Sword from the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 24: Golden Purple Flying General! (Thanks to the Neurons Alliance!)
On the ninth day, the corpse of the commander of the Tiger and Leopard Camp floated on the Cai River.

When the morning light first broke, the bluestone pavement of Fule City was already glowing.

The hawking sounds on the street became louder and louder.

Zhou Yi, who had just come out of Cangyan Mountain, looked around at both sides of the city gate tower and breathed a sigh of relief. There was no wanted poster on the wall.

There are always some desperate people who are eager to hunt for the bounty from the government. If you have this thing, you must always be on guard against being targeted.

After spending several days in the mountains, his hair was inevitably disheveled and his shirt wrinkled when he emerged. Perhaps it was because he had absorbed the spiritual energy of the mountains for a few days that he did not look slovenly, but rather had a kind of otherworldly aura.

If you wear a Taoist robe, people will inevitably think you are an outsider.

The injury healed and his skills increased.

Zhou Yi's spirit and energy were at the top, but he had a very light appetite. As soon as he entered the city, he wanted to find something to eat.

Touched the body
my money!
It’s all gone, all the copper coins, gold and so on.

The old man has done a lot of harm to people!
After asking passersby, Zhou Yi found "Wanjitang" near the government office in the city.

It is the store of Cao Fu in Yangqu.

He packed up and sold all the herbs he had found in Cangyan Mountain these days for twenty cents, which was about the same as a day's wages for a wine shop clerk.

It’s not really black, after all, these herbs have not been dried in the sun.

The owner of Wanjitang is a middle-aged man in his forties, his surname is Qian.

He saw Zhou Yi looking around after selling medicine but not leaving the house, so he couldn't help but ask with a smile, "Sir, is there anything else you need?"

Zhou Yi glanced around and asked, "Did a man named Dou leave any message with you?"

The shopkeeper was stunned at first, then suddenly came to his senses.

He stared closely at the man in the court. Not to mention his handsomeness, his temperament was very unusual.

I was immediately panicked.

"That's right. Last time, Butler Sun said that this person is less than twenty years old and has an outstanding temperament."

'It's really that Yongqiu legend!'

Shopkeeper Qian groaned inwardly, "The price I gave for the herbs just now was too low."

At this moment, I can't care about these things, I just say respectfully:

"Sir, please come in."

Shopkeeper Qian lifted a curtain and Zhou Yi followed him inside. He took out a gray cloth package and asked cautiously:
"Excuse me, is that so?"

Zhou Yi interrupted him: "Taiping Dao."

Shopkeeper Qian no longer had any doubts and handed the package to him: "These are all left by the brave man named Dou."

He took a deep breath and turned to serve tea, but Zhou Yi stopped him and said, "Do you remember how many days ago you left this?"

"It's clear. It's only four days apart."

Another customer came in and was calling for help. Zhou Yi asked the shopkeeper to go over and opened the package to check it himself.

First there was a folded piece of paper. When I unfolded it, I saw that the handwriting was crooked and barely legible.

"Brother, the Yingyang Prefecture army has already arrived from Kaocheng to Xiangyi. Their target should be the rebel army in Taikang."

"Lai Changming of the Baling Gang's carriage turned back from Zhecheng and joined Yuwen Chengdu's army."

"..."

There were only these two pieces of important news, and after reading them, Zhou Yi felt that Fule was not safe.

This place is not far from Xiangyi and Taikang.

He was temporarily powerless to do anything about the Baling Gang incident, and he also didn't have the ability to fly into the Yingyang Army camp to rescue them.

In addition to this piece of paper, the package also contained a lot of five-zhu coins and some commonly used medicines.

Zhou Yi took some copper coins for medicine and carried them with him. He also asked the shopkeeper to bring paper and pen, and left a note in the package.

This was the place he and Dou Kui had agreed to meet.

After some time, Dou Kui will surely return.

When Shopkeeper Qian sent Zhou Yi out, a medicine clerk saw that he looked uneasy and couldn't help asking:

"Manager Qian, this young man looks very unfamiliar to me. What kind of guest is this that you are so curious about? The last time the butler came here, you were not like this."

