Anthology of Gu Long: End of the World, Bright Moon, Knife

Chapter 15 Peacock Villa (2)
He found the jar of wine, smashed the clay seal, and suddenly, with a flash of the knife, the jar of wine was also shattered.

Fu Hongxue said coldly: "Don't forget that your life is still mine. If you want to die, you have to let me do it."

Yan Nanfei said, "When are you going to do it?"

Fu Hongxue said: "When you are completely desperate."

Yan Nanfei said, "What hope do we have now?"

Fu Hongxue said: "As long as people are alive, there is hope!"

Yan Nanfei laughed loudly: "Okay, well said, as long as I have breath, I will never forget this sentence."

Fu Hongxue didn't even say a word anymore, but he seemed to suddenly become interested in the weapons on the wooden frames on the four walls.

He walked over slowly, looking at each weapon carefully.

The gloomy stone room gradually became stuffy. Qiu Shuiqing blew out the three long-burning lamps, and Fu Hongxue suddenly pulled out a bamboo whip from the wooden frame.

A bamboo whip made of pure steel should be extremely heavy, but it is not as heavy as it looks on the outside!
Fu Hongxue pondered, and asked, "How did this weapon come about?"

Qiu Shuiqing didn't answer directly, first found a very thick account book from the closet, blown away the dust, turned over more than ten pages, and then slowly said: "This is left by Hai Dongkai."

Fu Hongxue asked again: "Haidong opened in Jiangnan Thunderbolt Hall?"

Qiu Shuiqing nodded and said: "The firearms of the Thunderbolt Hall were originally hidden weapons to deter the world, but after the appearance of Peacock Ling, their momentum weakened, so Haidong mobilized the crowd to attack and destroy Peacock Villa, but unfortunately he still If you didn't make a move, you would have died under the peacock's feathers."

Fu Hongxue's eyes suddenly shone, he repeated, and asked again: "He died under the peacock's feathers before he made a move?"

Qiu Shuiqing nodded again, and said: "Although that happened more than a hundred years ago, it is clearly recorded on it."

Ming Yue Xin said: "I've also heard of this martial arts senior, I remember his nickname seems to be Thunderbolt Whip!"

Fu Hongxue nodded slowly, and started walking along the stone wall again!

He held the knife in his right hand and the whip in his left hand, but closed his eyes. Although his walking posture was strange, the expression on his face was as if an old monk had fallen into meditation.

Everyone held their breath again, looking at him, the stone room became as silent as a tomb again.

Suddenly, the knife flashed.

This Sky Saber light was much brighter than anything Yan Nanfei had seen before.

This knife Fu Hongxue obviously used all his strength, although his eyes were still closed, this knife happened to penetrate into the crack between the stones on the wall.

He didn't see it with his eyes, he saw it with his heart!
When he stabbed out, he completely sank into the stone wall.

Fu Hongxue took a long breath, and then drew out the blade. When he finally exhaled this breath, the bamboo whip in his left hand had already been thrust out, forcefully inserted into the crack opened by the blade.

At this moment, there was a loud "boom", and the bamboo whip burst in the stone wall.

The stone wall made of six-foot-square stones also burst, and the broken stones flew like rain.

Then everything returned to calm, and the complete stone wall was broken into pieces.

Fu Hongxue's saber was already in its sheath, and he just said lightly: "The firearms of the Thunderbolt Hall in the south of the Yangtze River are indeed unparalleled in the world."

Qiu Shuiqing, Ming Yuexin, and Yan Nanfei looked at him quietly, eyes full of respect: "How do you know there is a firearm in this bamboo whip?"

"I don't know!" Fu Hongxue said, "I just think it shouldn't be so light. So it's probably empty inside, and I happened to think of Haidongkai."

The battle of Haidong's night attack on Peacock Villa was originally one of the famous battles in the Jianghu.

At least seven of the most famous [-] battles in Jianghu took place in Peacock Villa!
Peacock Villa has been miraculously standing intact.But as soon as they went out, they found that the Peacock Villa, which had been destroyed by the fire and was still intact, had turned into rubble—the nine-fold courtyard, 36 towers, and the foundation of eighty miles had all been reduced to rubble!
The blood was not dry yet, Qiu Shuiqing stood like this among the blood-stained rubble.

Eighty miles of foundation, five hundred lives, and thirty generations of fame have all been destroyed now!
It was also destroyed like a miracle!
Qiu Shuiqing didn't move, and didn't shed tears. This kind of hatred can't be washed away by tears.

Now he just wants to bleed!

But he couldn't see the person who caused the disaster. The sky was dark and the ground was barren. Apart from the four of them, there seemed to be no other life in the world.

