Reckless

2021-12-09

  Chapter 298 Flower Hairpin    "Which place to check first?"

"According to the clouded leopard Taoist... …'S whereabouts check, um… The activities are the most around Xuefeng Mountain, first go to Yunjiang on the upper reaches of Zhuohe…"

"Okay, the other party must be on guard, do you want to pretend to be?"

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"Isn't your sword...very difficult to deal with? It said that you want this Fairy... to taste your Sword Art..."

"Fellow Daoist Shangguan, don't you Playing with fire."

"No...no meal?"

? ! I   don't know how long time has passed, in a cabin with closed doors and windows... it's hard to say a word.

Zuo Lingquan sits half-lying on the couch, cultivation with a cross-legged attitude, and at the same time talks about the next itinerary earnestly.

Opposite, she quietly turned her back to the soft couch, stuffed her ears with cotton, holding the sky escape card in her hand, and lifted it up and swayed around.

Although Jingxuan wanted to join the cultivation, she did what she said and did not forget what she promised. After taking the opportunity to hit Lingye's buttocks twice, she asked Shangguan Old Ancestor to see if she was busy .

Shangguan Old Ancestor was communicating with Sword Emperor City, investigating the recent developments in Northern Xinjiang, and he was really busy. After seeing this, he had to withdraw from the team and watch the battle next to him.

But there are some things that you can't stand just looking at them with your eyes.

Jing Xi was made impatient and afraid to watch it, but let’s go outside, and there was a suspicion of letting the man out to avoid it, so she blocked her ears and didn’t listen or watch. Stay in front of you too.

Zuo Lingquan was not left in the cold, but when she saw her dangling around with the sky escape sign, she asked:

"Jingquan, what are you doing?"

Tang Jingxun did not look back, whispered;

"Contact Princess, how can I enjoy this kind of drama alone? I have to let Princess also see how her imperial empress is privately. ......"

"Eh......"

There is no Tianyun Pagoda in Northern Xinjiang, so naturally it can't be connected.

After a long time, the speed of the ship started to slow down.

The fight in the cabin was over. Shangguan Lingye stood up and flicked his jade finger to dissipate the lovely smell on his body and put on a gorgeous dress.

After Zuo Lingquan tidied up, he comforted the almost acidic silence before opening the doors and windows and came to the deck.

It wasn't snowing outside, it was clear.

Xie Qiutao was still sitting on the edge of the deck, looking at the northern mountains in a daze; the dumpling might be hungry and confused, lying next to the small dragon turtle's shell, and seeing the door open, he swished and flew in. , Start:    "Chi Chi Chi..."

Xie Qiutao heard the movement and turned back and landed on the deck with a strange expression. First, she looked at the room behind Zuo Lingquan.

In the room neat and tidy, Shangguan Lingye sits behind the desk with a golden pen in his hand, handling the file with a serious expression; Tang Jingxun holds the dumpling in his arms and is fetching birds from Linglong Pavilion Food, the scene seems to be not as chaotic as expected.

"Huh?"

Xie Qiutao was taken aback, put away the weirdness in her heart, and came to the front to say curiously:    "Young Master Zuo, what are you doing in the house?" ?"

"In cultivation, I need to check things right away. I don't know what opponent I will meet, so I fill up Qi Sea first. I wanted to call Miss Xie in together, but the room is a bit small..."

Xie Qiutao stayed outside because the room was too small and could only sit and couldn’t walk around. Naturally, I didn’t mind that:

"Yes, I thought you guys In..."

"Well, why?"

"I thought you were cultivation, hehe......"

Xie Qiutao said vaguely and ran quickly Entering the house, volunteered to start feeding the dumplings.

Zuo Lingquan knew that Taotao had some guesses, but she could only see through it without exposing it. She smiled silently, and looked towards the north in a blink of an eye. She never thought of this look, but was amazed by the magnificent scenery.

It is a white mountain range, just like a white city wall lying horizontally on the ground. The peaks of the even mountain are covered with snow tops and connected to the blue sky. There is no cloud in the sky, and it is spotlessly clean.

