The first-level Zhaohua Thousand-level Hall

Chapter 53 Baicao's finger was delivered to the door

Killing people to kill people, Xu Qingluo only thought of these four words for a moment.

It seems that this matter is definitely related to the Yang family, and Yang Yunping is also involved.

It's not surprising when you think about it, although Yang Yunping is young now, he is very good at doing this kind of secret affairs behind the scenes. The last time he went to Yang's mansion, not only did he not let Yang Yunping and Cao Ping's mother and son succeed, but he ruthlessly beat them. Together with them, Cao Ping is still reciting scriptures at the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha in Qiandeng Nunnery. It would be strange if Yang Yunping didn't take revenge on her.

It seems that just taking care of Cao Ping is really not enough, Xu Qingluo's face is full of coldness, and there is murderous intent spreading in his eyes.

Baicao was frightened by Xu Qingluo's words of killing and killing, and her face turned pale. Although she has grown a lot in the past few days and learned a lot, she is really just an ordinary teenage girl Well, not everyone has experienced so many things like Xu Qingluo and has the chance to do it all over again.

"Miss, is there something wrong? Why—" It involved killing and silence.

Baicao called Xu Qingluo tremblingly, but the other person's face was extremely cold, which made her afraid and worried.

Too many things have happened in these days, and Baicao feels more and more that the young lady who has served her since she was a child has changed too much, which makes her feel a little strange, but she is still more worried about Xu Qingluo, worried that the other party will provoke some terrible people, terrible things.

Xu Qingluo regained consciousness and saw Baicao's anxious expression, she patted Baicao's hand comfortingly: "These things have nothing to do with you, you just need to do what I told you to do."

"hiss."

Baicao gave a soft cry.

Xu Qingluo lowered his head and found several blisters on the opponent's hands.

"what happened!"

Xu Qingluo wanted to check Baicao's pulse right away. With the plague being rampant, any symptoms made her feel nervous. She was afraid that Baicao would get the plague, before she found a cure for the plague.

"It's okay, miss. I accidentally burned myself. When I came in, I was bumped and splashed with hot water. I'll go back and apply some ointment."

Baicao looked at Xu Qingluo's nervous appearance, and the strangeness in her heart slowly dissipated. No matter what, she was always her young lady, and she was always very kind to her. Giving her a bite of food when she was a child didn't make her starve to death. Miss, she just needs to listen to the lady: "Miss, there is another matter that you asked me to inquire about."

Xu Qingluo's heart was shocked: "Is there any clue?"

The last time she heard Langwei say that Jia Ye came back from the Great Victory in Nohara, she already had a plan in her heart. She was afraid that Jia Ye would cultivate power behind Lang Cheng's back like in the previous life, so she asked Baicao to go around and find out. Has anyone seen strange people in this remote and uninhabited place in Huai County?

That person Jia Ye acted cautiously, and he would definitely put these people by his side before he could rest assured.

This point, Xu Qingluo is very sure.

"I went to the old head Liu who was on the shift, and asked him if he had seen any strange people or encountered strange things recently. He told me that at the third shift on the eve of the fifth day, he met a long man who was different from us. The same person, said to be red-haired and red-faced, looks scary, at that time he thought he had encountered a monster, so he ran away desperately, and even lost his food."

"Later, Old Liu thought that he must be from a foreign race, so he would be different from us, and even scolded that guy a few times. I don't know what he did at night. In short, he was either committing crimes or harboring evil intentions. "

Baicao told Xu Qingluo about her investigation in detail.

Xu Qingluo's five fingers were clenched quietly: "Are you red-haired and red-faced?"

She muttered these four words, red hair and red face, such obvious characteristics that no one can imitate, isn't it the characteristics of the Nohara tribe?

The people there are all red-haired, and they are keen to paint their faces, especially the warriors in the tribe, they like to dye their faces all red, saying that they are similar to the gods worshiped by their tribe, in order to obtain bless.

The warriors of the Nohara tribe happened to be the ones that Kasyapa could command now. If he had defeated the Nohara tribe like in his previous life, he would have taken all the warriors of their tribe for his own use.

Sure enough, Kasyapa was not so clean before and after this incident, and he may not be one of the direct participants in the plan.

"Baicao, did you ask that old man Liu where he met that foreigner and what he was doing at that time? Did you meet that person again later?"

Xu Qingluo suppressed the murderous intent that was about to gushe out from the bottom of his heart, and asked calmly.

"No, I haven't seen it again, just that one time, the most important thing is that no one dared to go out because of the severe plague in the past two days, but Old Liu said that he was the alien who he saw near the gate of the city. He didn't know what the other party was going to do, and he happened to bump into that foreigner when he was about to leave."