“Go, go, go~!”

Shopkeeper Qian scolded, "Go and crush those cassia seeds. Don't ask any more questions."

He sternly warned, "This is the old master's guest, don't say anything to others."

The guy smiled and said "oh", and didn't find it strange anymore.

Shopkeeper Qian was sweating and stood at the door looking from afar. In the blink of an eye, the man was gone.

At this time, I felt quite regretful for offering too low a price for the herbs. On the one hand, I was afraid of offending others, but on the other hand, I also felt that I had done something unjust.

The Taiping Taoist Temple in Yongqiu originally cured illnesses and saved lives and did many good deeds.

There was a big fire in the Taoist temple this time, but the Taoist priest did not forget to distribute rice to the poor.

The Taoist temple is gone, but more people still remember the good things about the Taoist priest.

……

While Shopkeeper Qian was feeling extremely complicated, Zhou Yi had already found a bun shop in the alley.

At first I felt that it was unreasonable for the Sui Dynasty to have such a food shop, but then I thought that there was Lao Feng’s vegetable and meat buns in Jiangdu South Gate Restaurant, so it was not strange that Fule had a bun shop.

He sat down, ate about ten in a row, and ordered a few more baskets.

This made the shop owner suspicious, thinking that he hadn't eaten for many days and came here hungry and looking for a quick meal.

Only after Zhou Yi paid did the store feel comfortable entertaining this important customer.

Although the wild fruits and fish in the mountains are delicious, they are also bland.

Zhou Yi took another big bite of the meat bun, puffed out his cheeks and let out a long breath.

A smile spread across his face.

The flavor of life is still there.

Zhou Yi was only eight-tenths full and had planned to take some more food for the journey as he was heading out of the city towards the south.

Suddenly, my ears became alert and I heard some unusual movement deep in the alley.

It sounds like a fight!
He didn't rush to take the buns, but stood at the entrance of the alley and looked inside.

The ordinary people in the bun shop didn't notice it, as they naturally didn't have Zhou Yi's hearing ability.

There seems to be no movement.

Thinking that he might be hallucinating, he walked deeper into the alley.

This place is close to Fule Center, with alleys crisscrossing and breakfasts sold everywhere, such as Hu Bing, wheat porridge, steamed cakes, etc.

Suddenly there was a smell that was very different from the smell of breakfast.

“Blood smell!”

He walked quickly, passing through two alleys, and the smell of blood became stronger and stronger.

I saw some people lying in all directions on the side of the road. I sniffed and found that they were all dead!

Ok?
Zhou Yi had sharp eyes and caught a glimpse of a piece of oil paper sticking out from a person's chest. He pulled it out and saw that it was a portrait.

The edges of the portrait were thick and thin, with many burrs and a broken piece. It must have been torn off the city wall.

Looking inside the portrait again, it was already stained with blood and could not be seen clearly.

There was an official seal on the border, which turned out to be from the Jiyin County Government, which was Heze, a long way from here.

There were also a few black words that read "Catch the traitor."

I couldn't see clearly behind.

"It seems these are the gangsters hunting for bounties from government offices."

Zhou Yi understood what was happening and followed a pair of bloody footprints. He turned into an alley and saw a burly man lying on the ground, breathing more out than in.

Thinking of the words "capture the traitors", Zhou Yi felt that he was "a fellow wanderer in this world".

I want to see what kind of traitor you are.

He took out a pill for regulating qi and blood and stuffed it into the big man's mouth.

He lifted him from behind and walked deeper into the alley.

"It's quite heavy, at least two hundred pounds."

Zhou Yi weighed it up and luckily he had pure internal energy, so an ordinary person would not be able to move it.

Carrying the big man, they walked deeper into the alley.

Less than a cup of tea after he moved the people away, suddenly seven or eight people passed through the alley together.

They also saw the bodies of those gangsters.

"All dead."

The speaker spoke in the Guanzhong dialect and muttered, "The sternum is broken, and there are footprints. This person must be very strong."

"Hey, this guy died after taking two punches. It seems the person who hit him didn't have enough strength left."

