Qingguan Nightmare Shadow

Chapter 25

After leaving the teahouse, the second place Su Tong thought of was Baiyin Temple.But Baiyin Temple was full of pilgrims who came to pay their vows after the disaster. Yunli and Nie Qiu raised their hands at the same time to express their unwillingness to go up the mountain to see the head, so Su Tong took the two of them to the back of the mountain and went to Xiuzhu River.The water of the Xiuzhu River is still shallow, and some of the filth on the bottom of the river can be seen at a glance at this time, and even emits a strange smell, which spoils everyone's expected scenery.

At this time, the sun was already shining brightly, not to mention the steamed stuffed bun in the morning, Nie Qiu had already accepted the fact that there was no chance for lunch today.With his chest pressed against his back, he followed Su Tong along the river like a piece of paper, and his stomach grunted from time to time.Yun Li thought he was noisy, so he deliberately put a long distance away from him, so the three of them lined up in a straight three-point line by the river.

Nie Qiuluo stood at the end and said bitterly: "Brother, it's my stomach screaming, and it's not what I want, so I can help."

Turning his head, seeing Nie Qiu approaching him again, Yun Li made a gesture to stop him and said, "Isn't your stomach yours? You can't do anything about him, so can I?"

Nie Qiu stuck out her tongue and acted like a writer, and said with a smile, "Why can't I do it? Brother, just give me a meal."

Yun Li grabbed a handful of dirt and threw him: "Eat the dirt."

Nie Qiu's reaction was half a beat slow, and a handful of loose soil suddenly flew over her face.He hurriedly wiped his mouth, "Bah bah" a few times, and said in mourning, "You two young masters, for most of the day without water and rice, you wandered along the stinky ditch, I'm sorry, I really can't understand what you two are interested in!"

Yunli stopped, facing Xiuzhuhe who was "complexioned", and said to Su Tong: "Mr. Su, this is true."

When he was in the teahouse, he wanted to make Su Tong happy, but this person was so introverted that he seemed to be born without the ability to be happy, so Yun Li had no choice but to comfort him with the idea that "the pain of losing a loved one is as heavy as a mountain, and a load of stones is not enough to move it". In his heart, lest his self-confidence, the Immortal Siming Lord, be greatly damaged by him again and again.

Yun Li looked away a lot, thinking that since Su Tong took him and Nie Qiu to the teahouse and Xiuzhu River, it proved that he was not perfunctory in the matter of "guiding Xiuzhu" and spent some time; In addition, the Xiuzhu River near the teahouse and Baiyin Temple is the most pleasant place that a teenager who has been locked up at home all year round can think of. As heavy as the day before.

Before Nie Qiu quarreled, Yun Li thought about where Su Tong was going, and just let him go. The project of changing his mind cannot be done overnight, and there is no rush, so it is best to let go now and stop interfering; understand him in the end Where and what you are interested in, it is true to gradually find a breakthrough.

However, looking around, the Xiuzhu River is now a "stinky ditch" in the mouth of Nie Qiu. Su Tong walked unhurriedly for a long time. Could it be that he wants to obtain some kind of sublimation of the spiritual world in the process of being tortured by the sense of smell?Yun Li sized up Su Tong, and felt that no matter how he looked at it, this young man who was nourished by the words of a sage should not have such eccentricities.

Su Tong didn't know the various analyzes that Yun Li was making around him in his heart, and when he was walking along the river, he would look into the river carefully from time to time.When Yun Li called him, he pulled himself out of his contemplation.

Su Tong stopped, subconsciously said: "Mr. Yun." He watched Yun Li approaching, but when Yun Li approached, he turned his head away again.

Yunli: "What are you looking at?"

"Looking for fish."

Yunli's first reaction was: "Do you want to eat fish?"

Su Tong: "Look for goldfish. There should be a lot of goldfish in Xiuzhu River."

"Oh, goldfish...do you like goldfish?"

Su Tong looked into the distance: "Yes."

Looking at the current Xiuzhu River, Yun Li felt that let alone goldfish, today he might not even be able to see the most picky small miscellaneous fish.He was thinking like this, when he heard Nie Qiu startled and said: "Brother, Mr. Su! Goldfish!"

