That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 131

This night rain in late spring is not as soft and fine as the spring rain, but it is gradually turning into a strong summer rain. Half an hour after the rain, the stagnant water on the Qingshiban street has already overflowed the feet.

If someone looked down at Shendu from the sky at this time, they would find teams of dark guards rushing past in countless streets and alleys, like hundreds of rivers entering the sea, converging towards the center of Shendu.

This area stretches for more than ten kilometers. It used to be the palace city, but it was abandoned after the war. Now it is the residence of the king's mansion, the top dignitaries and the Sansi yamen. The Sun family's mansion is located here, and it is adjacent to the county king's mansion. It can be seen The background of the Sun family also shows that this place is extraordinary.Therefore, all the dignitaries in Shendu and even the whole Yuzhou are proud of buying a mansion here, which can be called every inch of land and every inch of money.

It was the Anwei Mansion that dared to do something here. Presumably, the Anwei Mansion even dared to move Chonglong Guan, one of the four great Taoist temples, and was afraid of the city full of dignitaries in this god's capital?
Half an hour later, seven or eight out of ten hidden guards in the city gathered in front of a gorgeous mansion and surrounded the mansion.The dark guards are all wearing bamboo hats and coir raincoats, under which are dark guard official robes, holding knives in their hands, standing awe-inspiring.

Afterwards, there were still dark guards joining in, but most of these dark guards later unsheathed their weapons, and blood dripped continuously from them, melting into the torrential rain under their feet.

After a while, two faint lights suddenly lit up in the deep night. From far to near, they became bigger and bigger.

When the two points of light got closer, people suddenly realized that they were actually two pale white lanterns, floating on their own, ignoring the heavy rain, emitting a faint dim fluorescent light, swaying erratically, appearing desolate and strange, in which After that, a pitch-black sedan chair drifted up.

The sedan chair was carried by four hidden guards, and when it landed, with a jingling sound, the sedan chair curtain made of more than a thousand jade beads was lifted, revealing the true face of the person in the sedan chair.

He is a skinny old man with white hair, dressed in a gorgeous flying fish official uniform, black gauze inlaid with jade on his head, and black-faced white-soled official boots. Dare to compliment, goatee, triangular eyes, especially cloudy eyes, faint green in the dark yellow, like an evil spirit, making people shudder when they look at it.

This person is not an anonymous person, his surname is Yang Mingshi He, but he is one of the eight governors of the Dark Guard Mansion, and belongs to the same level as Lu Chen of the Northwest Dark Guard Mansion, but unlike Lu Chen, he is more focused on self-cultivation Because, now he has reached the peak of the human immortal realm, and he is only one step away from the legendary earth immortal realm.

Yang Shihe sat in the sedan chair and said in a deep voice: "It has now been found out that Du's family in the divine capital secretly hid the remnants of Lu's family from the previous dynasty and plotted against him. I am hereby ordered by the governor to search everyone in Du's family. Anyone who resists and refuses to obey , shoot to kill!"

The old man's voice was not loud, but it was heard clearly in a radius of more than ten miles, and even overwhelmed the sound of the rain all over the sky.

Xiao Quji, who had heard the movement a long time ago, was standing on the watchtower of his house looking at this place. After hearing the words, he asked the old servant behind him, "Old Wang, I remember that Lu Qian's son Lu Tai died with Zhang Chuanting?" Is it in the hands of my great-uncle King Wei? The remnants of the Lu family have died long ago, so what is going on today?"

The old servant bowed and replied: "Your Highness, you only know one thing and don't know the other. It is true that Lu Qian's eldest son, Lu Tai, is dead, but Lu Qian's concubine gave birth to a young son for him. His name is Lu Pu, and it is said that he died in a fire on Jun Island. However, there are also rumors that when Lu Qian and the late emperor faced each other across the river, he once asked the real person Qing Chen to divination for him by the river, but he saw himself in the river. Then he sent his youngest son away in exchange for his post. The consequences were unexpected. During the battle of crossing the river and Dingding, Master Qingchen was defeated by Master Tianchen, and the once famous Jiangnan Wang Luqian was also defeated by Master Tianchen. The sword cut off the head on the neck."

Xiao Quji became interested, and let out a hesitant voice, "In this way, this Lu Pu has been hiding in Shendu for so many years. After careful calculation, he should be sixty years old this year, and he is twice as old as this king." It's more than twice that, since I was a child, I didn't know that there was such a No. [-] person under my nose, and I really don't know how the ghosts in the Dark Guard Mansion found out."

