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Chapter 831: Faith is Hard to Find in the Vast Smoke and Waves

"Why don't you come out and say goodbye to Junior Sister?"

"Am I the crybaby spirit?"

"Like."

"You fart."

"Just don't cry quietly."

"Xiao Rongzi, that's you, right? Miss Xie didn't come back this morning, and you were sitting in someone else's tent, like a stone waiting for your husband to come back."

Ouyang Rong's face was stern. "That's nonsense."

"You still don't admit it. I was absent-minded when I was drawing the talisman."

Ouyang Rong was too lazy to listen to the little Mo Jing yelling and turned to look at Ye Weilai.

After bidding farewell to Li Xian's family, Ouyang Rong set off alone with Ye Weilai.

One person, one horse.

Plus a little black elf and a white sturgeon.

However, the white sturgeon seemed to like the river water very much. Bathing in the river water was like "a fish in water". Their route was to go upstream along the river, so the white sturgeon stayed in the water, going upstream and following them.

Ye Weilai was very interested in the white sturgeon. Carrying a small bag on her back, she rode on horseback along the river, looking at the white sturgeon curiously.

Ouyang Rong retracted his gaze and looked at the little black spirit lazily lying on Dongmei's head:

"I thought you would come out to say goodbye, or go with Junior Sister to Luoyang."

Miao Si grasped Dongmei's hair with both hands, turned over lazily, crossed his legs and said:
"In my opinion, you are reluctant to leave Xie and the others, and you want me to help you stay a little longer and not leave so 'cool'. Humph, I won't do that. Besides, I won't go to Luoyang, that place is too dangerous."

Ouyang Rong did not admit it, and asked in surprise: "What danger? Your impression of Luoyang is not still in the Southern Dynasty."

"Not really. Luoyang and Chang'an have some sayings. We spirits can't get close to them easily, unless there is a noble person by your side. Forget it. You won't understand even if I tell you."

Miao Si stared at the sky blankly and muttered quietly:
"However, I have thought about following Miss Xie to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks, but..."

She rolled her eyes and waved her hand:

"But after thinking about it, I'm really afraid that you'll cry and beg me to stay, and hold on to my clothes with tears and snot, which will be a bad scene. It's a bit harsh, but I'm soft-hearted, so I'll stay with you reluctantly.

"Xiao Rongzi, you must be nice to me and not be ungrateful, or I will sleep and kill you."

Ouyang Rong: "..."

Miao Si looked around and sighed at the lonely figures of Ouyang Rong and Ye Weilai:

"With Miss Xie not here, it's quite quiet, but there were so many people just now, including the Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain and Maoshan. If I came out, wouldn't they see me?"

Ouyang Rong nodded: "The main reason is that I am timid."

"Bullshit." Miao Si's face flushed, and she said unhappily, "Then, then why don't you stay and talk to Xie Yatou and the others?"

Ouyang Rong narrowed his eyes slightly and spoke softly:
"Yeah, just like you, there are a lot of people around."

Miao Si curled her lips: "It's not something shameful, why don't you say it? Are the people around you unreliable? Humph..."

Little Mojing was halfway through his speech when he suddenly realized:

"Wait, are you hoping that I will be captured? Do you want to chase me away?"

"How dare you."

"No, that's what you think! Great, little Rongzi!"

Miao Si widened her eyes and pounced towards Ouyang Rong's face with her teeth and claws bared.

But Ouyang Rong grabbed him without blinking, and hung him in the air, kicking his short legs.

"Stop it."

"Xiao Rongzi, you are the worst, no doubt about it! This fairy lady is really blind to follow you for so long."

Noticing that Ye Weilai had looked over after hearing the sound, Ouyang Rong was speechless and covered her mouth:
"Keep your voice down and don't say things that could be misunderstood."

Without waiting for Miao Si to protest, Ouyang Rong suddenly asked:

"So, you actually prepared a parting gift for your junior sister?"

Miao Si's little face was puzzled: "Gift, what gift? Who has a gift?"

Ouyang Rong didn't say anything, but stretched out two fingers and took out two small bamboo tubes from the right sleeve of the little nun in Confucian clothes, where she liked to hide things. The two bamboo tubes were tied together with a hemp rope.

Miao Si, who had originally looked innocent, suddenly changed color.

"It's okay. It doesn't matter whether it's me or my junior sister. I'll do it for her."

Ouyang Rong smiled and said "Is that so?", then calmly put away the two tubes of spiritual ink.

Wonderful idea:?

After a while, Ouyang Rong suppressed the little black spirit who rose up in resistance and stuffed the little guy into his sleeve.

He took off the scroll on his back and put two tubes of spiritual ink into the painting.

The Eighteen Seeds were given to Rong Zhen as agreed without any debt. Now he only had the fake Ding Sword with the Peach Blossom Spring painting.

[Craftsman]'s Peach Blossom Sword Formation has not been completed yet. As the sword wielder, the only weapon he can mobilize is [Hanshi]'s only fake Ding sword.

