stepping on the moon and asking green hills

Several people waited for a long time in the front hall with their goods, and the strong man stood by the side all the time, looking at Jiang Mian repeatedly.Jiang Mian moved a few steps to the side, avoiding the naked eyes that fell on her body.

He was distracted by the stare, and the knuckles of his clenched fists were white.

Although the Tianyun Sect is located in the Western Regions and had little contact with the Central Plains after the Great War many years ago, there are many decorations from the Central Plains in this sect, and even the clothes and hair accessories on the young girls all reflect the Central Plains traditions.Bai Qiuling looked around and saw that this place was no different from Bixin Gate, so he whispered to Tang Yun, "It looks normal."

"I've never been here before. If that bastard remembers correctly, then we should be in the reception hall of Tian Yun Sect."

The strong man was still looking at Jiang Mian, as if he was looking at a sheep or a cow. His eyes fell on Jiang Mian like food, which suddenly made Jiang Mian's stomach churn, and he almost wanted to vomit in front of everyone. come out.But he would never lose his composure like this. For the sake of the overall situation, he endured all kinds of dissatisfaction and disgust.

Bai Qiuling finally caught a glimpse of this uncomfortable look. Although he was a few months younger than Jiang Mian, he stood up silently at this moment and pulled Jiang Mian behind him again.But Jiang Mian's reaction was a little slow, he couldn't change his left and right feet, and he almost fell with a wave of his hands. Fortunately, Bai Qiuling helped him with his backhand, so he was able to stand still.

Bai Qiuling was about to speak, but Tang Yun immediately raised the fan and pressed it on his arm to prevent him from speaking. He walked up to the strong man himself, put the handle of the fan against his shoulder, and secretly forced him to take two steps back.

The strong man immediately said angrily: "What are you doing?!"

Tang Yun sneered again, and said, "I thought your Excellency was acupointed, and you stood here motionless—you couldn't even move your eyeballs."

The strong man couldn't understand his sarcasm in the Central Plains dialect, so he opened his mouth and asked in a serious manner: "What did you say?" Judging from the tone of this sentence, it was not provocative, but it made people listen to it. unhappy.Tang Yun slowly restrained the smile on his lips, took a step towards the strong man, tapped his shoulder with a fan, and said word by word in the language of the Western Regions:

"I said, if you look at him again, I'll goug out your eyes."

The strong man and Bai Qiuling were both startled, and Jiang Mian was stunned as if he was nailed to the spot, unable to speak.

Bai Qiuling was the first to react and asked, "You still talk about them?"

Tang Yun responded to him with a smile: "A little bit." Then he reacted quickly and blocked the hand that the strong man stretched out angrily, pushing him back a few steps.

The conflict broke out in an instant. Although the strong man was taller than Tang Yun, he was indeed a bit of brute force. After several rounds of fighting, the two did not take advantage of any advantage, but fell to the ground in disgrace.He fell on the ground and let out a low growl from his throat, but when he got up, he had an extra dagger in his hand, and Tang Yun had no choice but to raise his hand to block it with a cold light.

The strong man has already rushed towards Tang Yun, Bai Qiuling's eyes are sharp and his hands are quick, and a wave of internal force gathers in the palm of his hand, Qing Yu suddenly flew out of his hand to block Tang Yun, the strong man held a dagger and hit Qing Yu's scabbard just right The shock made his tiger's mouth numb, and the dagger fell to the ground with a bang, and he also fell to the ground in embarrassment.

"Stop!" At this moment, a bright voice came from the sky to stop the strong man from picking up the knife and pounced on it again. They turned their heads in response, and saw a middle-aged man coming out of the inner room, followed by two people holding the knife. Candlelight believers.

A man dressed in a black robe walked up to the strong man and grabbed his wrist with one hand, and then heard a crisp sound, the strong man fell to the ground in pain, covered his wrist with the other hand and rolled around on the ground, cursing , the Central Plains dialect is mixed with foreign languages, and it is impossible to hear exactly what was said.

The man in black robe lightly folded his hands in front of his chest, and solemnly saluted the Western Regions to Tang Yun and his party, and said with a smile: "I'm a guest from afar, and I'm frightening everyone. I hope you will forgive him for his offense, Er."

Tang Yun carefully sized up the black-robed Mejik, while Jiang Mian walked up to Bai Qiuling, approached him and whispered in his ear, "Mejik means 'kindling' in the language of the Western Regions."

"Fortunately, you showed up in time, otherwise this Aizpal would have been scooped up by me."

eyes. Tang Yun put away the folding fan in his hand, tidied up his clothes, made up a name, and said casually: "My name is Xunqiu, a businessman from the Central Plains. "

McJick bowed to Tang Yun again: "Boss, the master was busy last night. I heard that you have a lot of tea to sell to us, so I specially told me to treat you well. I wonder if you got up early today, have you had breakfast?"

