the rest of your life!"
After only a moment of hesitation, the other party had already seized the opportunity, stooped down and sprinted out of the corridor, leaping to the roof of the main room. Seeing that he had succeeded, the man couldn't help but turn around and smile sarcastically: The rumored Li Fenglong and Xu Zhuchen seemed to be nothing more than that.
At this moment, she felt a coldness on her shoulders. The next second, severe pain shot through her shoulders, and something warm spurted out and splashed on her dark mask.
Before the man in black turned around, there was a chill on his neck.
"Don't move." A low female voice came from behind her. The two of them were so close that they were almost whispering, so it seemed particularly ambiguous in the dark night. "Who gave you the courage to make you feel like 'the best sword in the world'?" 'A person who is so reckless that he wants to read out the information one by one?"
The cold sword edge circled around the neck of the man in black and pressed against her throat. The person behind her pressed her against her chest, and while she was distracted, he quickly removed her chin with one hand, and then pulled off the black mask that covered her face. in the mouth.
Xiao Mei grabbed one of the movable arms of the man in black, clasped it on her back, and jumped off the roof lightly.
She did not miss the exchange between the two, nor did she miss the look in Xu Zhuchen's eyes that said "We are reliable" when he looked at her.
Xiao Mei smiled, walked to the rosewood table with azure ink mica stones, tied up the man in black, and then took his seat: "Where were you talking about just now?"
Li Fenglong rubbed his eyes and said helplessly: "Little Lotus, your Xu Zhuchen just dipped water on the table and wrote to me, 'Azadiragi wore a smart black suit tonight for covert operations.'" In this quarter of an hour of drama, I even know what you had for three meals a day."
Xiao Mei unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth, showing no trace of embarrassment on his face. She returned Xu Zhuchen's sword to her, and when their eyes met, they were full of affection.
Li Fenglong really couldn't stand the disgusting atmosphere, so he pretended to rub his arms and sighed: "Oh, I'm getting old, I can't stand it anymore." He didn't know whether it was because he couldn't stand the hot and cold weather, or because he couldn't stand the greasy and crooked eyes. Two crooked people.
She simply cast her eyes on the tied man in black, closed her chin, took out a roster from her arms, flipped through it, and said with a smile: "This is not Zhou Tang, who was last in the petition meeting before. Lord? Why are you free today to be the gentleman of Liang Shang in my weapons shop?"
Zhou Ji's skills are not as good as others, so he has nothing to say: "Boss Li, Zhou Ji has lost. It seems that this bounty can only be given to others."
Her eyes fell coldly on Xiao Mei: "I only heard that Boss Li's two diners are still recovering from their injuries, but I didn't expect that you two have recovered. Zhou Ji miscalculated and is willing to sacrifice his life for you."
Xiao Mei and Xu Zhuchen looked at each other, then looked at Zhou Ji, and couldn't help laughing: "Palace Master Zhou, if my boss says he won't accept your surrender, what will you do?"
Zhou Ji's face suddenly turned pale, then turned red quickly. She gritted her teeth and said, "No, it's impossible. I, I, Zhou Ji, are not incompetent, but, just this time..."
Seeing her incoherence, Li Fenglong smiled and said, "Okay, Hall Master Zhou, I know what kind of person you are. I agree to your joining."
"It's just that-" Xiao Mei drawled his voice and added, "Next time you want to surrender, you don't have to go to such great lengths to compete with the 'No. 1 Sword in the World'. We, Boss Li, oh, no, our leader of the Yaoyang Alliance Sister Li Feng has decided to recruit heroes from all over the world. You are already the fifth 'assassin' in the past few days."
Zhou Ji's complexion turned red and white again, and her right arm twitched. She thought she had been enduring the pain. Now she frowned, and she was really about to cry.
Seeing them teasing Zhou Ji like this, Xu Zhuchen couldn't help but laugh helplessly. She glanced at Xiao Mei and saw that she nodded, so she condensed another stream of blue fire at her fingertips and shot it into Zhou Ji's right shoulder instantly.
The pain in his shoulders was like melting ice, melting into flames in an instant. Zhou Ji stared blankly at the people in front of him, unaware that the rope had been disconnected and he had regained his ability to move.
"I just said it." Li Fenglong sat between Xu and Xiao, with a calm aura in his smile: "I, Li Fenglong, leader of the Yaoyang Alliance, recruit heroes from all over the world."
She looked around and saw Xu Zhuchen and Xiao Mei clearly looking at each other across her, and she couldn't help but curse: Of course, single heroes are better.
