Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 718 My dog ​​has a licker
Chu Pingsheng ignored her. Huanggua, who was holding the sword case, stopped and looked back. With a look of disgust, he said, "You're crazy." He pushed the ground with his little feet and hurried after his master. When he passed the stone steps of the corridor, he screamed and tripped over a pillar. Fortunately, he did not fall to the ground. He muttered, "It's okay, it's okay." He patted the sword case and walked away quickly with the sword.

Jiang Ni hated herself for being useless. She couldn't help Xu Fengnian at all. She couldn't kill Lin Qing and couldn't take back the Daliang Dragon Bird. She could only worry about it. The martial arts that Cao Changqing taught her before he left were just some basic swordsmanship, which posed no threat to Lin Qing.

Chu Pingsheng brought Xu Weixiong and Huanggua back to the foot of the mountain. Without saying anything, he got into the car and told Old Xu to drive away. Ning Emei and Li Yufu didn't know what happened up there, and they didn't dare to stop them. They watched Beiliang Prince's luxury car slowly leave and disappear into the afterglow of the sunset.

It was not until dark that Li Chungang arrived at the foot of the mountain to inform them to set up camp there and spend the night in Qingcheng Mountain. After treatment, Xu Fengnian was no longer in danger, but his spirit was a little bad. He still blamed himself for killing his aunt and uncle. Fortunately, the princess of the fallen country, who always hoped that he would die and wished him well, enlightened him with her own experience. Finally, he adjusted his mentality, chose to put the overall situation first, and continued to go to Qingzhou.

The next morning, he asked the people from Fengying to send Xiao Que'er, who had broken a leg, back to Beiliang. Then, with Jiang Ni determined not to wait for Cao Changqing in Qingyang Palace but to travel with him, he set out for Qingzhou.

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Qingzhou.

Prince Jing'an's Palace.

Zhao Heng, wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, sat on a short couch made of beautifully carved dark wood. The sunlight shone through the gauze, illuminating the beeswax Buddhist beads in his hand, which were smooth and shiny, making him look noble. On the table next to him was a piece of Songjiang paper with even fibers and fine textures. There was a picture on the paper. The person in the picture was a scholar in a green shirt, with a long sword hanging from his waist and a scripture in his hand. A branch of plum blossoms was hanging from the corner of the wall. On the other side of the table was a copper incense burner with dragons on the four corners. The dragons' mouths exhaled mist, which was as bright as silver flocs and curled into the air.

Zhao Heng slightly closed his eyes and recited the "Buddha's Ten Kings Sutra", which is a relatively obscure Buddhist scripture. He had the calmness and composure of a nobleman who had experienced many storms and had seen many big scenes. It was normal for him to have such an aura, considering that he almost took the throne and became the Supreme Lord of Liyang.

Prince Zhao Xun of Jing'an stood in front of the hall, not daring to make a sound to disturb the crowd, and even when he yawned, he had to cover his mouth tightly. He had a golden crown on his head, neat and tidy temples, a broad forehead and a high nose, and was a handsome man, but with dark circles under his eyes. I don't know if it was because he slept with many beautiful women last night, or because he learned that Lin Tanhua, who had caused a big disturbance in Beiliang, had left Yongzhou and entered Qingzhou, and he was restless, lost his appetite and slept little, and his health was damaged.

Next to him stood a young man in a white Confucian robe, his back straight and no trace of impatience on his face. He was the same as he was a quarter of an hour ago. Zhao Xun admired him very much.

Crash.

After Zhao Heng finished reading a passage of scripture, he placed the beeswax Buddhist beads on the table beside him, slowly opened his eyes, met his son's impatient face, and then looked at the man next to him who was dressed like a scholar.

"I heard from Xun'er that you are from Shangyin Academy? Is your last name Zhao?"

"Yes, Zhao Kai meets Prince Jing'an." The man in a white Confucian robe bowed respectfully, with his sleeves reaching the ground.

"Xun'er said that you came to see me with a plan to offer?"

"Exactly."

Zhao Heng said, "Tell me about it."

"I heard that Lin Qing, the remnant of the Lin family, has left Yongzhou and came to Qingzhou with Xu Fengnian one after the other. Now they have arrived at the shore of Chunshen Lake."

"You are very well informed."

Zhao Kai said sincerely: "If I don't have some strength, how dare Zhao Kai come to the mansion to offer advice?"

"Tell me about it."

"Prince Jing'an has been in charge of Qingzhou for twenty years. He has only recently gained full control of the situation and brought the might of the Qingzhou navy to intimidate Beiliang. I dare to ask, does the prince really think that with the military strength of Qingzhou, he can stop Beiliang's 300,000 cavalry?"

Zhao Heng turned up his sleeves embroidered with cloud patterns, his eyes half closed and half open, without making any comment.