"Since it's a business relationship, we Central Plains people pay attention to clean and tidy business. If your master is not here, you can exchange beef and mutton for us." Tang Yun said.

McGeeke nodded, and then asked: "How much bacon does Boss Xun want to change?"

Tang Yun had done a lot of business, but he hadn't done much business with people from the Western Regions. He looked back at Bai Qiuling, and always felt that the expression on Bai Qiuling's face was so indescribable.He took the fan and tapped it on his palm, pursed his lips for a moment of silence and then said nonsense, "I'll change as many as you have."

Jiang Mian raised her hand and pinched the center of her brows, with a heartbroken look on her face.

But he dared not say it.

Tian Yunjiao just pointed at beef and mutton to live. There is no rice and no other things. Occasionally, some other dishes have to be replaced with beef and mutton. Tang Yun said that he wanted to replace all beef and mutton. Didn’t he tell the person in front of him clearly? Is it the first time for McGee to come back to the Western Regions to do business?

Jiang Mian looked at Mejik, and sure enough, the man was also shocked.

But soon McGee laughed and said, "The tea leaves may not be enough to find the boss."

Tang Yun quickly asked back: "I can add some more cloth——Your Excellency should have heard of the cloth from Yongluo Town in the Central Plains?"

McJick still smiled and said: "I've heard it, but Yongluo's cloth has become very expensive after entering the Western Region market. In our place, few people can afford it. In fact, tea is also very expensive. Why do you want to find a boss? Are you willing to exchange such expensive things with us for beef and mutton?"

"I came all the way here with cloth and tea, just to exchange your beef and mutton to sell to those rich people and officials in the Central Plains. The price they offered is not a small sum."

It was the first time I saw Tang Yun talking about business in a serious manner, and Bai Qiuling had slightly recovered from the sticky feeling of Tang Yun's pseudonym "Xunqiu", and quietly retreated to Jiangmian with two coughs. Standing by his side, his eyes flicked back and forth on Tang Yun, alerting the two people behind McJike.

"In that case," McJick turned around and said something to the two believers holding candles behind him, and the two left with candles in their hands without a sound from their feet.If you look closely, the footprints are also very shallow.He watched the two go back to the inner room, then turned to Tang Yun and said: "This batch of beef and mutton still needs to be marinated for one night. I have already ordered to go down and prepare a room for you, and you will stay here. It happens to be today." Tonight is our grand sacrificial event, and our honorable master Ilale specially invited a few people to come and watch it."

"What sacrificial activity?"

McGee was still laughing.

He turned his face, facing west, with his left hand on his right shoulder and his right hand on his left shoulder. He folded his hands more solemnly than when he first met.He bowed piously to the west, closed his eyes and said in a strong nasal voice: "Sacrifice to the moon, and beg the great Iranur to protect our fire."

Bai Qiuling had read many books, and when he heard the words from the mouth of McJike by Iranur and the priest, he secretly stretched out his hand and pinched Tang Yun's wrist, and nodded to him when he turned around.

Tang Yun then accepted McJick's invitation: "It sounds like a new thing,——since we have this honor, then we should be respectful and obedient. Thank you, Hierarch Yilale, for your kind invitation."

"A few here, please."

The goods were temporarily unloaded in the cellar by the side door of the front hall, and the rest of the people were arranged to rest in the rooms around the front hall. Tang Yun, Bai Qiuling, Jiang Mian and his party followed McGee into a stone door, and went inside again. walked for a long time.

The further you go in, the more unique the scenery inside is, truly and completely different from the Central Plains.

Bai Qiuling looked around at the stone walls, and heard from McJick that they went down from the north to the west a hundred years ago and used to live in caves. After arriving in the Western Regions, they built such a settlement in this barren land.live the whole

The earth, like the moon, is surrounded inwards, roughly a circle, and the descendants live in the stone houses. From the outside, it is impossible to see the hidden caves inside. Only when you walk into it, you will find that the surrounding wooden buildings are all illusions. , beyond the vestibule is an impenetrable fortress.

Mejik arranged three adjacent rooms for the three of them, and asked the congregation to stand outside the lane and wait for orders at any time.After McGeeke left, Tang Yun strolled to Bai Qiuling's room. Just as he opened the stone door to go in, Jiang Mian just came out of his room, and it seemed that he was also looking for them to meet.

Inside the stone room, Tang Yun was resting on the bed, while Bai Qiuling and Jiang Mian sat at the stone table and ate some snacks.Bai Qiuling looked back at Tang Yun, and said, "You're too impulsive today, if you make a move—"

"It doesn't matter if you do it, Mr. Jiang is the one I'm going to hire that bastard when I go back, how can I allow that man to stare at me? And I was being polite just now, didn't that McGeeke directly wring his wrist off when he came. "Tang Yun said in a flat tone, but Jiang Mian choked on a sip of tea and coughed a few times, her face flushed.

Bai Qiu was at a loss for words, and after a while he said again: "Let's get back to business."