Yunli and Su Tong looked in the direction of the broken wizard's finger for a long time, but they didn't see anything.Nie Qiu ran over and pointed for a while, and finally the two of them saw a lonely goldfish in the gap between two stones.The goldfish was small and thin, listless, and its scales were as dull as faded rouge, not very agile and bright.

Nie Qiu suddenly thought: "Take it back and raise it?" At that moment, his stomach growled again sadly.

Yun Li ignored his opinion, and said in disgust, "Stay away from us."

Nie Qiu covered the noise in his stomach, and once again mustered up the courage to look at Yunli for help. All his facial features cooperated with his eyes and shouted, "I'm hungry." Yunli took a slight step back behind Su Tong, out of sight and out of mind , so as not to be startled by the big "watery" eyes of the broken wizard and goosebumps all over the body.

Facing Su Tong, Nie Qiu swallowed her saliva and dared not speak any more.He knows that there will always be a dead Su Qiuguang between him and Su Tong; unless he can bring Su Qiuguang back to life, the misunderstanding between the two cannot be resolved by clarifying the so-called facts unilaterally.Nie Qiu scratched her head, laughed and said, "I'll stay away, stay away."

Yunli realized that Su Tong was a good talisman against wizards, so he put his arm around his shoulder, familiarly called him brother and brother with body language, and successfully left Nie Qiu aside.Instead, he felt his arm was a little sore, and after a while he had to admit that it was a height problem, so he withdrew his hand, picked up Su Tong's arm and put it on his body.

Yun Li's stature is very tall, although he is not "short" at all, but seeing that Su Tong, who is only fifteen or sixteen years old, is an inch or two taller than him, he still can't help wondering what kind of nourishment Master Mu Zhe used in the first place Bad things fed him up.

Thinking of Master's stingy behavior in his heart, Yun Li faintly felt that Su Tong's arm was a little hot.Through the cloth, a heat flow passed from Su Tong to Yunli, and the latter began to think whether he had too little contact with others, so he felt that a person's normal body temperature was too "hot".After all, Yunli likes to be alone in Siming Wonderland, and what he deals with is mostly cold paper of fate.

Um, but Mu Zhe often rubs his face, from childhood to adulthood.But maybe being rubbed by the master gradually became commonplace, so he unconsciously ignored it, and he couldn't remember the feeling of Mu Zhe's hand touching his face for a while.Trying to think back, he only vaguely felt that Master's temperature was different from Su Tong's.

Hey, he touched Su Tong's body the day before yesterday, and it didn't feel hot.

"Master Su." Yun Li said suddenly.

With a strange exploration mentality, when Su Tong looked at him from the side, he was not polite at all, and directly started to rub his hands on the other's chest, wanting to see if the temperature here was different from that on the arm.

Well, it's hot too.

"You have a fever?" Yun Li tried it on Su Tong's forehead with the back of his hand, "You were drenched in the rain for so long yesterday, look, you are sick."

Su Tong: "..."

Yun Li felt it for a while, and said seriously, "It's hot, but it's not burned."

Su Tong retracted the arm kidnapped by Yunli, and took half a step back.

Yun Li thought he knew everything about Su Tong, so he didn't treat himself as an outsider in the past two or three days, and he always made moves without saying a word.As soon as Su Tong retreated, he finally realized that he was just a stranger who had only known him for two or three days in front of the other party.The ground is no better than the sky, people's feet are firmly planted, Su Tong doesn't care about him, so naturally he doesn't want to let him do whatever he wants.

But what if you realize it?This didn't prevent Yunli from continuing to do anything.

Yunli lifted Su Tong's chin with two fingers, causing Su Tong's upper and lower white teeth to make a soft sound of two pieces of broken porcelain kissing, subtle but definitely there.

Before Su Tong said "Young Master Yun" with an uncomfortable feeling in his mouth, Yun Li grabbed him who was about to step back and said, "Why can't I touch you? I won't peel your skin, and I won't cut your flesh , just caring about you, to see if you have a fever... Besides, you can tease me, but I can't fight back?" Yun Li pinched his jaw with his thumb again, and said: "An eye for an eye, An eye for an eye. If you are not happy, I will touch you, and if you have the ability, you can touch it back."

Unexpectedly, Su Tong didn't stand coldly or step back, but looked to the side and shook her head, clenched her fists and touched the tip of her nose, seeming to laugh.

