The Mystery of Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 35 Hiring the beautiful lady Ningzhu, the monk on Yunzhou Road talks about martial arts

When he got up to eat the next day, Chang Yun still looked at the calm Ji Hai with a guilty conscience.

Ji Hai had already let Ji Hai secretly put the jade pendant back into the women's room, but it was a bit embarrassing to think about such things as stealing incense and jade.

Arriving at the inn lobby, ordinary monks were drinking and eating meat again, and the innkeeper was chattering about something.

Seeing Chang Yun coming in, the monk hurriedly beckoned Chang Yun to sit at the table as if he had seen a savior.

"You boss is so unreasonable. I told you that someone will pay for my drinks. No, it's Mr. Chang." After speaking, he looked at Chang Yun for help.

Chang Yun was speechless, and the co-author ordinary monk came to drink on credit again early in the morning, but he still paid his bill.

Chang Yun had no choice but to ask Ji Hai to pay for the wine, ordered some food, and poured a cup of hot tea for the monk.

"Thank you, son, for your help, and the monk will definitely repay you."

Chang Yun smiled, "It's okay, I'm leaving for Yunzhou after breakfast, do you want to go with the monk?"

"Naturally, I already promised my son last night. Although the monk is ordinary, he does what he says." The monk looked at Chang Yun seriously.

Just as Chang Yun was about to speak, he heard footsteps, and the woman in purple shirt from yesterday also stepped into the lobby.

Seeing Chang Yun and the others, the woman walked over quickly, "Thank you for your generous help with yesterday's matter, and there is one more thing I would like to discuss with you."

Before Chang Yun could speak, the ordinary monk said, "It's easy to say, please tell me, female benefactor."

"I want to ask you to be my bodyguards!"

Chang Yun was taken aback, guard?
"You have also seen what happened last night. It is inevitable that someone will come to intercept me in the future, so I want you to accompany me to protect me. Of course, you will be rewarded a lot." After finishing speaking, he threw a piece of gold on the table.

"We may not be on the same road with you, how can we be your guards?" Chang Yun had just finished speaking, when he saw Ji Hai staring at him in disbelief, and could only stare back fiercely.

"On the same road, same road. The benefactor is going to Yunzhou, and we are going to Yunzhou too. It's a coincidence, a coincidence." The ordinary monk stretched out his fat hand, put the gold into his arms, and agreed.

The purple-shirted woman smiled, and Chang Yun's heart fluttered at her blooming smile, "That's right, I'm also going to Yunzhou."

"Wonderful!" The monk picked up the wine glass and drank it down.

When we set off after breakfast, the team heading to Yunzhou became bigger, with one master and one servant, one monk and one woman.

The woman's name is Ningzhu, and Chang Yun is even more sure that Wei Ningzhu is the name of the Princess Changle in the information.

In order to make it easier for Ning Zhu to travel, Ji Hai rented a carriage in the town, Ning Zhu sat in the carriage, the monk and Chang Yun drove the carriage, and Ji Hai accompanied him on horseback.

"Female benefactor, that Taoist priest last night?" The monk's mouth was broken, and his curiosity was extremely heavy, "What is the origin of that Taoist priest?"

The woman named Ningzhu thought for a while, and said, "That's my family's servant. By, by my father's order, I want to take me home."

"Why did the female benefactor run away from home?"

"Uh, Monk, do you ask too many questions?" Chang Yun saw that Ningzhu was a bit embarrassed, so he interrupted his questioning.

The monk smiled mischievously, without being annoyed, and chatted with Chang Yun about yesterday's Taoist martial arts.

"The female benefactor's domestic servant is extremely powerful, and should be the second rank of the Profound Realm."

Chang Yun saw that the monk seemed to be quite familiar with the quality of warriors, so he asked, "Monk, how many are the strongest warriors in this world?"