The old servant said with a smile: "Emperor Jing personally set up the Anwei Mansion. After two dynasties, its roots have spread all over the world. The ability to track people can be said to be the best in the world. No, let’s just say that the young master of the Sword Sect, if he came to look for it in the Dark Guard Mansion, he might have already fallen into the trap by now.”

At this moment, a loud noise came from Du's mansion, Lao Wang and Xiao Quji looked together, it turned out that Yang Shihe had already made a move, and after he got out of the sedan chair, green will-o'-the-wisps appeared in the palms of his hands, and then With two palms together, it turned into a spherical flame the size of half a person, and then pushed forward, the ball of fire flew out like a boulder thrown by a trebuchet, landed on the gate of the gorgeous mansion and exploded, directly destroying the whole A tall gate building was razed to the ground together with the surrounding courtyard walls.

Yang Shihe's voice came from far away again, but this time there was no useless nonsense, only a simple kill word.

Countless dark guards swarmed into the Du family mansion.

Yang Shi He stood in the rain with his hands behind his hands, his gray beard trembling slightly.

——In the inn, the old Confucian scholar put down the wine bowl in his hand, and said: "My surname is Du, and my name is Pingyuan. I belong to the Du family in the city of the gods. I have traveled a lot in recent years and just returned to the capital. Terrified, beyond sorrow."

Even so, the old man's face showed no trace of fear or sorrow, it was as plain as water.

Xu Beiyou wasn't sure what the old man meant, so he waited for the next article.

Du Pingyuan then said slowly: "The old head of the Du family, Du Mingyu, was originally the favorite general of Lu Qian, the former governor of Jiangdu. At the beginning, the former emperor Xiao Yu divided his troops into two groups. One was led by Xiao Yu himself, and he crossed the river to attack from the front. Commander Wei Jin, the governor, passed through Shuzhou, and then entered the lake from Shu. Du Mingyu was ordered to guard the two Xiangxiangs of Huzhou when he was in danger. But he had already crossed the river, Lu Qian was defeated and died, Du Mingyu had no choice but to open the city and surrender, after Emperor Xiao ascended the throne, he was disarmed and returned to the fields, so there is the Du family, the capital of God today."

Du Pingyuan sighed, "After Lu Qian's death, Emperor Xiao ordered the Secret Guards to hunt down the remnants of the Lu family. The Lu family, which originally had more than a hundred direct descendants, died one after another during the decades of pursuit. Now only the Lu family is left. One person. The reason why that person was able to escape the eyes and ears of the Dark Guard Mansion was not because of his supernatural powers, but because Du Mingyu used his own son to replace the youngest son of the governor Lu Qian, and faked The illusion that Lu Qian's youngest son had been buried in the sea of ​​fire left a thread of blood for the Lu family."

Xu Beiyou murmured: "What a drama about the orphans of the Lu family."

Du Pingyuan lowered his head and said with a smile: "If this orphan of the Lu family can avenge his father and the whole family one day, it will be a big show. Unfortunately, the Xiao family is now sitting on the world, and it is difficult to get revenge. Most of the orphans of the Lu family To die without a name is not a drama, but a joke."

Xu Beiyou shook his head and said, "Since you can't take revenge, why don't you continue to hide your name, so as to continue the next line of incense for the Lu family."

Du Pingyuan said softly: "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop. How can these wolves from the Dark Guard Mansion be easy to get along with? Those dark guards just now went to Du's family. This Du family is considered a respectable Du family in God's City. died."

Xu Beiyou remained silent.

Du Pingyuan hesitated for a moment, and said: "Little brother, if the old man is not mistaken, you should be a member of the Sword Sect? With your swordsmanship, you can hide it from others, but you can't hide it from the old man."

Xu Beiyou's face suddenly froze, and his whole body was full of sword intent.

The old Confucian scholar waved his hand and said, "Don't be nervous, the reason why this old man recognized you was only because he had friendship with Gongsun Zhongmou, the lord of the Sword Sect, and you didn't deliberately cover up in front of this old man, so I was seen through by this old man. You have lost your identity, but the old man will give you a word today, if you don’t keep secret, you will just lose your minister, if you don’t keep secret, you will lose your wealth and life.”

Xu Beiyou nodded heavily, and then said slowly: "I think the old man is the orphan of the Lu family?"

(End of this chapter)