Yan Nanfei stood far away, his expression seemed more miserable than that of Qiu Shuiqing.

Fu Hongxue had been staring at him for a long time, and said coldly: "You are blaming yourself, do you think this is your fault?"

Yan Nanfei nodded slowly, wanted to speak a few times, but held back, the conflict in his heart made him even more painful.

He finally couldn't bear it, and suddenly said: "This is the third time."

Fu Hongxue said, "The third time?"

Yan Nanfei said: "The first time was Phoenix Collection, the second time was Ni Family Garden, and this is the third time."

He spoke quickly, because he had made up his mind to tell all the secrets.

"In today's world, the person with the highest martial arts is not you, but Gong Ziyu." He said frankly, "Although your sword is almost invincible, you have weaknesses."

"What about you?" Fu Hongxue asked.

"What I practice is the Heart Sword and the Mind Sword. They are omnipotent. That is the highest level of swordsmanship. If you practice it well, you will be invincible in the world."

"Can't you practice?"

"This kind of swordsmanship is also like a door with thirteen locks. I have obtained all the keys, but after opening twelve locks, I can't find the last key."

Yan Nanfei smiled wryly, and said: "So every time I make a move, I always feel that I can't do what I want. Sometimes when I hit a sword, it is obvious that I will hit it, but at the last moment, it misses by an inch."

Fu Hongxue said, "How is Gong Ziyu?"

Yan Nanfei said: "Not only is his martial arts invincible, but he is also impeccable. In the whole world, perhaps there are only two things that can deal with him."

Fu Hongxue said, "The same peacock feathers?"

Yan Nanfei said: "There is another one, "The Ode to Great Compassion on Yin and Yang at Crossover between Heaven and Earth"."

This book records the seven most vicious martial arts in the world since ancient times. It is said that when the book was completed, blood would rain from the sky, ghosts would cry at night, and when the author wrote the last word, he also vomited blood and died.

Of course, Fu Hongxue had heard of its legends: "But after this book was written, it disappeared, and no one in the Jianghu has ever seen it!"

Yan Nanfei said: "This book has indeed been lost for a long time, but it did appear again recently."

Fu Hongxue said, "Where did it appear?"

Yan Nanfei said, "Phoenix Collection."

He went to Phoenix Collection a year ago just to find this book, and Fu Hongxue happened to be there too.

Yan Nanfei said: "At that time, I thought that you must have gone there for this book, and that you were probably bought by Gong Ziyu, so I made a move on you."

But he lost.

Although he wanted to kill Fu Hongxue, Fu Hongxue didn't kill him, that's why these tragic, mysterious and sinister stories happened.

Yan Nanfei said: "After I fought with you, my mind and body were exhausted, and it took two hours before I could return to Phoenix Collection."

At that time, Fenghuangji had turned into a dead town, and it had undoubtedly been looted by Gong Ziyu's subordinates!
But he didn't succeed, that's why the second tragedy happened.

Yan Nanfei said: "That morning, four of the Ni family's seven heroes had been to the Phoenix Collection. They came and left in a hurry. They didn't attract anyone's attention, but I couldn't help but want to find them and ask After inquiring about the news, I didn’t expect that my visit would turn the courtyard that they have managed thirteen generations into an abandoned garden.”

He thought for a while, and then added: "On that day, I saw Ming Yuexin for the first time, and it was less than five days since she moved."

Fu Hongxue clenched his fists tightly, and after a long time, he said slowly, "Although you haven't seen this "Ode to the Great Compassion" until now, you don't know how many people lost their families because of it."

Yan Nanfei also clenched his fists and said, "That's why I want to kill Gong Ziyu to avenge these people."

Fu Hongxue said: "So he must kill you."

They didn't talk any more, because at this time Qiu Shuiqing had already walked over slowly.

His face was still expressionless, and even his piercing eyes had become empty and dull.

He stood in front of them like a wooden man for a long time before he murmured dreamily: "The members of the Qiu family are all dead, but their bodies are all there, only one person is missing."

Fu Hongxue said, "Gongsun Tu?"

Qiu Shuiqing nodded, and said: "It's not easy to kill all the members of Qiu's family. They must have suffered casualties, but they have all been taken away!"

Yan Nanfei couldn't help but said, "These people always do things cleanly and neatly, leaving no trace."

Fu Hongxue said: "But so many people will not disappear suddenly. No matter how they go, there will always be some clues left behind."

Qiu Shuiqing looked at him, with gratitude in his eyes, and suddenly said: "My wife is sick, and I have a woman in the city, she is pregnant with Liujia now, if she gives birth to a son, it will be our Qiu Shui The only offspring of the family."

He continued slowly: "Her surname is Zhuo, her name is Zhuo Yuzhen, and her father's name is Zhuo Donglai, who is an escort."