The monk replied: "Warriors in the world, one of the three realms and nine grades, should use the way of heaven as the strongest. The next is the mysterious realm, and then the realm of transforming the realm. There are only a handful of masters in the way of heaven. There is a Nangong family in Lingnan, and the head of the family, Nangong Hong, is famous." A long-standing master of heaven. There is a Qishou Temple on Fangtang Mountain in Yunzhou, and there is also an eminent monk. Then there is the Yang family in Jiannan. It is said that there was a master in the Yang family in the battle of Yaoshan in the past. He fought against Nangong Hong all day and night The victory or defeat, making Patriarch Nangong return with regret, should also be a master of heaven, but none of the warriors in the world know his name."

"No more?" Chang Yun asked curiously.

"No? Is it? Mr. Chang, if you are a master of Taoism in the day, you can have it. You have to realize the mystery of heaven and earth and see the ups and downs of life and death before you can comprehend the Tao." The monk looked at Chang like an idiot. Yun suddenly thought of something again, "Oh yes, from Qingzhou to the east, there is a large island named Suxin. It is said that there is also a master of heaven on it. He is good at using flying swords. He once broke hundreds of pirates with one sword."

"Break a hundred boats with one sword? Is it so evil?" Chang Yun was full of disbelief.

"Martial art breaks through the way of heaven, and everything in the world can be used as a sharp weapon to kill people, even wind and clouds can be driven." The ordinary monk said here with a pious expression.

"What about Beidi Tianxiong? Are there any masters of the Dao of Heaven?"

The monk had expected that Chang Yun would ask this question, "I have seen a few of Beidi and Tianxiong's masters of the profound realm. Heavenly Dao, I have never heard of it."

Sitting in the carriage, Ning Zhu interjected: "Thinking about breaking through the realm, in addition to polishing martial arts, you also need to clean up your self-cultivation before you can enter the palace."

The monk clapped his hands and said: "What the benefactor said is great kindness, that's exactly what it is. Although Beidi and Tianxiong Kingdom are martial arts, they are uneducated after all."

Chang Yun frowned and said: "Not necessarily, Tianxiong Kingdom has been reborn in recent years, it's not like it used to be like before."

"Oh? Have you been to Tianxiong?" Ning Zhu asked.

Chang Yun didn't speak. When he was stationed in Xiji State with his father, the Wule people and Tianxiong he dealt with the most. Thinking of this reminded Chang Yun of the death of his father Chang Guangsheng, and he felt a little sad.

Seeing that Chang Yun was suddenly in a bad mood, the ordinary monk kept silent, and Ning Zhu didn't speak any more.

After walking like this for a day, the four of them crossed the Hun River and entered the territory of Yunzhou.

Ji Haizhu glanced at him immediately, then turned around and said, "Master, we are already in Yunzhou, and there is a small town called Anding County in front of us. We can rest for a day, and we can arrive in Jicheng tomorrow."

Jicheng is the capital of Yunzhou, and most of the military and administrative offices of Yunzhou are set up there, and it is also the first stop of Chang Yun's investigation.

"Okay, then go to Anding City to rest." Chang Yun nodded, raised his whip, and the carriage drove in the direction of Anding City.

In less than half an hour, the city of Anding County had already appeared in everyone's field of vision. Ji Hai looked from afar and saw a person staggering towards the direction of the carriage, followed by several people chasing after him with knives.

The fleeing man had obviously been stabbed, leaving an intermittent line of blood on the ground while running.

"Chitou, save me." Chang Yun shouted at Ji Hai after seeing the situation ahead.

Ji Hai didn't talk nonsense. With one hand on the saddle, his body swung forward lightly. After landing, he stretched out his dagger and coldly pointed at the people who were chasing him.

The person who ran away was a middle-aged scholar, seeing someone offering a helping hand, he knelt down beside the carriage with a plop, and the monk hurriedly jumped out of the carriage to support him.

The murderers with knives were all wearing Taoist uniforms. They couldn't figure out the depth of Chang Yun and the others, so they could only behave in a quack manner, and said loudly: "Who are you waiting for? Dare to meddle in my Taoist affairs?"

Chang Yun said lightly: "Oh, Daozong? But that day Yuandao?"

"how do you know?"

"Chicken heads, kill them all."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)