A river flows out from among the mountains and converges into a turbulent river that flows to the south. The city and townships are scattered on the plain. The vast and empty Heaven and Earth makes people feel that they are the closest to the sky in an instant. The place.

However, although the scenery is beautiful, this place is really desolate for the people in the cultivation. The spiritual energy is extremely thin. Realm like Zuo Lingquan basically has no access.

Zuo Lingquan looked at the scenery for a while, and then the painting boat slowly fell down and parked in a deserted mountain forest.

Shangguan Lingye had heard of the terms Xuefeng mountain range and Caiyi Dachen in the past, but never set foot here personally. This place is also very strange to her, and there is not even one for reference. Map.

In order to find out about the madness as soon as possible, As the water recedes, the rocks appear, Zuo Lingquan chose to pretend to go out with Xie Qiutao, as the water recedes, the rocks appear. Walking experience on the ground floor, inquiring about the surrounding news.

Xie Qiutao has been running around all the year round, and is really good at these things. After a few casual conversations with the fortune tellers and escort dealers in the market, he figured it out.

Dachen Dynasty is located on the south side of Xuefeng mountain range, the territory is extremely vast, but most of them are no man's land, and the real control is only a few states and counties along the Yunjiang River.

As for the fairy family forces, on the surface are as rare as the Caiyi Kingdom. They are all Small Sects with the 8th layer called Old Ancestor. It is impossible to know whether there is a deep-water Old Turtle hidden in the dark.

Apart from this, Zuo Lingquan also learned from the visit that madness does not only occur in Caiyi Country, Dachen Country also found several patients, and the reaction is exactly the same as that of Yan Family Zhuang. However, the number was too scarce and did not erupt as concentratedly as in the surrounding areas of Yangcheng, so it was regarded as an ordinary stroke, and there was no news at all.

Although this news is simple, its meaning is shocking-across the two countries, ordinary people who may not have crossed each other for hundreds of years have the same symptoms. If it is caused by the same cause, only It can explain that the scope of this matter is exaggerated.

However, Zuo Lingquan still can’t see what he is going to do behind the scenes, because apart from the people in Yangcheng who were affected by the iron bell crow, the rest of the people who got mad just fell into madness, and ended up being the same as Yan Ge. There are also many people who are getting better, and they can't see what the people behind the scenes are like.

The motive of heretical path of the devils is not an unusual way, and Zuo Lingquan did not go deep on it; the whereabouts of the clouded leopard Taoist have been grasped, and the following investigations are nothing more than to follow the vine. After inquiring about the general information , I came to Wangshan County in the northern part of the Dachen Kingdom, looking for the sect of the clouded leopard Taoist in his childhood.

In Yunbao Taoist’s cultivation memory, he has appeared many times in the Shen Hao Zong who was a teacher in his childhood, but he did not stay permanently. If Yicheng returns to sect to visit, the frequency is too high. Haozong has nothing to do with this, Zuo Lingquan doesn't believe it.

It took two days to visit and inquire about news. By the time I arrived in Wangshan County, it was noon on the 3rd day.

Zuo Lingquan pretends to be a secular martial artist, and walks towards Daichi Mountain outside County City; Xie Qiutao originally wanted to pretend to be a chivalrous woman, but she looks really indifferent to the chivalrous character, so she can only take a hat and pretend to be a tomboy , Following Zuo Lingquan.

Xie Qiutao is very talkative. After seeing the mountain in the countryside, she talked enthusiastically:

"The word'dai' in Daichi Mountain should come from'daiyu' , Rumor has it that there is a fairy mountain carried by a tortoise on its back. There are countless Heaven and Earth Treasures on it. Only people with great opportunities can bump into it..."

Zuo Lingquan paid attention to the surrounding movements and followed up casually:    "The combination of Daichi Mountain means'a tortoise is called a mountain'?"

Xie Qiutao really thought about it, shook her head and said:    "It's not like, from I think it’s more like saying that this mountain is on Wu Turtle’s back, and sometimes it will make a sound..."

Zuo Lingquan didn’t listen to this explanation as a joke, because most of the place names are It is related to the local environment. Below Wangshan County is the root of Xuefeng Mountain Range. It is not surprising that a whole rock formation was regarded as a turtle's back by ancient prospectors.

