It turned out that Li Xia Ci learned the clues about Yingyue Tower from the shopkeeper of the bank yesterday, and rushed directly to investigate. Unfortunately, the speed of the horse still could not catch up with the spread of the news. Before she could reach West Lake, By the way, he was politely invited home by the secret guard who had been hiding all this time. At this moment, he was losing his temper as a young lady.
But she was extremely well-educated. She didn't smash and throw things around, nor did she beat or scold her servants at every turn. She just wanted to threaten them with not eating. At this moment, she was hungry and holding back her posture.
It turns out that she is the daughter of the city lord, no wonder she spends so generously.
After observing for half a night, until the bright moon set in the west and the lights everywhere went out, neither of them noticed anything unusual here, but they knew that the deeper the night was, the more the beasts in the jungle would stop lurking and come out.
Just when Chou Yin was handing over, there was a strange sound on the road in Shanyin, but it was three carriages quietly and slowly driving towards the city lord's palace. All the wheels of the carriage and the horses' hooves were wrapped in thick cotton cloth, and there was only a faint rustling sound as it moved. If it weren't for Qingya's extremely sharp perception after fused with the needle, he wouldn't have been able to detect this small movement.
"Let's go, Sister Qing'er, there's something going on outside."
The two of them took advantage of the darkness and went out, only to see a group of people walking quietly on the mountain road outside. In such a thick night, they didn't even light a torch, but they moved forward smoothly like an old horse knowing the way. It seemed that they were already familiar with the road.
Without alerting the snake, the two quietly landed on the top of a metasequoia, and followed them forward slowly. The closer they got to the City Lord's Mansion, the more they confirmed that what Wuyou Girl said earlier was true.
However, they did not go to the gate. Instead, they stopped at a place where rocks gathered on one side. Then a few big men walked out of the crowd. They were the same people who flew into the crowd carrying the cauldron that day. They came to a huge boulder connected to the mountain. The base of the boulder was dragged back and forth and kept shaking. After a while, the boulder swayed away from the mountain, revealing the dark gap behind it. It turned out that this boulder could Mobile.
After removing a gap, everyone worked together to drag the bottom of the boulder and lift it up in one go. After the boulder was moved, it was discovered that there was a cave-like space behind it, without any light, leading to the depths of the mountain.
After the road was opened, they lifted several boxes from the carriage. Qingya guessed that they contained gold and silver money that they had collected from various places.
After a while, they walked into the depths of the cave, closed the huge stone door again, and the remaining few drove the carriage back the same way. After waiting to confirm that no one was around, the two Qingya people showed up.
"I didn't expect that there is a cave at the foot of the City Lord's Mansion. No wonder I can't find any abnormalities inside. Come on, let's follow and take a look."
The boulder seemed to weigh a thousand kilograms, which was indeed an insurmountable weight for ordinary people. However, Qingya just inserted the tip of Qing Ming's sword into the soil at the bottom of the boulder, tilted it upward, and the boulder was moved away.
Just when he took Qing Ming back, Qing Ya felt that the hilt of the sword suddenly became a lot colder, as if he was protesting Qing Ya's action of inserting it into the soil just now.
After entering the cave, the dark road continued to wind forward, and it was impossible to see my fingers, as if the road in front of me led all the way to the depths of hell.
Qing Ya subconsciously stretched out his right hand, which happened to touch Hua Qing'er's stretched out left hand. Without words, the two of them instantly intertwined their fingers. In the darkness, the other person was their most important concern.
The two of them groped the wall and moved forward slowly. Qingya firmly remembered how many turns they took along the way and the direction of the turns. In the dark night, all sounds seemed to be amplified several times. Qingya could clearly hear his own heartbeat, and he could also clearly hear the slightly accelerated heartbeat of Hua Qing'er beside him.
Her breathing has also sped up slightly, and there are faint beads of sweat on her palms. This is the first real enemy in her life. Even if she is extremely talented, she will inevitably be nervous.
Qing Ya scratched her palm with his fingers, then whispered into her ear: "Don't worry, Sister Qing'er, I have the Hehe Jade that Master gave me. Even if the other party's cultivation is higher than ours, it won't hurt them." To ours.”
Their faces were very close to each other, and Qingya could feel the warmth on her face, as well as the refreshing fragrance that penetrated her heart and spleen.
"How can I be nervous? It's airtight here and it's a bit hot." Hua Qing'er responded in a low voice.
After this small episode, the tense atmosphere seemed to have eased a bit. The two of them continued to fumble forward. After about half an hour, light finally appeared in front of them.
The two of them slowed down at the same time, and the sound of conversation in front gradually became clearer.
"The total number last month was 150,000 to 8,600 taels. It is indeed a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River. Even ordinary people can collect this amount."
"This time there are already a few. It seems that the number here is almost saturated. After a while we will be ready to go to the next place."
"I have had enough of the poor life in the mountains and valleys. Now that I have money, I have to show it off."
"Don't talk nonsense. Be careful, the walls have ears. Let's continue heading north to Jinling City next month."
Qingya heard that the person who spoke last was the Uncle Zhong Yan who almost had a conflict with him yesterday. It seemed that this time, the conflict was unavoidable.
"Even the city lord is one of ours, so there is nothing to worry about. Is it possible that someone can be killed from here?"
As if in response to his words, as soon as he finished speaking, a ray of sword light struck from the darkness and hit the fire where they were sitting, causing sparks as high as one person to rise.
"who."
A sudden change occurred, and everyone reacted and prepared their weapons for defense. They saw a man and a woman slowly appear in the darkness, it was Qing Ya and Hua Qing'er.
"You are wantonly searching for people's wealth and wealth, and you still want to run away?"
The restraint just now faded away, Qing Ming flashed with cold light, and Qing Ya held a long sword in his hand, like Shura in the dark night.
"Is that you?" Apparently, the person opposite also recognized Qing Ya.
"It turns out that you came here to cause trouble yesterday. If it hadn't been for the Holy Spirit to stop you, you would have been whipped to death by me. You actually dared to come to my door today. It seems that I can't keep you."
As he spoke, Zhong Yan had already mobilized his spiritual power. Fireworks rose from the steel whip, ready to strike Qingya and the two with thunder at any time. The rest of the people also mobilized their own cultivation. For a time, swords, spears, axes and axes were covered with weapons. Various halos of light illuminated the originally dark cave.
"Uncle, are you so confident in your own strength? Be careful when sailing a thousand-year-old ship."
The light and shadow between Hua Qing'er's fingers flipped, and the two lotuses of ice and fire were intertwined with each other. A layer of frost formed on the wall of the cave and then melted quickly, and the steaming mist lingered around the two of them.