However, this item unexpectedly has a good storage capacity. Although it consumes some merit purple mist every time, Ouyang Rong still moved all the important belongings out of the Mo family sword box and put them into the painting, including the sword box containing [Craftsmanship] and the Pool of Thunder Punishment.

The scroll is slender and small, about the length of a forearm, and is far less bulky and space-consuming than a violin case.

However, Ouyang Rong had habitually carried it on his back before. Now that he had hidden the spiritual ink, he gestured at the length of the scroll and stuffed it into his arms.

After doing all this, Ouyang Rong nodded slightly and looked around.

The river breeze blew, his sleeves fluttered, and he appeared to be alone.

He was silent for a moment, turned around to call Ye Weilai, and continued on his journey with her and the fish.

Half a decade later, they finally arrived at Xunyang City.

When he entered the city in the evening, he was stopped by the guards at the city gate, but after seeing Ouyang Rong's face clearly, he immediately let him pass with awe.

No one knew Ouyang Rong's whereabouts along the way, so naturally no one came to greet him in advance.

Ouyang Rong asked Ye Weilai to return to his residence in Huaiye Lane, while he rode alone to the Jiangzhou lobby.

His return instantly made Jiangzhou lobby lively.

Ouyang Rong took the teacup handed to him by Yan Liulang and inspected it.

Xunyang City seemed to have not changed much since he left.

Yan Liulang performed his duties conscientiously, maintained order in the city, and strictly supervised Yi Qianqiu and the surviving female officials and soldiers.

There were not many survivors who witnessed the Battle of Xunyang, only a dozen or twenty people, all of whom were Rong Zhen and Yi Qianqiu's confidants.

In fact, there was no need for Yan Liulang to supervise them, as they all kept their mouths shut.

I was really impressed by that majestic and superb figure.

Some people even developed stress reactions.

For example, when you see a white sturgeon wandering leisurely.

The survivors of the Battle of Shuangfeng Peak, including Yi Qianqiu, refused to talk about what happened inside after they walked out of Shuangfeng Peak and were very secretive about it.

The Qin siblings and the three hundred surrendered White Tiger Guards escorted back by the Xuanwu Camp were unaware of the Battle of Shuangfengjian.

The Qin brothers and sisters had already left two days before Ouyang Rong returned. The three hundred White Tiger Guards surrendered, because Ouyang Rong had the "rebellion" handle in his hand, also became obedient and were strictly managed by Yi Qianqiu.

Ouyang Rong returned to Xunyang and did not give any more instructions to these people. It was as if he had forgotten about it and went about his own business.

It's not just the confidence given by the Kuixing Talismans that Cui Hao secretly planted in their bodies.

I heard that since returning to Xunyang City, Yuan Huaimin and Yi Qianqiu have been living in the courtyard of Chengtian Temple.

The cousins ​​always eat and travel together.

Yi Qianqiu also behaved very honestly and calmly accepted the supervision of the captain sent by Yan Liulang.

These were all reported by Yan Liulang to Ouyang Rong.

Ouyang Rong declined to comment on this.

Half a month passed like this. During this period, Yuan Huaimin invited Ouyang Rong to dinner several times, but he declined.

Ouyang Rong knew that Yi Qianqiu wanted to see him.

Because Yuan Huaimin never invited anyone to dinner.

The Great Secretary of the Yuan Dynasty himself went around begging for food, so it was a blessing not to be able to eat from him.

Anyone who invites Ouyang Rong to dinner must be a traitor or a thief.

As for Yi Qianqiu's words, they were simply about asking about the ending of the Battle of Shuangfeng Peak, trying to test his opinion on how it was handled.

Because ever since Ouyang Rong returned to Xunyang City, he has been handling people's livelihood and government affairs normally as if nothing had happened.

Moreover, he goes out early and comes back late every day and never works overtime.

Every evening he would return to Huaiye Lane on time and stay in Yinbingzhai to read.

Occasionally, he would go to Pei Shisan Niang's yard.

There is also a quiet courtyard by the Xingzifang Lake where you can sit and wait.

When he was away during the day, he also asked Ye Weilai and others to guard the three courtyards to keep them staffed at all times.

Avoid missing a beautiful figure returning.

Ouyang Rong still didn't pay much attention to Yi Qianqiu.

On weekdays, if I met him at the entrance of Jiangzhou Hall after work, I would just greet him politely as usual and then turn around and leave.

Yi Qianqiu didn't dare to ask more.

Although she was known for her bad temper, she could not show any of it in front of the gentle young governor and could only force a smile.

However, as long as Ouyang Rong does not make a statement regarding the Battle of Shuangfeng Peak, Yi Qianqiu and the other survivors will remain worried and in a state of panic.

After a long time, the impatient Yi Qianqiu began to ask Yuan Huaimin on duty every day, but he learned from Yuan Huaimin that the governor Ouyang seemed to be busy with two things recently.

One thing is to restore people's livelihood in Xunyang City.

Another thing is that the wanted list for "Yunmeng Jianze" is open.