Zhao Kai continued, "I also heard that Beiliang King Xu Xiao left Lingzhou for Tai'an. If everything goes well, he should have arrived in Yancheng by now. Why do you think he went to see the emperor?"

"Requesting troops for help?"

"Your Highness, you are joking. The court is eager to see Beiliang's strength weakened. Lin Qing and Qilin Zhenren killed Yuan Zuozong and Ye Xizhen, and deposed Chen Zhibao and Yao Jian. Prime Minister Zhang used this as an excuse to throw sand in Beiliang's army. If Xu Xiao asks for troops for help, wouldn't that be exactly what Prime Minister Zhang wants?"

"Then tell me, why did Xu Xiao go to Tai'an to meet the emperor?"

"For the imperial edict of hereditary succession." Zhao Kai looked at the man on the couch with his eyes slowly opening. "Back then, Xu Xiao made great military achievements in the east and west, and the late emperor only verbally agreed. Later, he deliberately downplayed the matter. Xu Xiao didn't say anything, but he had been secretly planning to let Xu Fengnian take over his position. Now the prince and the Lin family have a grudge, and Xu Fengnian led Lin Qing to the south. If Xiangfan City is robbed like Lingzhou, how will the court deal with it? Qilin Zhenren is the national teacher of Beimang. If he persuades the empress to raise troops in the northern border, how will the court respond?"

"You mean, Xu Xiao is using Lin Qing as a pawn? While the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits."

"Yes."

Zhao Xun interjected, "We have a strong army in Qingzhou. We have been training every day for twenty years. Why should we be afraid of a little Lin Tanhua? If Qilin Zhenren dares to come to Xiangfan City and make trouble, then he should stay and don't leave."

"Sir, why do you think Qilin Zhenren had the guts to enter the heart of Liyang and cause trouble?"

"why?"

"As far as I know, Qilin Zhenren possesses the superior Taoist art of transforming one qi into three pure ones, and has three clones. Even if these three clones are killed, as long as the original body is not destroyed, he will be safe."

Zhao Xun: “…”

Zhao Kai said, "It is extremely difficult for a Qilin to grow, and it is even more difficult to ascend to heaven than a dragon or a phoenix. No one would have thought that in just 20 years, the young Qilin of Daode Sect has grown into a Fire Qilin. It is not that the students are trying to inspire others. With the ability of a Fire Qilin, once it enters the city and causes chaos, it will be difficult to capture and kill it under the protection of Lin Qing and Qilin Zhenren, even if more troops are deployed, unless Your Majesty can ignore the casualties and watch Xiangfan City become a ruin." Zhao Heng said, "Then what do you think should be done?"

Zhao Kai said: "Students have three strategies: good, medium and bad."

"Appreciate further details."

"The best strategy is to divert the trouble back to let Lin Qing and Xu Fengnian kill each other. The middle strategy is to win over Lin Qing and use him for the prince. The worst strategy is that the Fire Kylin is afraid of water by nature, so the prince can send the navy to kill Lin Qing at Chunshen Lake."

Zhao Xun said, "Winning over Lin Qing? Zhao Kai, do you know what you are talking about?"

Zhao Kai didn't look at him, but smiled at Zhao Heng: "Your Highness, it's been a long time since the Lin family was destroyed, and Lin Qing has been sitting still until Xu Xiao and Xu Fengnian left Lingzhou. He took his beauty south at a leisurely pace. Does this mean he cares about the lives of the Lin family members?"

Zhao Xun said, "Didn't he collude with Qilin Zhenren to attack Lingzhou City to avenge my father?"

Zhao Kai said, "Can attacking Lingzhou City achieve the goal of revenge on the prince? This is just to deceive ordinary people. Which minister in the court doesn't know that the prince and Xu Xiao are not on good terms? The prince now knows that Qilin Zhenren has the great magical power of transforming into three pure ones. It is a lie that the Beimang State Master dare not go deep into the heart of Liyang. Is there a possibility that Lin Qing went to the Xu family, and Xu Xiao spread rumors to the outside world in order to get the prince involved?"

Zhao Heng pondered for a moment: "It is not difficult for Lin Qing to kill Xu Fengnian. He didn't kill him in Lingzhou City, but came to Qingzhou to kill him? Do you think it is possible?"

"If Lin Qing doesn't want to be killed, the prince can be killed."

Zhao Xun was confused. Just now he said that Lin Qing should kill Xu Fengnian, so how come it became his father who killed Xu Fengnian?

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"You mean to put the blame on Lin Qing?"

"It all depends on how the prince operates."

"Do you know the consequences of being exposed?"

"Xu Xiao took a risk and raised the flag of rebellion, causing chaos in the world." Zhao Kai smiled and said, "If the world was peaceful, how could the prince have the opportunity to make further progress? Only when the world is in turmoil can heroes be made."

