Strange Tale of Qingluan

With a serious face, Yingqing asked responsibly, "I've come to such a field, but do I know I'm wrong?"

Huang Yan smiled lightly: "I am not wrong, why admit it?"

Yingqing was furious, raised a hand, and slapped him hard. This slap knocked off his mask, and the messy silver hair hung on his face. It turned out to be a peerless and beautiful face.

After Yingqing stopped, he blamed: "I was in vain, why did I accept such a traitor like you!"

Su Zhongming was standing below, and he couldn't help being surprised when he heard these words, even Shang Yuan Hexiang was also surprised.

No one would have thought that Huang Yan also came from Qingluan City, and is also the beloved disciple of the elder Yingqing, one of the four guardians of Qingluan City.

Huang Yan didn't change his face, raised his head, facing the breeze, still so aloof and staunch: "I am no longer your apprentice! You have already accepted a new apprentice! You have already severed ties with me!"

Yingqing was furious, but he knew that it would be useless to get angry, so he said coldly: "Okay! Okay! Today, this old man will avenge the vengeance of everyone in Qingluan City who died because of the Mufeng Society all these years!"

As soon as the words fell, Yingqing took the lead and fought with Huang Yan.

Shangyuan He Xiang murmured: "I once learned that Liu Mufeng of Qingluan City colluded with outsiders and founded Mufeng Club after rebelling in Qingluan City. I always thought that the head is the descendant of that outsider, but I didn't expect it! Like Liu Mufeng, he is also a traitor in Qingluan City..."

Su Zhongming replied: "But, as one of the Dharma protectors, why did Huang Yan join hands with Liu Mufeng to rebel? Could it be that he and Master Jianqing are..."

Before he finished speaking, Huang Yan missed his hand, and Ying Qing slapped him hard. He fell from the high steps and fell to the ground. He spat out a mouthful of blood, and with all his strength, he managed to hold up his upper body, but he was also brave. No, he coughed, and the disciples of Qingluan City took this opportunity to quickly surround him tightly.

At a high place, Monk Jianqing, who had been clasping his hands together, only nodded slightly to Yingqing, then turned and left, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Huang Yan yelled: "No! Yanfeng! You can't go! You can't go!" Unable to stand up forcibly, he wanted to crawl over, but only crawled one step, and countless white blades intertwined into thorns in front of him , so that he could only watch the high figure disappear, and screamed "no" heart-piercingly.

When Su Zhongming approached, Huang Yan was already sluggish and lost all fighting spirit.

Yingqing came to Su Zhongming's side, and suggested: "Mufeng Club has almost collapsed, but it doesn't have to be wiped out. It is enough to just bring the traitor, the old man, back to Qingluan City."

Su Zhongming nodded his head, and replied with a 'hmm', after thinking for a while, he hurriedly called Yingqing again: "Elder Yingqing!"

Yingqing stopped and turned back quietly.

Su Zhongming continued: "I didn't know Huang Yan was your apprentice until now. Now that Mufeng Club has collapsed, can you let me understand the past?"

Yingqing replied: "In order to protect the reputation of Qingluan City, Xiangxuanzhu deliberately concealed it from the new disciples, but concealed it from the city lord, because he did not want the new city lord to be too burdened. Now that the traitor has been captured, wait Go back to Qingluan City and talk to the City Lord in detail."

Su Zhongming responded with an 'um' again, and then raised his voice to issue an order: "Everyone in Qingluan City listens to the order, immediately withdraw from Shenhuan Villa, and escort Huang Yan back to Qingluan City!"

After the five cups of tea, the disciples of Qingluan City escorted Huang Yan and carried gold and jewelry out of the Shenhuan Villa, but the Shenhuan Villa has fallen from its former glory to a dark mess, with corpses everywhere and no one to bury it , the living and wounded left everything behind and ran for their lives.

After everyone in Qingluan City returned to the main rudder of Qingluan City by sea boat, Huang Yan was immediately imprisoned in an underground prison. His wrists and ankles were tightly locked with firm and thick chains. With his head down, letting his messy silver hair cover his face, he remained silent, looking like a dead person.

Su Zhongming bid farewell to Shangyuan Hexiang and his subordinates at Shenhu Mountain, then returned to Qingluan City with everyone in Qingluan City, and talked with Yingqing for two hours in the gazebo.