Yi Qianqiu heard from Yuan Huaimin that Governor Ouyang seemed to be sending people to search for the location of the Yunmeng Jianze sect, as if he was ready to send people to Yunmengze to wipe out the Yue woman at any time.

However, Yi Qianqiu felt that this was a fantasy. Not to mention whether the location of the ancestral hall of the hidden sect could be found, it was impossible for the government to penetrate into Yunmengze and wipe out a hidden sect by relying solely on its power.

Even when Yi Qianqiu and Rong Zhen were strong in both men and horses, they had never thought of this method.

However, when he thought that it was this young governor who did this, Yi Qianqiu suddenly felt that it was not impossible.

She still occasionally dreams of the young governor's fearsome figure at the Twin Peaks that day and wakes up in shock...

Anyway, regarding the Battle of Shuangfeng Peak, Ouyang Rong and his Jiangzhou Hall acted as if nothing had happened. They didn't seem to deal with it or make any statement. The empty Xunyang Grottoes without Buddha, and the golden Buddha head that sank into the river, were not dealt with at all, as if they had been forgotten.

One day, Yi Qianqiu could no longer bear it. When she was off duty in the evening, she took the help of Yuan Huaimin and found the young governor who was cleaning the desk.

The tall girl asked cautiously:
"Ouyang Governor, excuse me, where is the princess? Also, did you forget something? If we don't deal with it, someone might take us to Luoyang. We'd better do it ourselves..."

Ouyang Rong looked at Yi Qianqiu, then at Yuan Huaimin who was smiling guiltily beside him.

In Yi Qianqiu's expectant eyes, Ouyang Rong suddenly turned around and said to Yuan Huaimin:

"Oh, yes, I almost forgot, Yuan Changshi, I am not feeling well recently so I won't go to the dinner you said you would treat me to. Yuan Changshi, please give me a discount and take three taels of your monthly salary as a gift."

Yuan Huaimin:?

Yi Qianqiu: ...

Ouyang Rong smiled, turned and walked out.

Yi Qianqiu, who left with some disappointment, did not see it. Before leaving the lobby, Ouyang Rong called Yan Liulang and asked about the time and date.

"Mingfu, it's been a month since you came back."

Ouyang Rong lowered his eyes, adjusted his cuffs, and seemed to estimate it by the way, muttering:

"That's about it. What should have arrived has arrived."

On the second day, Ouyang Rong came to the Jiangzhou lobby to take up duty, brought a memorial, and sent someone to deliver it to Luoyang.

Soon after, he went back to work as usual.

Yuan Huaimin returned that night and told Yi Qianqiu about this, and the latter suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it is not known why Ouyang Rong delayed time, this young governor should have his plans.

However, Ouyang Rong had no intention of discussing the matter with her, so Yi Qianqiu couldn't help feeling helpless and having no control over her fate.

However, she was also decent enough not to ask Ouyang Rong about the contents of the memorial. The confusion of an adult actually revealed the answer.

One day, Yan Liulang came to Ouyang Rong's desk with an embarrassed look on his face and reported:
"Ming Fu, we haven't found any clues about the exact location of Yunmeng Jianze, and some people in the martial arts world are also ambiguous about it.

"I heard that the Taogu Sword-asking Competition was not held at Jianze Sect, but at a small island in Shuize chosen by the Yue women. I heard that the venue would be changed every time the Sword-asking Competition took place...

"In short, no one knows the location of the mountain gate of Yunmeng Jianze."

Ouyang Rong suddenly asked:

"What about Li Yu? Does he know?"

"Li Yu's youngest daughter was accepted as a disciple by the Second Lady, but he himself does not know the location of Jianze."

"Where are Fang Yiwu, Fang Juxiu, Fang Shengnan and the others? And Master Yizhi."

“I went to ask in person, but they didn’t know where Yunmeng Jianze was.

“The Fang sisters had two Yunmeng Tokens, but after the Twin Peaks Battle, they wanted to take the Yunmeng Tokens with them into Jianze, but they lost their way of contact, and their usual contact point was abandoned.

"It seems that Yunmeng Jianze has cut off all connections with the mountainside, and no one knows when it will be restored. Now the Yue girl cannot be found in the Jiangnan area."

Behind the desk, Ouyang Rong was somewhat quiet.

Yan Liulang said somewhat unhappy:

"Isn't Yunmeng Jianze very arrogant? Why is he shrinking back now and hiding so deeply... No wonder he is called a hidden sect. I don't know where he is hiding, and he calls himself a renunciation sect."

Ouyang Rong interrupted softly:
"Okay. Any news from Taoist Master Zhang?"

"Last time, Taoist Zhang sent a letter from Longhu Mountain saying that he had completed his mission and was going to go down the mountain to help the Ming Mansion gather information. I don't know what's going on now."

"When Taoist Zhang arrives in Xunyang, please inform me immediately. Also, continue to search for Jianze and Yuenu."

"Yes, Mingfu!"

(End of this chapter)