After checking several bodies in succession, Yue Sigui stood up and said, "There's nothing we're looking for."

"Military advisor, what should I do?"

He looked at the pretty long-haired military advisor standing beside him, and a few more people came up and said that they couldn't find it in the nearby alleys either.

Shen Luoyan pondered for a few seconds and made a decisive decision:

"We can't delay here. Zhang Xutuo's men will pass by here. We must avoid them and go to Taikang first."

"Indeed, it is more important to deal with the Yingyang Palace Army," Yue Sigui said, "I guess Mi Gong should still be in the Yingyang Palace Army. This time, with the help of internal and external forces, we will defeat Yuwen Chengdu and make a great impact on the Central Plains."

"Taikkang has gathered many heroes!"

Wang Bodang, dressed in white, said with a smile, "Sigui, don't you see what Taikang is like?"

"Princes, generals and prime ministers, would you rather have the seed?"

"That's Wu Guang's hometown."

At this point, Wang Bodang's tone became much more heroic:

"Two heroes fought against Qin's tyranny, leaving behind a legacy that we are now igniting. Wherever there is tyranny, there is resistance. We will fight to the death, and we will fight to the death. Life and death are of no concern."

Yue Sigui nodded: "Yang Guang is incompetent, we should choose another wise leader."

"I thought of Chishiro and hoped he could cooperate with Mi Gong."

"What a pity for the Taiping Heavenly Master."

Shen Luoyan knew that these two people were great at chatting. If they were not stopped, they could chat from dusk to dawn.

"Stop chatting"

"I don't know what happened, but a lot of martial arts masters have suddenly flooded into Fule City. We don't have time to get involved. Let's go."

After hearing this, Wang Bodang and Yue Sigui followed Shen Luoyan.

But they didn't know that this group of people had just left.

Various groups of people appeared in the alley one after another, and the corpses were touched over and over again.
……

Zhou Yi carried the big man to the end of the alley, where there was a dilapidated temple.

I saw the plaque was dilapidated, withered grass had invaded the steps, the two doors were half-closed, and the lattices were covered with cobwebs.

He lifted his foot and pushed the door open, and saw a large hall and two monks' quarters inside.

"Bang~!"

With a loud noise, the old ashes fell from the door.

Because the door was too low and the plaque was tilted, and the man was tall and strong, when Zhou Yi raised his foot to step over the step, the man's head tilted and knocked a corner of the plaque off.

The big man felt a headache while he was drowsy, and it seemed like he opened his eyes. Then he fainted again.

Not good!

He quickly reached out his hand to feel its breath.

Fortunately, he didn't die.

Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief, as he almost failed to save the man but was stabbed in the back.

Entering the main hall, I saw a clay Buddha statue with dust on its eyebrows and eyes. The golden body had long since peeled off, revealing the rotten wooden frame. It looked like it was many years old.

He had seen many small temples like this along the way.

Another large one is Qing'an Temple.

Fule is a special place. The Qing'an Temple in the east of the city was built by Liu Longxiu.

Liu Long was a cavalry general under Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu. He was granted the title of Marquis of Fule for his military achievements. He was a believer in Buddhism, and many small temples in Fule were established at that time.

The current one is also a relic of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Put the big man down and practice meditation while waiting for him to wake up.

But after more than an hour, he still didn't wake up.

Zhou Yi stared at the man, hesitating.

"We met by chance, and I've done my best. How about just leaving him here?"

"Shui Shui."

The man seemed to have sensed something and was about to wake up, mumbling a request for water.

Zhou Yi ran out of the temple and used a broken bowl he found in the hall to fetch a bowl of clear water from the ditch, mixed it with medicine to regulate qi, and fed it to the big man.

"Gurgling."

He drank the bowl of water, and his breathing gradually became smoother and he no longer called for water.

He smacked his lips and then shouted, "Light, so light. Wine. Give me wine."

Zhou Yi held his forehead: "You can't drink like this."

Hearing his voice, the dazed man was startled and suddenly woke up.

When he opened his eyes, his pair of leopard eyes were as bright as lightning!
Just because of his weakness, his eyes dimmed quickly, but Zhou Yi was reflected in his pupils.