When Baicao answered Xu Qingluo's question, she also vaguely felt that something was wrong, and she thought about every detail seriously.

City gate?It was the night when the plague broke out five days ago, what does it mean that the Nohara tribe under Jiaye appeared at the gate of the city, Xu Qingluo stood up: "Baicao, go to the county government and ask General Lang to come over. Just say that I have something important to discuss with him."

Xu Qingluo said so.

This person, Jiaye, can no longer be pampered, let alone slowly alienate Langcheng. If Jiaye dares to send people to directly participate in such things as releasing the plague, then his temperament is more sinister than Xu Qingluo imagined. , and more importantly, Kassapa might not have that much patience anymore, she was worried that he would attack Lang Sheng directly.

Baicao had already gone out, and Xu Qingluo always felt inexplicably uneasy.

After thinking about it, this time, Baicao was only asked to report the letter, and the county government is also heavily guarded, so nothing should happen.

It's just that when the time passed bit by bit, the night had completely shrouded, and the herbs hadn't come back, Xu Qingluo couldn't sit still anymore, she put down the medical books and herbs in her hand, and picked up a cloak I want to go out.

The county government is a little far away from the medicine building, but such a long time is enough for two round trips.

Suddenly a bright light flashed in front of her eyes outside the window, and with a sound of duh, Xu Qingluo turned her head sideways and saw a silver dart nailed to the doorpost, her eyes moved down, and then froze.

In the next moment, Xu Qing's face was full of uncontrollable shock, anger, hatred and worry, because there was something under the silver dart, a piece of paper, a finger, a slender finger with a little blister.

The finger she had touched with her own hand not long ago.

"Baicao."

Xu Qingluo's voice was choked, there was a shadowy darkness outside the window, and there was no one. She stepped forward suddenly to take down the silver dart, and the moment her hand was about to touch the silver dart, she stopped.

Although silver products can be tested for poison, not all poisons can be detected, and many poisons do not change color when they encounter silver.

Xu Qingluo gritted his teeth and took out a handkerchief from his body, which wrapped the silver dart, and pulled it out forcefully.

The silver dart penetrated too deep into the wood, Xu Qingluo staggered back two steps, the finger was still stained with bright red blood, and the paper was smeared with blood, like a red plum falling on the white snow, the incision was smooth , it should have been chopped off by a sharp blade, and the time should not be long.

Xu Qingluo carefully placed her fingers on the table, closed her eyes, and opened them in a resolute calm, and opened the note.

Inside is a road map, with eight words marked on the back, if you want to survive, go alone.

She recognized where the marked end point was at a glance on this road map, because she had only been there four days ago, so how could she not be familiar with it? That farm, where all the cattle and horses were the source of the plague, infected most of the people in Huai County.

The matter was obvious, she sent Baicao to the county government to find Lang Sheng, but the other party probably robbed Baicao on the way, and now he came here to threaten her with Baicao.

Xu Qingluo knew that it would be bad if she went alone, but she knew better that there must be someone watching her nearby, maybe that person is watching her every move outside the window, she dare not act rashly, she can't make fun of Baicao's life.

Pressing his hands heavily on the table, taking a deep breath, Xu Qingluo had forced himself to calm down, then walked to the medicine cabinet at the back, squatted down, and opened the bottommost grid from the left, which contained the things she had prepared these days All the things that can cope with some emergencies, put the small porcelain medicine bags into the sleeves, belts, and arms by category.

After thinking for a while, Xu Qingluo walked to the side of the bed and took away the pillow. Underneath were two daggers, a dark iron dagger and an ordinary old dagger, all given to her by Lang Sheng.

Inserting the black iron dagger with its sheath into his waist, covering it with the side skirt, Xu Qingluo walked towards the back of the pharmacy.

Behind the pharmacy is a large yard, where several kinds of common herbs are planted. Because of the heavy snow in winter, most of the herbs are withered, but compared to other places, you can still find some greenery sporadically.

In addition to medicinal herbs, there are other things raised in the backyard of the medicine building, such as——

Xu Qingluo walked into the pigeon house, and hearing the cuckoos, it seemed a little scary in the silent night.

She reached out to select a pigeon from the pigeon cage, and she saw the eyes of the pigeon. The small eyes were very dazed, and she smiled wryly: "Although you are not specially trained pigeons, I only have hope now." It's on you little thing."

Xu Qingluo lowered his voice, took out the circuit diagram stained with Baicao's blood from his bosom, stretched out his index finger to his lips, and bit it hard.

Before a bit of blood spread in her mouth, Xu Qingluo had already scribbled a few words on the road map with the blood on her fingertips, rolled it up, tied it to the paw of the dull carrier pigeon, and stretched out her hand to stroke it. Down the dove's snow-white and soft feathers: "Please."