At this time, he learned that in the past, after Qingluan City was founded, Xuanwen Hemao invited Yingqing to join Qingluan City. Visiting the door, Yingqing had already observed Qingluan City carefully in the past 30 years, so he agreed, and joined Qingluan City with four of his disciples.

Xiangxuanzhu is the topmost floor of Qingluan City, and welcomes Qing to live in the Elder's Pavilion and perform the duties of elders. The four disciples under the seat are the guardians of Qingluan City because of their extraordinary talents. However, the guardians must not die, so the four of them took the immortal pill , Guarding Qingluan City with the body of a thousand-year-old King Kong.

Although this elixir can preserve youth for thousands of years, Qingluan City has set strict regulations that anyone who enters the Xiangxuan Building and takes the Immortality Pill can no longer get involved in the affair of his children.

Huang Yan and Zhu Yanfeng secretly fell in love with each other when they were learning skills in the Yingqing family. Yingqing didn't know about it, but after entering Qingluan City, Huang Yan knew the rules, but still secretly corrected Zhu Yanfeng.

Just because Huang Yan is the younger brother, Zhu Yanfeng favored Huang Yan, and he was half-shedding several times. However, the paper can't cover the fire, let alone such a big event as disobeying the iron rules. One night, someone met the two of them by chance. His violations were reported to the elders' pavilion.

Yingqing was furious, and decided to punish the two of them severely, but Zhu Yanfeng took all the blame for the crime, and after the whipping, he shaved off his family and spent a lifetime in self-reflection.The other elders in the Elder Pavilion were very sorry, and they only asked Huang Yan to bow his head in front of everyone and admit his mistake, accepting the ten-year whip, and no longer pursue the matter.

However, Huang Yan was so rebellious, every time he just said 'I'm not wrong!I am not wrong at all! '...

Yingqing lost his face, so he was thrown into prison, and he decided to deal with it in nine days. However, things were unexpected, and it happened that Liu Mufeng formed a rebellion with outsiders.

This person broke the contracts of the various countries, rescued Huang Yan, used Huang Yan to fight a bloody road, and then established the Mufeng Society with the gold stolen from Qingluan City. He originally wanted to occupy the mountain as the king, but Huang Yan did not Silly, secretly plotted against Liu Mufeng and seized the position of head.

He thought that as long as he had the supreme power in his hands, he would no longer have to be afraid of Qingluan City, and even arranged a scheme based on this to lure Zhu Yanfeng to make peace with him.

But I don't know if Zhu Yanfeng has already practiced renunciation and entered the Buddha deeply?I have been indifferent all the time. Over the years, I have only wandered between monasteries, doing good deeds and discussing Buddhism.

Now that Huang Yan has suffered a crushing defeat, although he is silent in the prison, he keeps thinking about the back that haunted him in his mind, and every time he thinks about it, his heart hurts, and he lowers his head even more, feeling sad.

After Su Zhongming talked with Yingqing, he said goodbye. He planned to go back to Wen Country by boat with Yi Yeqing to deal with the affairs of the government and the public. But before leaving Qingluan City, he went to the prison alone to visit Huang Yan for the last time.

When he reached the stone steps leading to the underground prison, he happened to meet Changyue who was slowly approaching from the bottom of the steps, and he opened his lips and said, "Changyue, the guardian? He also came to see Huang Yan?"

Changyue walked with her head down slightly, looking disappointed, but when she heard Su Zhongming's words, she raised her head and stopped: "The city lord? Is the city lord also?"

Su Zhongming nodded without hesitation, and responded with a soft 'hmm'.

Changyue sighed, and blamed himself: "It's half of my fault that he can become like this."

Su Zhongming was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "The matter of Huang Yan has nothing to do with you, how can you blame yourself?"

Changyue confessed: "Actually, I already knew about the matter between Senior Brother and Junior Brother Yan. I was only worried about telling Master that Master would expel the two of them from the sect. I've always been guilty."

Su Zhongming understood it clearly, and comforted him: "The cause and effect does not lie with you, it is just good luck playing tricks on people."

Changyue sighed again, didn't say much, just said: "The city lord should go and see him first, I'm going back to Le Nu Pavilion." After saying that, she bowed her head slightly to salute, and then continued to move up.