Fu Hongxue listened quietly, listening to every sentence carefully.

Qiu Shuiqing let out a long breath, and said: "I should take care of these things myself, but I can't do it anymore. If I endure the humiliation and steal my life, I will have no face to see our ancestors of the Qiu family again when I come to the Nine Springs."

Yan Nanfei cried out and said sharply, "You can't die, don't you want revenge?"

Qiu Shuiqing suddenly smiled, laughing more tragically than crying: "Revenge? You want me to take revenge? Do you know what kind of person Gong Ziyu is? Do you know how powerful he is?"

Of course Yan Nanfei knew, no one could know more than him.

Except for the Seven Great Sword Sects and the Beggars' Gang with a long history, at least half of the other 39 most powerful organizations in Jianghu have a very close relationship with Gong Ziyu, and at least eight or nine of them are secretly governed by Gong Ziyu.

Not to mention how many first-class masters in the arena have been bribed by him. Among his personal guards, there are one or two people whose martial arts are even more unfathomable.

Yan Nanfei was about to tell what he knew, but Qiu Shuiqing was no longer ready to listen!
He was still standing motionless, a stream of blood spattered out of the seven orifices in his ears and nose at the same time.

When he fell, the first cock crow was heard in the distance.

Peacock Villa is surrounded by mountains on two sides and faces water on the other.The mountain was so high that people with casualties would never be able to climb it, and the water was so fast that even a sheepskin raft could not cross it.

The guards in the Peacock Villa are strictly guarded, and there are many masters. If you want to wipe them out in one fell swoop, you need at least thirty or fifty first-rate masters.

Even if these people came from across the river and over the mountains, there is only one retreat ahead when they leave!
There was a dense forest in front of him, and the road was wide, but there were no new ruts and horse tracks, and there were no bloodstains or footprints at all.

Ming Yuexin gritted her teeth and said, "No matter what, we must find the third person today."

Fu Hongxue said, "Who else is there besides Zhuo Yuzhen and Gongsun Tu?"

Mingyue Xin said: "Kaoque, I have subdued him and asked him to go back to undercover. He will definitely be able to tell us some clues."

Yan Nanfei said coldly: "It's a pity that every clue he mentioned may be a trap."

Mingyue Xin said: "Trap?"

Yan Nanfei said: "He is afraid of you, but I guarantee that he must be more afraid of Gong Ziyu. If he hadn't leaked our secret, how could Gong Ziyu find Peacock Villa and come by such a coincidence."

Mingyue Xin said bitterly: "If your deduction is correct, I will find him even more."

Fu Hongxue said: "But the first person we are looking for is not him, but Zhuo Yuzhen."

No one knew about Zhuo Yuzhen, but Zhuo Donglai was a very famous person—a famous alcoholic.

Now he was already drunk and passed out in the shade of the trees in the yard. However, when he heard Qiu Shuiqing's name, he jumped up and cursed: "This old bastard, I regard him as a friend, but he is stealing me behind my back." My daughter has been tricked—”

They didn't gag him, the harder he scolded, the more he could prove the truth of the matter, as long as he could save Qiu Shuiqing this bit of flesh and blood, it wouldn't matter if he scolded for another three days and three nights.

But his daughter couldn't take it anymore, and he scolded her away. There was a letter pressed on the dressing table in her boudoir, and a little girl with long braids lay on the dressing table and cried non-stop.

What was written in the letter was: "My daughter is unfilial and has insulted the family. For the sake of this piece of meat in her stomach, she cannot atone for her sin with death..."

What the little girl said was: "So the young lady had no choice but to leave, and I couldn't hold back."

"You don't know where she went?"

"If I knew, I would have looked for it long ago, why would I stay here."

If there is a drunk in the house, no one wants to stay, so they have to go!
But they still have to find Zhuo Yuzhen, the crowd is vast, where do you tell them to look for it?
Ming Yuexin suddenly said: "There is a place where you can definitely find it."

Yan Nanfei immediately asked, "Where is it?"

Ming Yue Xin said: "Since her father didn't know about this, Qiu Shuiqing must have prepared a place for them to have a tryst on weekdays."

Even the owners of those small cloth shops can find a charming golden house outside, let alone the owner of the Peacock Villa.

It's a pity this place must be very secretive. "Qiu Shuiqing has always been a very cautious person, who else knows about such things except themselves?"

"There must be someone who knows!"

"Who?"

"That little girl with big braids." Ming Yuexin said very confidently, "Sometimes the relationship between the lady and the maid is like that of sisters. If I do such a thing, I will definitely not be able to hide it from Xing Xing!"

Xing Xing is her personal girl.