The woman raised her hands to the sky, and the instinct of flying caused the pigeon to raise its wings and go to the distance.

These pigeons were raised in Xu's house at first. Although they have not been specially trained, the pigeon's home instinct should be believed, and it can only be believed.

Xu Qingluo ran to the stable, reached out and took off the horse's reins, and pulled the horse towards the back door.

There was no one on the street, it was deserted, and even the patients were asleep because of their illness, Xu Qingluo looked back at the pharmacy and got on his horse.

With a soft thud, the girl's horse's reins were lifted upwards, and the next moment the horse raised its hooves and started to run. Under the cold moonlight, deep horseshoe marks were imprinted on the muddy snow.

A man in black stayed until the girl and the horse were all gone, quietly appeared at the back door of the medicine building, and whistled.

Another man in black appeared in front of him leading two horses. The two looked at each other. Neither of them said much, but turned on the horses and headed in different directions.

A single horseshoe print that was barely recognizable on the street has become a mess of many horseshoe prints.

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Xu Qingluo leaned over and put most of her body on the horse's back. She ran so fast that the horse threw up snowflakes. From a distance, it seemed that her whole body was wrapped in a cloud of white mist generally.

It's cold, the body is cold, and the heart is cold.

Xu Qingluo knew that her going would be bad or bad, but Baicao had been with her for so many years, and she couldn't watch Baicao die anyway. She was a shy and timid woman, but she died for her. It was her indiscriminate love for Yang Yunping that killed Baicao, and made Baicao die in that filthy Yang Mansion. She cannot repeat the same mistakes in this life, she I don't want anyone who cares about me, who cares about me, to die.

"drive!"

Hurry up, no matter how fast, Xu Qingluo whipped the horse's buttocks again. She can't be slow, she can only be fast. If she is slow, she doesn't know what terrible things those people will do to Baicao again.

The cold wind blew on Xu Qingluo's face and body, as if cutting with a knife, the pain was extremely painful.

The city gate was in sight, and Xu Qingluo saw the city gate wide open. This was almost impossible, because apart from Lang Sheng's order, the city gate had been closed all the time to prevent the plague from leaking out and the hearts of the people were distracted. of.

It seemed that the incident tonight was deeper than she had imagined. Xu Qingluo rode all the way out of the city gate, leaving the county town behind her far behind.

The valley where the farm is located is getting closer and closer. After the heavy snow melts, the ground is muddy and the road is bumpy. The horses under him are already a little unstable. The horses prepared in the pharmacy are only used for ordinary transportation. Not the kind of military horse that Lang Sheng usually rides.

There was a horse neighing, and the next moment, the horse that was running hard gave a heavy pause, as if it had hit something.

Before Xu Qingluo could react, her body fell into the half-melted snow along with the horse's front hoof.

The horse knelt down on the ground, mourning and neighing, but Xu Qingluo rolled three or four times in a row in the muddy snow, and hit a rock with a bang, and the place where she rolled was pressed out. There was a large indentation, and there was a faint bloodstain on the stone.

Xu Qingluo clutched her shoulders, and struggled to get up from the snow, her whole body felt as if she had been hit hard, and the pain was severe.

The shoulder should be dislocated, Xu Qingluo exerted force with one hand, but he couldn't exert that much force at all, it just made the pain worse.

Xu Qingluo thought for a while, looking at the mud under her body, she could see the faint land below.

Gritting his teeth, he slammed his body down heavily. Accompanied by more severe pain, there was a crackling sound, which was the dislocated arm was connected.

Xu Qingluo's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and there was more redness on the shoulder. The impact was too hard just now, not only dislocated, but also bruised.

The cold wind howled past, and Xu Qingluo's whole body was covered in mud, snow, water and blood, and she was in a panic. She tried to stand up.

The next moment he fell back heavily, and when he looked down, his ankle was clearly swollen.

Xu Qingluo smiled wryly, this is really a leak in the house and it was raining all night, she stretched out her hand to hold her ankle, and was about to check it.

She heard footsteps, not someone's footsteps.

Four tall and strong men walked towards her step by step on the muddy snow water. Xu Qingluo raised her eyes, her face was dirty and her hair was all messed up, like a crazy woman, but her There is a hidden cruelty in the eyes.

"Bring her back."

One of the men, who seemed to be the leader, ordered that he stood at a distance and watched from a distance, and guarded his surroundings.

The remaining three people silently approached Xu Qingluo.

Xu Qingluo just supported the muddy snow with one hand, as if he didn't react or was too scared to move.

