A teahouse two streets away from the Temple of the City God.
The tea house was not open today, the doors and windows on the second floor were closed, and all the chairs were turned over and placed on the Eight Immortals table.
In the corner sat a tall, thin middle-aged man wearing a hat.
—He sat directly on the floor with a porcelain cup full of tea in front of him.
The cup is coarse china, and the tea leaves are floating in the tea.
Whether it is from the window or the stairs, it is difficult to see this strange person staring at the porcelain cup at first sight.
The noise outside gradually became louder, and it seemed that many people were running.
"It's a fight... the blacksmith shop... the gangsters..."
Ambiguous words came in through the windows, the roof tiles creaked, and the downstairs screamed and panicked.
Someone jumped onto the roof of the second floor of the tea house, stepping on the tiles and sliding, as if landing heavily. He walked around the roof at a very fast speed, observing the situation in all directions, as if chasing someone, trying to find the trace of the other party.
There was another scream in the distance.
The people on the roof stomped angrily, jumped up, and left the restaurant.
From the beginning to the end, the man in the bucket hat sitting cross-legged on the floor didn't move, just looked up at the beams coldly as the tiles slid.
Gradually, the noise in the distance gradually subsided, and the porcelain cup in front of the man with the hat still did not shake at all.
"Miss Liu lost her hand."
There was no vibration, and the prepared thunderbolt tube didn't explode.
The hat man half closed his eyes and let out a sigh.
He stood up slowly, stopped looking at the porcelain cup, and walked downstairs.
The light from the crack in the window slowly reflected on his face. First is the firm, angular chin, a layer of green stubble, and then the straight and ruthless corners of the mouth.
He is not like a swordsman, there is a mask under the hat. A normal hat can only cover half of the face.
At the entrance of the stairs stood two servants dressed as teahouse running halls. They bowed their backs, and when they saw someone coming down, they immediately called out "Master" in a low voice.
When they spoke, they were very respectful and did not dare to look up.
"Where's Sun Xi?" The Dou Li man's voice was very soft, like a gust of wind blowing gently across his ears.
The shoulders of the two servants trembled slightly, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.
The profuse sweat even dripped onto the floor in front of them.
At this moment, a respectful call saved the two servants.
"My lord, forgive me, I don't know if the lord is here, it's because my subordinates are neglecting me."
Shopkeeper Sun happened to step into the teahouse, his face was extremely ugly, and he was also a little uneasy.
Shopkeeper Sun walked quickly in front of the Dou Liren, deeply bowed his head and said: "The subordinates are not careful, miss important information, so they are passive everywhere, destroying the foundation of Run County and the best time to get rid of Fengxing Pavilion. "
The man in the hat first waved his hand, and then said: "Fengxing Pavilion is a mob, it doesn't matter when you get rid of it, you have run the county for many years without credit or hard work, even if it is destroyed, I will not blame it. Dewei, do you know What was the real mistake?"
Shopkeeper Sun felt a shudder rolling down his back very quickly, knowing that if he didn't answer this question well, he was done.
"Report to the lord, this subordinate... This subordinate made the lord lose a peerless sword."
"Oh, I know you and Li Song look down on him."
The Dou Liren's tone was still calm. Shopkeeper Sun closed his eyes, no longer dared to hide it, and whispered: "After your sword fell into the hands of Fengxing Pavilion, your subordinates did not rescue them, but launched an attack directly. It is the fault of your subordinates."
Blowing up the workshop that made A Furong, abandoning Run County... All these can find reasons from the standpoint of taking the overall situation into consideration, but this one is not enough.
Even if the fine work lurking in the Fengxing Pavilion gave the swordsman a hint and a direction of escape, but there was none.
The real centrifugal force of swordsmen starts from burning Ganquan soup.
The man in the bucket hat let out a long sigh: "I know you think he's stupid and stupid, and he has been deducting the amount of Wangyou Pill that controls the Piaoping Pavilion killers, keeping those killers underground so you can't use them... "
"Lord!"
When shopkeeper Sun heard this sentence, he couldn't help interrupting the Dou Liren's words. He was in a cold sweat and tried his best to defend: "Piaoping Pavilion was made like that by him. This person is really incompetent, and he has wasted the master's mind."
Piaoping Pavilion could have caused a bigger storm on the rivers and lakes, and Shopkeeper Sun could also use this killer organization to do more things, but unfortunately, he encountered the fool of the swordsman! This man was buried in the grave and couldn't come out. He practiced knives all day long, and didn't care about other things at all. Shopkeeper Sun couldn't "get acquainted" with him, nor could he "use" him.
He was obviously one of the forces under the lord's command, but he couldn't get a little cheap. He had to work hard to deliver pills on a regular basis, and send the bound gangsters to be thugs, like grandsons. But the swordsman doesn't even know his name, let alone appreciate it. Shopkeeper Sun and the words "hard work and blame" are not on the same side, how can they not complain
The man in the bucket hat looked at Shopkeeper Sun steadily.