Putting aside some things that were too targeted, Yunli suddenly felt that the matter of "playing with Su Tong" was quite interesting in itself.Because Su Tong is very weird, Yunli asked him to laugh but he didn't laugh, and asked him to be annoyed, but he laughed; this person's internal mechanism and external lead wires don't seem to match well, one lead wire will be pulled out, and it will be pulled out exactly as expected different results.

Just as he was thinking, Yun Li heard a "bang".

The broken wizard's wooden ball rolled to Yunli's feet.

Uh, this scene seems familiar.

With a smiling face, Nie Qiu rushed over to pick up the ball.Yun Li first picked up the ball, looked at him and said, "Did you do it on purpose?"

Nie Qiu pretended to be suave and said, "Brother, why is it on purpose or not? I'll just pick up a ball." Yun Li raised his hand to slap someone, but the wooden ball he was holding suddenly opened its mouth and bit it accurately and ruthlessly. one of his fingers.Yun Li's face darkened, he grabbed the wooden ball's mouth and broke it, but the wooden ball actually bit even tighter.Nie Qiu was more reactive than Yunli who was bitten, knowing that he didn't control his "vicious dog", fearing that the gunpowder-filled fairy would be angry, he helped Yunli drag the wooden ball that turned into a large cocklebur.

After receiving Yunli's glance, Nie Qiu hurriedly said: "Little ancestor, let go quickly. If you don't let go, I will..."

If I don't let go, I will be hacked into pieces by my little brother's green light.

After Nie Qiu shoved, the wooden ball finally spit out Yunli's fingers and turned back.The scabbard at Yunli's waist trembled: "Broken Sword" seemed to want to fight back for its master.Yun Li persuaded it, "Forget it, one missing tooth is not enough, do you want to have a second tooth?"

"Broken Sword" struggled, humming and buzzing, Yun Liquan thought it was whimpering because of embarrassment.

Hearing the countless apologies from Wizard Po, Yunli's ears were callused; seeing Nie Qiu take a deep breath, Yunli knew without thinking that he was going to beg for mercy next time, so he used Su Tong as a shield , and pushed toward Nie Qiu.Facts have proved that Su Tong is better than any needlework or zipper for breaking the wizard's mouth.

Nie Qiu was anxious to turn the page on the biting of the wooden ball, so she changed the subject and said, "Brother, Mr. Su, the goldfish is gone."

Yunli didn't care at all: "If you don't see it, then you'll be gone." Unexpectedly, Su Tong threw away the "heavy task" that Yunli imposed on him as a human shield, and walked to the riverside as if summoned by some kind of power, watching The water mark that has not yet calmed down after the goldfish swims away.Yun Li coughed lightly: "Master Su, you don't really want to fish it back and raise it?"

Nie Qiu interjected, "There! There! It swam over there."

Seeing how excited he was, Yun Li squinted and said, "Then go pick it up and give it to Mr. Su."

Nie Qiu: "Don't tell me... how can I get this?"

Yunli: "Who proposed to fish just now?"

Nie Qiu drooped her shoulders and said, "Smelly."

Yunli said: "You haven't bathed in hundreds of years? Do you still know how to write 'stinky'?"

Nie Qiu: "One side, one upright, one sideways fold..."

Yun Li sarcastically said, "You're really good."

Nie Qiu said: "Brother, thank you, brother, thank you."

Unknowingly, Yun Li started talking nonsense with the broken wizard again, he sighed in his heart, stopped the conversation turning in a strange direction in time, and cursed: "Go to hell." Instead, he let his eyes follow the goldfish wandering far away for a while , until the little thing covered with gray surface disappeared from the field of vision.He pondered for a moment, and said to Su Tong: "If Mr. Su likes goldfish, I will bring you some in the future." Although the things in Siming Wonderland are not as complete as those in Jiuchongtian, the few goldfish are still looking for them. owned.

Su Tong was turning around, Nie Qiu sniffled and said, "Brother, Mr. Su, I smell something."

Yunli: "What's the smell?"

Sometimes, indeed, the broken wizard's nose was sharper than his eyes.

Nie Qiu: "The smell of horses and blood. This smell comes from the vicinity of Baiyin Temple... Uh, it's disgusting."