The three men approaching her obviously let down their vigilance, and one of them bent over and reached out to grab her shoulder.

A ray of dark light flashed across, a scream came out, blood was flying, Xu Qingluo held a black iron dagger in his hand, blood was dripping on the dagger, and the man who leaned over to grab her just now, covered his neck and stared round Looking in disbelief, he fell to the ground with a slam, and the muddy snow water splashed half a foot high, and the dagger in Xu Qingluo's hand slid across another man's belly.

That man cursed angrily, and let the blood overflow from his stomach, but he kicked Xu Qingluo's heart.

Xu Qingluo managed to avoid his heart. His shoulder, which was already injured, was kicked heavily. With a muffled grunt, he moved half a person's distance sideways. The dagger also fell to the side.

She heard the man's yelling again, she couldn't understand what the other person said, these people were of foreign race, she lay there on her side, facing the murderous look of the remaining three men who were on guard all over, suddenly curled her lips smiled.

This time, all three of them came to the front, and before the leading man realized something was wrong, she threw out the medicine bottles that Xu Qingluo took in his hand just now while he was rolling.

Those tall men were very vigilant and very skilled. They subconsciously dodged the things Xu Qingluo threw, but if nothing happened if they just dodged, Xu Qingluo's ability was too low.

The small porcelain bottle shattered, and the cold wind swept up the powder quickly.

Before they could react, the three men's faces were ashen, their breathing was difficult, and their bodies were stiff. They made loud voices, as if they wanted to say something, and they grabbed their throats tightly, and they pulled out bruises, but I didn't realize it, I just kept grabbing.

"boom."

The injured man fell down first, his eyes were wide open, but he escaped his breath alive.

The second man just insisted on taking two steps towards Xu Qingluo, but he couldn't take another step forward, and fell to the ground with his head thrown up.

Only the third man, the leading man just now, in the agony of suffocation, pulled out the dagger from his waist and slammed it at Xu Qingluo.

When the short knife was shot, the blood of the third man surged up with force, and the poisonous gas quickly spread all over his body, and he hit the stone with a loud bang.

The short knife came towards the front door, and there was a sharp sound of wind. Xu Qingluo's body couldn't move at all. At the last moment, she suddenly raised one of her arms, which was the only strength she had.

Exchange an arm for a life without hesitation.

With a bang, the short knife that had touched Xu Qingluo's arm was slammed open. At the same time, Xu Qingluo's neck hurt, and her eyes opened wide: there are still people.

Unwilling to close their eyes, two men came step by step from the shadows, one was tall and the other was thin.

"She is a good woman."

Some awkward Central Plains dialect, with sincere admiration, the tall man clapped his hands and sighed: "Dumu and the four of them are all warriors with one against ten. I didn't expect that they were all killed by such a little girl."

It was a murder. He had been standing there watching just now, and he had naturally seen Xu Qingluo's strategy. Seriously, he couldn't win against her alone, but he didn't stand at a distance from the beginning, and the other three Separated from each other, Xu Qingluo can't directly apply poison, her poison can only kill with one blow.

Therefore, Xu Qingluo killed one of them by surprise and wounded another, arousing the anger of Dumu and the others, and drew the remaining three people over, and then used poison.

The tricks are not complicated, what is more complicated is Xu Qingluo's calm and calm actions, her ignorance of the pain, and her decision to cut off her arms to save her life: "It's ruthless, hotter than our women in the Western Regions. The woman I like is tight."

The thin man, who was faintly behind the tall man, saw that the other party admired a girl who killed four subordinates so much, and even said something he liked, but he was a little dissatisfied: "Such a woman is clearly cruel and merciless. The plan has been sabotaged by her again and again, according to my opinion, she should be killed directly—”

The thin man's voice stopped abruptly, because of the eyes of the tall and strong man, he silently lowered his head: "The sect master's opinion is naturally extraordinary, it's just a mistake."

It's just that on the lowered face that looked handsome and noble, there was resentment twisted.

He is the third prince of the Central Plains court. When he obeys the orders of a barbarian, he is extremely hateful. When he uses these Western Regions to regain his military power.
The tall man glanced at the third prince with his head bowed down, a smile appeared on his lips, and without saying anything, he walked slowly to Xu Qingluo's side.

"Sect master, be careful of poison."

The third prince subconsciously shouted.

The door master's robe sleeves fluttered, and a strong force blew past, like a howling wind, the snowflakes and muddy water around Xu Qingluo turned over with the corpses, and Xu Qingluo lay motionless on the spot alone. The control of skill can be seen.

"If you want to subdue a mare with venomous thorns, you have to be stronger than them. The Third Highness is making such a fuss."

The door owner smiled.

(End of this chapter)