The latter stretched his back straight and said respectfully, "My lord, there are many good knives in this world, it may be difficult to find one that is sharper than this one, but I don't know how many knives are easier to handle than this one! We must find a suitable knife for the master!"
"very good."
The hat man turned and walked out.
Shopkeeper Sun hurriedly followed, and at the same time cautiously reported: "The identity of the person who kidnapped Li Song has been confirmed..."
"Oh? Is it because of the undercover agent you sent in Fengxing Pavilion, or the lady Liu who just lost her hand?" The man in the hat asked softly.
Shopkeeper Sun's face turned blue and white, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If the national teacher of the Chu Dynasty is still alive, he will be nearly ninety years old. Although the identity of this person has been confirmed by Fengxing Pavilion, there are still some rumors in the rivers and lakes, and even too All the changes in Beijing and Yidi a few months ago were related to this person. But there are not a few people in the world who have passed down the names of their teachers from generation to generation. This is the case with Li Kongkong, the thief. My subordinates just want to know if he... Really For Meng Qi himself."
"Now you know."
The atmosphere in the teahouse became extremely stagnant, the two servants could hardly breathe, and their faces began to turn blue.
The man in the bucket hat slowly turned around, and for the first time there was anger in his tone: "Liu Niangzi and others have practiced the Kong Hua Formation for 20 years, and they have worked so hard to find people who are suitable for contacting this martial arts, and even more so. Complete tacit understanding. Twenty years of hard work is in vain now that there are no people! Sun Xi Sun Dewei! I have always relied on you, and this is what you gave me in return?"
Shopkeeper Sun fell to his knees with a thud, unable to express the bitterness in his heart.
Lady Liu lived near the Chenghuang Temple, not to monitor the blacksmith Wang. The blacksmith Wang did not have such a big face, so what happened today was also a coincidence.
The three of Meng Qi carried a corpse to the blacksmith's shop, and then Meng Qi walked through the market unabashedly wearing Qiu Wei's robes, and with his looks, it was hard for Lady Liu to not pay attention. The area around the City God Temple was mixed with fish and dragons, and there were a lot of people from outside. They were already staffed. When they saw Meng Qi entering and leaving the dim sum shop, and then wandering around the county office, how could they not be suspicious. Besides, the city gate of Run County was still blocked, and this person who appeared suddenly went to the "blacksmith shop related to the swordsman", and his identity was almost revealed.
He was the one who disrupted the situation and kidnapped Li Zhubo last night!
Shopkeeper Sun was worried when he received this information.
He didn't know that Li Zhubo was dead.
But what the other party is going to do next, shopkeeper Sun can calculate.
—Because he would do the same.
On the bright side, Shopkeeper Sun abandoned and blew up all the clues that could be exposed, and even disguised the Sun family as one of the wealthy families who fled last night, but there are still many things he can't take away, such as the staff in the government, the barracks Troubled soldiers and forces like Liu Niangzi hidden on the streets.
These people may not know as much as Li Zhubo, and it takes a lot of effort to catch them. Meng Qi was determined to draw wages from the bottom of the pot. Didn't the Sun family slander Fengxing Pavilion and collude with bandits to attack the county? This crime can also be charged back to the Sun family, it depends on how to use Li Zhubo.
The living Li Zhubo would quibble, and the dead ones would be easier to use. They cut off their heads or threw their corpses into the magistrate’s bedroom, disguised as the leader of the bandits, claiming that it was Li Zhubo who made deals with the bandits. After killing him, he demanded property again viciously, frightened the county magistrate, and then fled when the yamen soldiers surrounded him.
Going back to the barracks and making a fuss, not to mention the county magistrate, even the county magistrate will be suspicious.
Why can the heavily guarded barracks be freely entered and exited, when no one is really involved in bandits
No evidence is needed, as long as they are strictly investigated, the people they have placed in the barracks will be temporarily abolished. If Meng Qi's methods were superb and he started from the practice of taking empty pay in the barracks, even if they did a good job, they might still be discovered, and removing all the people would be like taking no one's own initiative and attracting the attention of the Qi Dynasty.
That's all, it is mainly because the shopkeeper Sun found out according to the report of the undercover person in Fengxing Pavilion that the person who disrupted the situation was most likely the national teacher of the Chu Dynasty.
In today's world, no matter Qi Dynasty, Yichu or Shengliantan, the fear of this name is not as deep as their Xiliang people.
There are no records in the classics, and there are no rumors in the rivers and lakes.
Therefore, no one knows that the state religion of Xiliang, and the Mojieti Temple, which has gathered enough experts to compete with the sects of the rivers and lakes, died in the hands of one person.
"My lord, Rong Bin..." Shopkeeper Sun tried his best to retell his difficulties with the situation at the time, "At first, my subordinates didn't believe it, they were sitting in the barracks and saw that the other party regarded the Xuanwu killing formation as nothing and took Li away. Song, knowing that something was wrong, directly used the back trick that he thought would not be used, and blew up the underground workshop. When Lady Liu came to report, the subordinates felt that they could not let Li Song reveal more information, so they made up their minds. Not only did I send Lady Liu, but I also prepared a lot of thunder, fire and thunderbolts. The lord should have heard of it. In fact, the intention of the subordinates is to make people test the depths.