The two came here not to discuss the tortoise problem. When they approached Daichi Mountain, they stopped talking and quietly came to the snow forest at the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of Daichi Mountain is a bazaar. There are a lot of people at noon. From time to time, you can see people leading children in and out of the bazaar.

Xie Qiutao has been to Huajun Island and has more experience than Zuo Lingquan. He looked at the stone road up the mountain and said in a low voice:   "This sect inheritance must be a long time ago . Those floor tiles are green vine stones, and the surface has Similar to the pattern of vines, in Huajunzhou, only the more conservative sect still uses this kind of stone. Today’s sect needs to be laid on the ground with various formations, all of which are changed to artificial formations. Small Sects cannot be used. I don’t know if it’s too special."

Zuo Lingquan followed the guidance and found that the stone path up the mountain was light azure with some lines. He thought it was only non-slip. Didn’t expect this. Kind of argument.

After Zuo Lingquan wrote down this knowledge, he was a little more alert. Just as he was about to take a detour from the mountains and touch it, Xie Qiutao by his side suddenly stopped.

Zuo Lingquan thought he had noticed something strange, so he quickly leaned forward and followed Xie Qiudao's gaze, only to find that Xie Qiutao was looking at the fortune-telling booth in the market.

The fortune-teller on the booth showed no signs of cultivation. From the conversations with the surrounding people, he was a local and there was nothing special about it, but on the banner behind the fortune-telling booth, three were written Big print:

Are you here

? !    Seeing these three words, Zuo Lingquan, who had just arrived here, was naturally taken aback. He felt that these three words seemed to be said to them, and they seemed to be an indiscriminate method of soliciting guests. The more they wanted to, the deeper their suspicions.

After frowning for a long time, Xie Qiutao opened the mouth and said:

"What can I do? I asked in the past, maybe walking right into a trap is exposed; if you don’t ask, maybe we I’ve really counted the whereabouts of him. Should we not withdraw first?"

Zuo Lingquan encountered this kind of psychological tactics for the first time, after thinking about it:

"The people behind the scenes know that we will I followed the vine to find out here. If you know the exact whereabouts, there is no need to leave the three words dressed up as God, playing the Devil. I think it’s just a bait. Going up and asking will reveal our current location."

Xie Qiutao felt that it made sense, but if she didn't see it, she felt weird in her heart, always feeling that she had been stared at from the dark.

Fortunately, the two did not observe long before they found a woman dressed up as a city girl, carrying a bamboo basket with incense, and walking towards the fortune-telling booth.

The woman wears a small brown coat, which is thicker and can't see the specific figure. She can only feel that the bone is very good. If she wants to come without clothes, her figure is quite lithe and graceful; the dress is relatively simple and only The ornament is a flower hairpin between the hairline-the hairpin is a peach flower.

Zuo Lingquan's gaze was naturally not on the woman's figure, just paying attention to the woman's movement; I saw the woman walking slowly to the fortune-telling booth, looking curiously for a moment, and asked:

"Dao Master, what do these three words mean? Do you know I am coming?"

The fortune-teller saw the guest and quickly put on a posture of divine poise and sagelike features. God speaks authentically:    "secret can not be revealed..."

"Oh, forget it, I went up the mountain to burn incense..."

"Eh, don't In a hurry, how about show your wife's face first? Ten cents, don't let me die!"

? !   Damn, it's so cruel...

Zuo Lingquan and Xie Qiutao watching in the dark are dumbfounded!   The woman with a flower hairpin also froze, and sat down in front of the stall:    "The Daoist is so bold. With this sentence, no one can make a lot of money if you don't make a lot of money, just forget it. "

"What does the madam do?"

"Count as marriage."

"Count...cough—girls want marriage? This trail is the most important thing. Okay, um... Celestial Court is full and full of eyebrows. It is a good-looking face. It stands to reason that you shouldn’t worry about marrying?"

"The Daoist has such good eyesight. Well."

"The trail pinches the finger and counts... Um... Yo~ Da Ji, if the Tao is not wrong, the girl’s peach blossom luck will arrive soon, and she will be in the vicinity, and it will not exceed a radius of one hundred.里......"