"Okay, Qiuqiu, tell me."

Before speaking again, Bai Qiuling stood up and quietly walked towards the stone gate, listened carefully to the silence outside the gate, and then slowly opened his mouth: "Ilanur, in the legends of the Western Regions, is a bright moon with a holy radiance, and Mejik just now His master Yilale mentioned should be the leader of Tianyun Sect.

"It is said that Ilale is Ilanur—that is, the moon, and Ilale is the high priest of the moon. The ancestors of Tianyun Sect believed in fire and the moon, and believed that mountain torrents and earthquakes were all punishments from the moon, and thunderstorms , Drought, is the punishment of fire. They believe in animism, but the Tianyun religion is the best, and everything in the world is not as good as the Tianyun religion, and all living beings are not equal.

In order to maintain their status as the Lord of All Souls, or... they only believe that the moon and fire can realize the Lord of All Souls for them, can dominate everything, and can bless their generations of peace, so wherever they go To sacrifice by burning.Mr. Jiang was born in the Western Regions, so he should have heard of it. "

Jiang Mian frowned and nodded hesitantly, then took Bai Qiuling's words and continued, "It is indeed as you said, Ilanur of the Tianyun Sect is the source of all beliefs, and it is said that Ilale was the first Those who propose to burn the moon as a sacrifice will cover the land of the Western Regions at the time of the full moon. At this time, the holy glory of Ilanur will come and receive the gift from Ilanur. The Tianyun Cultists will use the most precious thing Thanks to Ilanur—later it was also said that in order to invite Ilanur to Hui Zepu to descend on the Western Regions, I used living people to sacrifice, but no matter what kind of statement it is, Illal is the high priest. Became the leader of Tianyun Sect."

Tang Yun never believed in ghosts and gods, these legends taught him that they were all nonsense, but he quickly grasped the point from Bai Qiuling and Jiang Mian's narration, "What do you mean, they are going to Use living people to sacrifice to the moon in the sky?"

"Well, if I'm not wrong, this grand sacrifice is related to the success of the Tianyun Sect's invasion of the Central Plains. I'm afraid there will be many people offering sacrifices." Jiang Mian worried.

Bai Qiuling carefully thought about the cause and effect of the past half a year. From the situation of the sword book more than [-] years ago to what he saw and heard on the way to find the sword, it seemed that a ray of light finally came through the fog, and suddenly thought of a The details that have been neglected by them for a long time, "Shan Sanyuan is from the Central Plains, why did he go to the Tianyun Sect and the Tianyun Sect 'helped' him with so many things, why did he kidnap the young master of Fengtai, why Bixin Gate—"

Thinking about this following Bai Qiuling's words, Jiang Mian suddenly raised his head, and said anxiously: "Shan Sanyuan wants the sword and the sword manual, and the Tianyun sect wants to invade the Central Plains. They tried to help Shan Sanyuan get rid of Tang Daxia and Mrs. Tang. He got rid of many people with lofty ideals in the martial arts, and he continued to support him behind the scenes. Shan Sanyuan has been helping them confuse everyone's attention and split the Central Plains sect for so many years. All this was known to his father, but Bixinmen was not arrested alone. reason.....

"Fengtai is in the east, and Xuanyue Palace is in the west. At the last step, Tian Yunjiao, a sect with a long tradition of offering sacrifices, wants not only to hold the bargaining chip in its hands, but to go wherever the moonlight goes. The sacrificial objects of Zhixi—the young master of Fengtai and Feng'er."

"For Tianyun Sect,

Invading the Central Plains is as important as sacrificing Iranur, and even the latter is more important.The Jiangmen master is very aware of this sacrifice, which is why he has been cautious for so many years, and...and the elder Tang Wan, the elder sister of the pavilion master, probably found out that there was such a big conspiracy behind the dispute in the sword manual. Ding Wanwan told Sister Qing not to tell the truth to the pavilion owner, how could they be stopped if only the pavilion could do it alone. " Bai Qiuling was talking, and slowly walked to the bedside to reach out his hand to Tang Yun, Tang Yun also slowly reached out and held his hand in his palm.

He looked at Tang Yun, and said again: "There is only one thing I don't quite understand right now."

The man smiled at him, his brows and eyes were full of insightful smiles, and he was very puzzled.

Tang Yun said: "I don't understand anything, I will tell Qiuqiu."

"I don't understand why Ah Yue said that she saw Fengtai's two children and wanted to poison President Su."

"This matter is easy to say." Tang Yun sat up from the bed, and regardless of whether Jiang Mian was watching, he raised his hand to wrap around Bai Qiuling's waist from behind, and hugged him in his arms, still ambiguously He said "you guessed it".

Seeing this, Jiang Mian immediately turned around and pretended to lower her head to straighten her clothes.

Bai Qiuling said: "...I can't guess."

"Because those snacks and wine were meant to be served to Fang Moxun, that old thing——I saw it."