"..."

Zhao Heng picked up the beeswax Buddhist beads on the table, glanced at the person in the painting, and remained silent.

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The 800-li Chunshen Lake is vast and misty, with clear water reaching the sky. At this moment, the autumn wind blows northward, shattering the flat mirror and scattering endless waves.

From Yongzhou to Huainan and Huaibei, there are many mountains and swamps, making marching difficult. If you take Qingzhou, you must pass Chunshen Lake. The Qingzhou navy under King Jing'an can, on the one hand, guard against the rebellion of Beiliang and Xu Xiao, and on the other hand, when Beimang breaks through the northern border, it can stop the grassland cavalry who are not good at water battles, and buy more reaction time for Liyang to deploy troops. When Liyang attacked Chu, if it had not sent out a surprise attack to bypass Chunshen Lake and compete in a water battle, the outcome would still be unknown.

Huanggua was wearing a short jacket and a skirt, holding a purple clay teapot filled with 80% Yunnan black tea that Green Ant had just stuffed into her hand. She stood on the wet deck in front of the big ship, facing the slightly fishy lake breeze, listening to her master's stories about Chunshen Lake. Zhao Fengya didn't care about these things, and asked the dark old man who was drying salted fish on the roof how to make them less choking to eat, and it would be best if they could be eaten as snacks. She was willing to exchange the dragon beard cakes she bought in Yingxiang City for this secret.

The secret to eating salted fish as a snack? Huanggua thought she was really crazy. She was thinking about how to hide her food reserves every day. She bought half a pound of dragon beard cakes in Yingxiang City. After eating for more than ten days, there was still some left. Thinking about the last time she was punished and not allowed to eat was five days ago when she passed the ghost gate on the north bank of Chunshen Lake. The master ordered her to accompany Lin Xiao to the market. Lin Xiao saw that the lame man made beautiful sugar figures, so he took a red pony and licked it. When Zhao Fengya took out money to pay the bill, she found that her purse had been stolen. She could only awkwardly give the red chi sword to the lame man and go back to the inn to find Green Ant to redeem it.

The first time she took money out to the street, she got into trouble. If she lost money today, she might lose a person tomorrow. How could she not be punished? According to Huanggua's thoughts, she should at least go hungry for six meals in two days to teach her a lesson, just like when she went hungry for nine meals in three days at the foot of Wudang Mountain. From then on, Her Royal Highness knew that food was hard to come by and every grain was hard-earned. She dared not leave any food.

Green Ant helped to say a few nice words, and the master looked indifferent, so Cucumber took a step back. Six meals of hunger in two days was reduced to three meals of hunger in one day. However, considering Zhao Fengya's energy in hiding the reserve food every day, the punishment should not be effective. Today, he went to the old fisherman to ask how to eat salted fish as snacks. It seemed that he was preparing for a rainy day and making preparations early. The 800-mile Chunshen Lake would take at least ten days to walk against the wind. If he was punished to starve again, at least he could go to the roof to steal salted fish to eat.

Kick, kick, kick.

Green Ant put on a yellow shawl on her shoulders and pushed open the cabin door and walked out. It was already autumn and they were sailing on the lake. The temperature difference between morning and night was quite large, so it was not possible to wear only a skirt as before.

Chu Pingsheng said, "Are you asleep?"

Green Ant nodded and walked to his side, letting the lake breeze blow her hair around, and raised her shawl lightly: "Don't you have any way to cure her illness?"

At the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, after Tanhualang rescued Lin Xiao, Zhao Fengya and Lao Xu carried her into the carriage. The first time she saw the girl, she felt that Lin Xiao was a little unconscious. She thought she was under Wu Lingsu's illusion. It was not until her master came down from the mountain and checked her in detail that she found out that it was not an illusion. Lin Xiao was unconscious due to severe mental stimulation and her intelligence was equivalent to that of an eight or nine-year-old girl.

Chu Pingsheng said: "Of course, it's very simple to cure her, just play a song."

"Then why don't you do it?"

"Why would you do it? If it were you, watching your father and brother die in front of you, unable to do anything and not even daring to cry, what would you choose if you had the chance to erase this memory?"

"..."

Green Ant didn't know how to answer this question. He thought about how Zhao Fengya hid the food reserves all over the cabin, and how Lin Xiao ate and drank his fill and searched the cabin, and then spread the spoils all over the floor. Seeing Zhao Fengya's angry face and giggling, he felt that he was right and it was good not to awaken her memory.

"Young Master, look, there seems to be a warship approaching in front of the left." Huanggua looked back at the ship where Xu Fengnian was sitting but did not find the target. When he turned around, he caught a glimpse of a warship floating on the southeast horizon.

(End of this chapter)