"cough, cough"

After coughing several times, the big man covered his chest and actually sat up with his hands.

He squeezed his eyes shut, then opened them again to regain consciousness.

He looked closely at his hands.

If he didn't die, he was rescued.
"Ahem, little brother, but you saved me?"

Zhou Yi said frankly:
"You fainted in the alley, and I carried you here from the corpses. When you asked for water, I scooped a bowl from the river for you and gave you some blood-regulating and qi-regulating medicine."

After hearing this, the big man looked over intently.

After a few breaths of silence, he suddenly knelt forward from a half-sitting position, kowtowed and said, "Benefactor!"

Zhou Yi didn't expect him to react so strongly. He was not used to being worshipped by others, so he hurried forward to help him up.

"It's just a small effort, there's no need to do this."

He felt that this man was a man of character, but after several encounters with him, Zhou Yi became more cautious. "Where are you from, bro?"

The big man coughed and said without hesitation: "I am from Jiyin County, Caozhou."

Zhou Yi thought of the wanted poster and nodded secretly: "Who are those people chasing you?"

"There were Zhang Xutuo's men, but I've already shaken them off. Those fighting here, ahem, are all lackeys of the Yingyang Sect."

The big man's face was filled with anger, and he took a breath and said, "The Yingyang faction has always been willing to serve as the court's lackeys. Seeing that Yang Guang is unreliable, they changed their stance and tried to please the Turks.

I had a conflict with them near Liangwang Terrace, and the Yingyang Faction received an official notice, intending to kill me."

"But the ones who came here were just a few kittens."

He reached out and touched the knife wound on his chest:
"These external injuries are actually not serious. Shan's injuries were mainly caused by Zhang Xutuo."

Zhou Yi listened to his story and wanted to ask more questions.

Suddenly, when he heard the name "Shan Mou", he immediately looked at the big man's face carefully.

He had leopard eyes, a face as red as a date, and thick eyebrows slanting down to his temples. The muscles in his shoulders and arms bulged, as if he possessed immense strength.

This facial feature is exactly in line with my Taiping Dao.

If the master saw his muscular body, he would definitely grant him the title of a Taoist priest.

Zhou Yi smiled a little: "I don't know your name, Brother Shan."

The big man coughed again and said with a cupped hand, "No big name, just Shan Xiongxin."

Zhou Yi's eyes lit up. It was Jiyin County, Caozhou, that's right!
The fake Zheng Shan Xiongxin chased the King of Qin with a spear in hand.

There is no duplicate name, it really is this person.

"Benefactor, do you know me?"

Shan Xiongxin was puzzled. Even though he was injured and weak, he noticed that Zhou Yi's expression had changed.

"I have never met you, old man. Your name reminds me of an old friend, so I feel a sense of familiarity."

Zhou Yi said slowly, "No need to call me benefactor anymore. My surname is Zhou and my name is Yi."

Shan Xiongxin repeated the name. He had just fled to the vicinity of Fule and had never heard of it before.

"As long as I live in this world, I will never forget this kindness!"

Shan Xiongxin bowed and said, "Brother Zhou, please leave now."

"Why?"

"Even though I've shaken off Zhang Xutuo's men, they'll definitely catch up. Their eyes and ears are much sharper than those thieves from the Yingyang Sect. It's too dangerous for them to be with me."

After saying that, Shan Xiongxin touched his swollen and painful forehead, and couldn't remember when he was injured.

Zhou Yi looked at his head and felt a little guilty, and immediately suggested:

"Since we can't stay in Fule City, let's leave the city together."

Shan Xiongxin shook his head slightly.

He looked at Zhou Yi and thought to himself, "This little brother must be new to the martial arts world and has a simple mind. He doesn't know how dangerous my current situation is. It's better not to implicate him."

Just as he was about to refuse, he saw the little brother in front of him suddenly stand up straight and look towards the monks' quarters on the left side of the dilapidated temple!

He was injured at the time, and his hearing was only one-tenth or one-twelfth of his usual level.

"Trouble is coming."

Zhou Yi's voice reached his ears, and after a few breaths, Shan Xiongxin heard the sound.