Ordinary people may not be able to walk a hundred li in a lifetime, and soon there will be no time. After a word, it means nothing to say.

However, the woman with flower hairpins is very cooperative and happy. After listening to the good words of the fortune teller, she discharged ten large sums of money:    "Let’s take a long auspicious word. By the way, these three words are long. I haven’t said yet. Is it written to solicit customers?"

"No, trail relies on ability to eat, so how can we do these tricks? Someone gave trail ten silver tael two days ago and asked me to Hang the banner, and if someone asks, they will say, “One Huangshi, Feng Siniang Restaurant”, Xiaodao doesn’t understand what it means..."

Xie Qiutao, who listened in the dark, heard this in his eyes and was shocked by something wrong. , Looking at Zuo Lingquan.

Zuo Lingquan heard the meaning of these words-a brilliant stone, left at the Feng Siniang restaurant in Ning City, let him take it in the past, of course, the price is that you don't check down on the current affairs.

Zuo Lingquan didn't expect that the person behind the scenes wanted to buy him, and asked softly:

"Thank you girl, what is Huangshi?"

"A great thing, a kind of fire brooded in the south of Huajunzhou, which is similar to the grade of the rootless Heavenly Fire. It will basically not be exported to the market. It is a priceless treasure. This person behind it is such a big hand. What should I do now?"

Xie Qiutao asked what to do. He was asking whether to get the brilliant stone, but he was not moved by the temptation of crooked ways.

After all, if you take the heretical path of the devils, it’s tempting to help people with things; if you take the thing and continue to play the heretical path of the devils, it’s called accidentally seizing spoils of war on the way to kill demons and eliminate demons. , Heaven and Earth Treasure of white prostitution, don’t do it for nothing.

Zuo Lingquan is currently short of Life Source fire, and has plans to use prostitution, but he considered it and shook his head:

"The suspicion of the soldiers, let us toss or divide the soldiers back and forth. If you really go back, maybe you have to lie in ambush, no matter what, continue to investigate."

Xie Qiutao gently nodded: "Yes, but people dare to leave a word here, it means that the Shen Hao Sect has been prepared for a long time. Check?"

Zuo Lingquan thought secretly: "Now go in, it is easy to miss the trail, and there are probably no clues left in it. If you can't find the most places, go to the least commuting place; Clouded Leopard The Taoist has only been to Beiya once, there must be something strange, and the speed should be faster."

"Okay."

The two left quietly, but before leaving, Zuo Lingquan took another look at the woman with flower hairpins.

This is not because Zuo Lingquan found something strange, but because the timing of the woman's appearance and questioning was a bit coincidental.

After looking at it from head to toe, Zuo Lingquan didn't stay anymore and left the market with Xie Qiutao after confirming that his face and measurements were not familiar.

In front of the fortune-telling booth, the woman with flower hairpins was still eagerly listening to the fortune-teller's good words, and then she got up on the mountain until she was satisfied.

Shen Haozong is on the top of the mountain. The scale is not large. The woman with flower hairpins came outside the mountain gate at a moderate pace. It can be seen that some people lined up waiting for the people in the sect to check the roots, and more people walked inside. Incense to pray for blessings.

For the ordinary people, Shen Hao Zong is just a Taoist temple, no one knows the meaning of the word'Shen Hao', and the Ancestral Master in the great hall, and no one knows which Divine is. Immortal.

The woman with flower hairpin came to the great hall and looked at the Ancestor Master statue carved out by future generations. She shook her head slightly and took time it takes to burn a stick of incense from the incense basket. Inserted in the incense burner in front of the statue.

There are many people in Taoist Temple, and it is quite lively. There are lines in Shangxiang. After putting on the incense, the woman with flower hairpin went out of the great hall, wandering in the sect as if looking at the scenery, and finally came to the vicinity of a viewing pavilion facing the market at the foot of the mountain.

The viewing pavilion is located on a high level, with a bird's eye view of the panoramic view of the mountain. At this time, a man wearing a daoist robe is standing inside, with his arms folded, looking at the fortune-telling booth under the mountain.