Shopkeeper Sun was trembling, the gunpowder didn't explode, and everyone could hear it.
But he was really wronged. He looked down on swordsmen and Li Song, but he never meant to send Lady Liu and others to die.
"Meng Qi broke into the Mojieti Temple and was trapped by the Konghua formation for three days. It took half an hour to break through the formation. Although Liu Niangzi's martial arts were not as good as those of the gods and monks who guarded the temple back then, it was only half an hour. There is also the help of thunder, fire and thunder, and the blacksmith shop is so small that it is difficult to perform light work... What's the matter, it shouldn't... The whole army is destroyed... "
If it is really Meng Qi, the inner strength of a person who is almost 90 years old is more pure, but his muscles and bones are not as good as when he was young, his eyesight is high, and his hands and feet can't keep up.
If it is a descendant of Meng Qi, even if he has learned the method of breaking the formation, but this is different from Qimen Dunjia, it is not an army formation, and it takes many years of hard practice by masters. Could it be that Meng Qi could still find someone who was proficient in Konghua Formation to feed his disciples
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A messy blacksmith shop.
Lady Liu struggled from the ground, her expression twisted, she realized that Shopkeeper Sun was hiding something from herself.
"Who are you exactly? Where did you learn the name of the Konghua Array, and when... have you been to Mojiati Temple?"
Other Western Liang masters also showed a look of astonishment.
It's just because the Mojati Temple disappeared more than 40 years ago.
Along with the kings of Xiliang, they were reduced to ashes.
The exercises they practiced were ancient books that were preserved in the ground in a special way. Only ten years after the country was subjugated, no one could find them.
This person actually opened his mouth and said that he had seen the air formation formed by the monks and guardians of the Magati Temple with his own eyes
Mogao is named in Sanskrit, which means a place without troubles. The state religion of the Xiliang Kingdom belongs to Sanskrit Buddhism, which has evolved into a single branch after several evolutions. It is derived from the thirteen celestial demons of the Shurangama Sutra. It even surpasses the martial arts of the famous Shahengchang Temple in the Central Plains, only because it is outside the gate all year round. It is not well-known in the Central Plains, but the real masters know the martial arts of the monks of Mojiati Temple.
The Konghua Array is the unique housekeeping skill of Mojiati Temple. From beginning to end, only one person has broken it.
"Could it be that you are Meng Qi, the national teacher of the Chu Dynasty..."
Someone was slightly smug, holding a sword and smiling.
"… disciple?"
Meng Qi's smile disappeared.
Then he faintly heard a puff, turned his head in anger, and saw Mo Li continued to applaud, and nodded, "Yes, this is also a feud, and it happened by chance."
Liu Niangzi thought that Shopkeeper Sun had asked herself to test the depth of martial arts. As long as the cellar was bombed, the order to escape immediately regardless of life or death in the cellar became more and more certain that Shopkeeper Sun knew Meng Qi's identity, and she hated it even more.
"I didn't expect that to this day, there are still people from Xiliang who want to restore the country. Judging from the situation, you are doing well?" Meng Qi decided not to care about the stupidity of these Xiliang masters. No one brought it, where did the disciples come from
However, the shuddering expressions of Liu Niangzi and others when they encountered a natural enemy were really interesting.
Mo Li suddenly turned his head.
One wall of the blacksmith shop has completely collapsed, and the storefront is facing the street, but the other two sides have remained intact.
Mo Li felt first, followed by Meng Qi.
A deep and powerful aura stood quietly outside the wall, as if a top expert was watching them across a wall.
Meng Qi raised his hand to signal Mo Li to step back, but Mo Li refused, and he felt a vague death in his breath.
That feeling can only be compared by stepping into a village full of plagues, and the murderous aura on the swordsman is a joke compared to it.
Liu Niangzi and the others first had a look of joy on their faces, and then they also started to tremble—they had messed up their errands and lost face, and they had to let the master do it himself.
The author has something to say: Kong Huazhen.
This saying comes from the Shurangama Sutra.
It is convenient for the void, don’t see the madness: when you stare at the place in front of you without blinking, and the eyes get tired for a long time, there will be flying shadows. , to the effect that form, appearance, and essence are all illusory, don't be attached. It is born after staring at it for a long time, and it is born out of attachment. No matter how you catch it, it is vain to pursue it.
The Konghua Formation is here to say that Mojieti Temple has created a dazzling formation, the more you look at it, the more chaotic it becomes, and the more you distinguish the wrong formation.
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In that year, Meng Qi, who was in the 89th grade, brought a book with him to check: ? ? I do research first
Today's Meng Qi is in the 99th grade, and he memorizes the book like a fluent: if he can break a p, he will be finished.