"The little girl has a ghostly look on her face. Just now, she was just showing us a show. She will definitely look for it secretly in less than half an hour."

She was right.

Sure enough, less than half an hour later, the little girl slipped out of the back door secretly, and walked into an alley on the left.

Ming Yuexin stared at her quietly, while Fu Hongxue and Yan Nanfei stared at Ming Yuexin.

"It's always inconvenient for an unmarried girl with yellow flowers to move around, so the place where they meet must be not far from her home!"

Ming Yuexin is not wrong about this point, the place is indeed in an alley outside the two alleys, with high walls and narrow gates, and a quiet small courtyard. Pots of rose flowers.

The door was unlatched, as if to wait for the little girl, she looked around twice, pushed the door quietly and walked in, and then bolted the door.

The rose flowers are fragrant on the wall, the leaves of the ginkgo tree are rustling by the wind, but there is no sound in the yard.

"You go in first, we'll wait outside!"

Ming Yuexin had known for a long time that these two men would never break into a woman's private house casually, because they were real men, men's men.

They watched her jump into the high wall, and waited for a long time. The rose flowers were still so fragrant, but there was an exclamation in the quiet courtyard.

It is the voice of Mingyue Xin.

Ming Yuexin is by no means a woman who is easily frightened.

The shade of the ginkgo tree was like a cover, and the hut was as dark as dusk. The little girl with the big braid was lying on the table. A big black braid was wrapped around her throat, and her hands and feet were already cold.

Ming Yuexin's siblings were also icy and cold: "We came one step too late."

The little girl had been strangled to death, and Zhuo Yuzhen had disappeared.

No one would use their own braids to strangle themselves. Who did this?
Yan Nanfei clenched his fists: "The affair between Qiu Shuiqing and Zhuo Yuzhen seems to be not a secret that no one else knows."

So Gong Ziyu's subordinates arrived one step earlier than them!
Fu Hongxue's face was pale, but there were red threads in his eyes.

He was looking, and he hoped the striker had made a mistake in his haste this time.

As long as there is a little negligence, as long as a little clue is left, he will never miss it!
This time he almost missed it, because the clue was too obvious.

There was a rhombic mirror on the dressing table. Someone wrote three words on the mirror with rouge. The handwriting was very scrawled. It was obvious that Zhuo Yuzhen left it in haste, and the person who kidnapped her didn't pay attention.

Why do people pay less attention to obvious things?

Blood-red rouge, blood-red characters: "Ziyang Temple!"

Ziyang Temple is a very common name. There are many Taoist temples called Ziyang Temple, and it happens that there is only one in this city.

"How did she know they were going to take her to Ziyang Temple?"

"Maybe I overheard it. Maybe there is a Taoist priest from Ziyang Temple among those people. She grew up here, so of course she recognizes it."

No matter what, they have to go to see it anyway, even if it is a trap, they have to go.

In the courtyard of Ziyang Temple, there was actually a ginkgo tree covered with thick shade. The hall was filled with smoke, and no one could be seen, but as soon as they reached the backyard, they heard human voices.

In the deserted yard, the cold voice said only two words: "Please come in!"

The voice came from a cloud room on the left, and the people inside seemed to be waiting for them.

It seems that this is indeed a trap.But when have they been afraid of other people's traps?
Without even thinking about it, Fu Hongxue walked over. The door was ajar, and it opened with a light push.

There are four people in the room.

As long as he thinks it should be done, as long as he has a knife in his hand, even if there are thousands of troops waiting in front, he will never back down, let alone four people!

Among the four people, one was drinking, two were playing chess, and a boy in white was manicuring his nails with a knife.

There was no lamp in the room yet, and the young man's face looked like his knife, white and blue, terribly green.

Of the two players playing chess, one was a Taoist priest, his beard and hair were all white, but his face was as ruddy as a baby's, the other was dressed in green and white socks, and his attire was simple, with a finger wrench in his hand, which was a priceless Hanyu.

Fu Hongxue's pupils suddenly contracted, and a strange blush suddenly appeared on his pale face.

Because the person who was drinking with his head down just now is slowly raising his face at this moment.

Seeing this person's face, Ming Yuexin's hands and feet immediately became cold again.

With a face full of knife marks, sharp eyes and eagle nose, it is the "Immortal Eagle" Gongsun Tu!

He was also looking at them, with a cruel smile in his sharp eyes, and said, "Please sit down."

Sure enough, there were still three empty chairs in the cloud room, and Fu Hongxue actually sat down.

Before the fierce battle where life and death depend on a moment, it is good to be able to save a little more energy.

So Yan Nanfei and Ming Yuexin also sat down, and they also knew that the moment of life and death had come.

(End of this chapter)