The woman with flower hairpin glanced back, as if she was tired from walking, came outside the viewing pavilion and said unexpectedly:

"Oh, someone is there..."

The Taoist in the pavilion turned around and glanced, and his attitude was peaceful:

"Girl rest here, I'm going somewhere else."

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After the woman with flower hairpin leaned her body, she gave way:

"Thanks for the road is long."

The viewing pavilion is not big, and the entrance steps are one person wide.

The woman with flower hairpins waited beside the steps, and when the Taoist passed by, she opened the mouth and said:

"The Taoist?"

Taoist instinct Turning his head, looked towards the woman with flower hairpins beside her, she smelled a dark fragrance when she thought of just touching the eyes of the woman, and then the whole person froze in place, and her eyes lost their glamour.

The flower hairpin woman kept her original look and asked with a smile:    "Who made you stare here?"

"Old Zheng."

"Who else among you?"

"I don't know much. Except for Old Zheng, there are Wu Songzi, Lu Tong, Yun Leopard Taoist. Yun Leopard Taoist has just died, and the other two have just arrived outside. Immortal Elder, whereabouts is unknown."

"What are you doing?"

"I just do some miscellaneous tasks. I contact the government and Aristocratic Family squires in various parts of northern Xinjiang. He opened the river and built the canal for more than ten years. I have never known the purpose of Old Zheng."

"What's the matter with the madness?"

"Since helping Old Zheng with the affair Madness began to appear everywhere, because Old Zheng hadn’t explained the reason. In recent years, there has been a large-scale emergence near Caiyi Guoyang City, and the news was spread outside, and we managed to cover it. Old Zheng caught the iron bell crow and asked the clouded leopard Taoist to put it in Yan Near the Family Village, using this to conceal people’s eyes, didn’t expect the clouded leopard Taoist to deal with it, and completely leaked the wind."

"There is no Tianfu Pagoda, and you found the opponent's whereabouts, how can you contact the upper one?"

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"Crush the jade slip, Old Zheng will feel it. If there is nothing unusual, he will come over in ten days and arrange things for me."

The woman with flower hairpin is slightly nodded and has not spoken yet, The Taoist who has been confused, can't hide what he thinks, and continues:    "But Old Zheng is careful and never reveals his whereabouts. This time he said that he will come ten days later. I think it is just a slow-down strategy; even I I was caught by you, and it was a lie. You will stay here for ten days."

The woman with flower hairpins was a little surprised: "It seems that Old Zheng underestimated your scheming. To be an abandoned child, I am overkill."

"Thanks to the award, the cultivation road follows people to do things. If you don’t hide your clumsy, you will be suspicious sooner or later, but it’s a pity that you’re hiding too much this time."

Guess where they are going?"

"People I know are all running around, building water conservancy projects according to Old Zheng's layout. The plan must be related to water. I think it's the source of water in northern Xinjiang."

The source of water...

In a blink of an eye, the woman with flower hairpin looked towards the snowy mountain range in the north, nodded.

Taoist Both eyes are spiritless, continue:

"Can Immortal Elder not kill me? We just run errands with money, Old Zheng doesn't want to setback to attract people, how dare we? For evil, what I have done over the years is probably more decent than Immortal Elder..."

"If I guess the upper hand is plotting bad things, I still don’t care about taking money to do things. No matter what I do, I am acting for the tiger, more than ignorance. Driven by others, the guilt is much greater. However, I think you are not the mastermind, and you have not done any great evil, and only abolished your cultivation base, and you will be a mortal for the rest of your life."

"Immortal Elder can start from scratch." Opportunity?"

"Your mind is not right, you shouldn’t be cultivation, consider it in your next life."

After the flower hairpin woman finished speaking, she raised her hand and swiped it across the Taoist’s eyes and body. The shape disappears at the same time.

The Taoist stood alone outside the viewing pavilion, his eyes were in a daze, he resumed his daily routine, and then he was puzzled.

"What I wanted to do just now, I forgot how I turned around..."

The Taoist frowned and thought about it, but he returned to the view without thinking of anything. In the pavilion, continue to watch, and have not noticed the Qi Sea in the body, just like an hourglass, slowly passing by wisps...

(End of this chapter)