The person came very quickly. Before the noise started, he was already standing on the mottled wall of the monk's room!
The man was over forty years old, with a face as sharp as a knife, two long brows, and a murderous look in his eyes. Two short spears crossed and emerged from his shoulders, emitting a cold and sharp light.

Shan Xiongxin frowned, recognized the person, gritted his teeth and stood up: "Okay, you came quickly!"

"The masters of the Jin Zi Camp always travel together. Why are you here alone? Zhang Xutuo is really underestimating Shan!"

After Shan Xiongxin finished speaking, he said to Zhou Yi:
"Little brother, this matter has nothing to do with you, let's go."

He revealed the other party's origins and winked at Zhou Yilian, not wanting him to lose his life in vain.

But Zhou Yi just stood there stupidly after hearing this, feeling extremely anxious.

"Don't you see through such a dangerous situation?"

"Hey, young people who are so foolish, how dare they walk in the world!"

If it was an ordinary person, it would be fine, but Zhou Yi did him a favor.

Shan Xiongxin sighed deeply, his words softened a bit, and said to the man above:

"This matter has nothing to do with others. Just don't make things difficult for him. You can take Shan's head to Zhang Xutuo!"

He turned to look at Zhou Yi and shook his head at him.

However.
Shan Xiongxin suddenly felt something was wrong. After the master under Zhang Xutuo glanced at him, it seemed that his attention was no longer on him.

The same is true for Brother Zhou next to him.

The two of them were arguing with each other, staring at each other. The intention to fight was just a matter of thought, so no one responded to his words.

In this way, he became an outsider.

His eyelids twitched, and doubts surged in his heart.

As the rebel that Zhang Xutuo had designated to be captured, the word "merit" was engraved on his forehead, but after the master from the Jinzi Camp took one look at him, he lost interest.

It seems like it has no value anymore.
This. What is going on?

"God blesses me. Yu is really very lucky."

The master looked at Zhou Yi and suddenly sneered. Shan Xiongxin was puzzled and stared at him, wanting to hear what he had to say.

"A great turmoil broke out in Yongqiu. The illusory Taoist book caused unrest in the martial arts world, and people were overwhelmed by the chaos."

"The Yingyang Prefecture army suffered heavy losses, and many other forces entered the Waihuang, Kaocheng, and Xiangyi areas. Even my general was forced to withdraw from the battle line with Wang Bo and advance southward."

"did not expect"

"The person behind this is actually here."

The man smiled and said to Shan Xiongxin, "I will bring your head back. The general will praise me for my ability and reward me with half a pound of Shaodaozi."

He pointed at Zhou Yi and said, "If I bring this man's head back, it will be a slap in the face of the entire Tiger and Leopard Camp."

"What?" Shan Xiongxin was shocked.

He looked at Zhou Yi and never imagined that this elegant-looking young man had such a powerful background.

Shan Xiongxin thought: "When the people from the Jinzi Camp see him, they won't even care about my head."

It seems that Brother Zhou is also a traitor, and a big traitor at that.

"The masters of the Tiger and Leopard Camp have broken your hands. I have to be careful today."

The man squinted his eyes and said in a low voice, "Master Yongqiu, you are a very special person in Yu's heart."

In Shan Xiongxin's eyes, the previously kind and gentle Brother Zhou seemed like a different person.

He looked up at the masters of the Golden and Purple Camp without a trace of fear:

"You talk a lot, but you'll die quickly."

Zhou Yi said to Shan Xiongxin, "Brother, I'll bet you a five-zhu coin."

Shan Xiongxin regained his composure and asked, "How do we bet?"

Zhou Yi said, "If he draws his spear and attacks, I bet the time he can breathe won't be as long as the time he spent talking just now."

Shan Xiongxin was so amused that he didn't even consider the life-or-death crisis at the moment, and laughed so hard that he coughed repeatedly:

"Alright! I've never met someone as interesting as Brother Zhou, so I'll make a bet with you!"

Zhou Yi smiled slightly and said to the man on the wall:
"Masters of the Golden and Purple Camp, come on, take action!"

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