At first, Yunli didn't take the "horse show and blood" to heart. After all, horses are the means of travel for wealthy families, and chicken blood and duck blood are common ritual supplies. No matter where the smell of these two things appears, it is not worth it. Amazing place.However, after half a stick of incense, there was a sound of galloping horses that could be described as mighty and mighty, coming from far and near. The sound was fast and violent, causing the ground on the side of the Xiuzhu River to vibrate, Yun Li thought. Deliberately ignoring it will not work.

Soon, the sound of people shouting was mixed with the sound of horseshoes.

"Get out of the way! Everyone out of the way!"

"Everyone get out of the way!"

"Everyone get out of the way!"

The shouts continued continuously, and were uttered by different people in response.

It sounds like it is a huge cavalry, and the people driving the cavalry are not small.

Yunli: "Let's go and have a look."

The three of them walked to the bottom of the hundreds of stone steps of Baiyin Temple, and saw that the people on the stone steps turned their heads and looked down at the horse team that was getting closer and shouting.Many people who were originally in the monastery also came out, including monks from Baiyin Temple.For a while, the hundreds of stone steps were densely packed with people, and people who came later might not be able to get in if they walked upside down with a finger.

"Call-"

The leader of the horse team got off his horse before the first hundred stone stairs.

He was said to be the leader, but in fact his attire was indistinguishable from those of other horseback riders. They were all uniformed like soldiers.However, this uniform is not ordinary.Nie Qiu only glanced at it, then said: "Soldiers from the capital."

The soldiers in the capital belong directly to the emperor.

Yunli roughly counted, the cavalry was probably composed of more than 30 fat and strong horses and more than 30 soldiers from the capital.Soon, he, Nie Qiu and Su Tong all found a cage hanging from each horse, and inside the cage were some objects of similar size, all of which were wrapped in a layer of black cloth.

Why did the emperor send such a team of people to repair bamboo in Shuzhou?

The team leader solemnly took out a token inlaid with gold, held it over his head, and said: "By the order of the Holy Majesty, I will bring 31 heads of Zhang Ke, Cui Jing, Xu Xianhua, etc., to comfort the dead souls of Xiuzhu Baixin!" After saying that, the soldiers behind him all lifted the black cloth in the cage, revealing the head he was talking about.

Those heads explain what is called "twisted and grotesque".All of their expressions were fixed in a state of extreme panic. That kind of panic was not like the panic of death, but the panic of pain.This kind of panic has the brute force of smashing the five senses and reassembling them, which cannot be shown by people who live down-to-earth.Although Yun Li didn't know what capital crimes these decapitated people committed, but judging from the section of their necks, he guessed that these people were not decapitated by a sharp axe, but by a blunt knife.In other words, before the heads in the cage were separated, their owners' necks were cut with a knife.

Holding the token in hand, the team leader stepped up the first step of the hundred stone steps of Baiyin Temple.The token seemed to have the effect of dividing the flow of people. The crowd that seemed to fit together was pressed to the left and right sides, creating a path in the middle that could accommodate one person.

The soldiers dismounted one after another, with the chains hanging from the cage on their wrists, and followed the leader with their heads in their hands.

The human heads in the cage are like exhibits for people to look at.

In fact, the soldiers were ordered to let the bamboo repairers watch the human head exhibition.

When they reached the upper steps, the team leader held up his badge and repeated: "In the name of the Holy One, bring 31 heads of Zhang Ke, Cui Jing, Xu Xianhua, etc., to comfort the souls of Xiuzhu Baixin!"

If you see the emperor himself when you see the badge, but there is no place for everyone to kneel down at this time, people will bow their heads and lower their eyebrows instead.

Children peek through their parents' fingers.

Yun Li asked, "Who are Zhang Ke, Cui Jing, and Xu Xianhua?"

Su Tong said in a deep voice: "The main office of the Bu government, the main office of the Supervisory Mansion, and the main office of the Rongwei Mansion."

Yun Li was startled: The current emperor actually picked off the heads of these three people with more than [-] people.Beheading the head of the Three Houses is tantamount to moving the bones of the entire country except the head; for the country to function normally, it must start from the bones and reassemble the flesh and blood, which is equivalent to creating a new person.

Nie Qiu is a person who has traveled all over the world. He scanned the heads of other people one by one, and while identifying them, he added: "There are also... the main office of the Chongzhou Chief Executive, the Huzhou Chief Executive, and the Shazhou Chief Executive , Haizhou Chief Executive Office..." He paused, "Except for Shuzhou, all the Chief Executive Offices are here."