Su Zhongming also continued to walk down until he came to a closed iron gate, looked in through the small hole in the iron gate, and saw a white shadow in the darkness.The sparse light and shadows on the wall are mottled, and Huang Yan's disheveled silver hair is also like light and shadows. Although he is in a mess, sitting on the ground, he does not lose half his elegance.

After looking at it for a while, Su Zhongming opened his lips: "You used to wear a mask all the time, and I never knew your real face. Now that I see it, I find it even more strange—you are neither old nor ugly, why did you always wear it before?" mask?"

The figure in the cell remained motionless. Even after Su Zhongming finished speaking, the figure remained motionless like a stone.

Su Zhongming said again: "I heard that wearing a ghost mask can not only inspire courage, but also turn one's heart into a ghost-like heart. If this is true, then I sympathize with you."

The voice fell, and after a while, there was a burst of cold laughter from the cell, which sounded a little crazy.

After the laughter, a human voice came: "Qingluan City, how can you let a young boy be the city lord? It's ridiculous."

Although Su Zhongming was dissatisfied when he heard this, but thinking that Huang Yan was already a prisoner, he calmed down and said calmly: "When my father was the lord of the city, he was also at my age. How can he be called a brat?"

Huang Yan snorted softly, and said: "Get out! Don't waste your time trying to persuade me! I have no regrets after I have embarked on this path! There is nothing wrong at all!"

Su Zhongming said helplessly: "I just came to see you. Before returning to Wenguo, I heard about your past and thought you were a poor person, but if you don't turn around, Qingluan City will have to deal with it fairly."

Going down, there was nothing else to say, Su Zhongming turned around and left, but there was another sneer in the cell.Behind him, a stern voice shouted: "I am not wrong! I have never made a mistake! Hahahahahaha..."

Leaving Xiangxuanzhu, at the entrance of Xiangxuanzhu, Su Zhongming met Yi Yeqing, hurried to meet him, and asked with a smile: "Ah Qing! When did you come?"

Yi Yeqing replied: "I have been waiting for my lord here for a long time."

After hearing this, Su Zhongming couldn't help saying: "Why bother now? I'll go to you after I finish my work."

Yi Yeqing informed: "I'm ready, and I can leave for Wen Country at any time."

Su Zhongming continued to move: "Then let's go now! Go back early, so you can get your family affairs done sooner."

Qingluan City knew that the two of them were going to Wen Country, so they left a sea boat behind. When the two of them arrived at the pier, they boarded the ship and went straight to the Wen Country Wharf with the wind.

Three hours later, the boat arrived at Wen Country's largest pier very safely. The two of them disembarked, rented horses from the post station, and rushed back to Jinghongdu. By the time they arrived at Jinghongdu, it was already nightfall.

After Su Zhongming took a bath, he went to the Empress Dowager's bedroom as usual. After chatting with Shi Chaojing for a long time, he reported that the infant Li Zhen returned to his bedroom. A tall man came over, wearing a fur coat with a long sword hanging from his waist, he didn't look like a palace guard at all.

Su Zhongming was stunned for a moment, and quickly walked forward, quickly passing by the man's side, wanting to return to his bedroom as if nothing had happened.

Suddenly, a call came from behind: "Zhongming..."

Su Zhongming didn't look back, decided to be hard-hearted, and continued to walk quickly, but Li Zhen, who was in the swaddle, laughed and stretched out his little hand from the swaddle, probably recognizing the familiar voice, very happy.

When he saw it, he hurriedly stuffed Li Zhen's little hand back into his swaddling clothes, hugged it tightly, and continued to speed up his pace.

"I'll come back to make up for you, isn't it okay?" A loud voice from behind broke Jing Ye.

Su Zhongming gritted his teeth, didn't stop, and rushed straight to the bedroom. When he arrived at the bedroom, he turned around and found that there was no one else behind him except a few waiters and maids, so he walked into the bedroom safely.

When Li Zhen was put on the couch, Li Zhen started to cry and clenched his two small fists.

Su Zhongming comforted: "Zhen'er is good, don't cry, don't cry."

But the more he coaxed, the more Li Zhen cried so much that he hurt Zeng's calf. Su Zhongming couldn't help worrying, so he had to report Li Zhen and hand it to Gong'e. It still didn't work, Su Zhongming was more worried, originally wanted to sleep with the child tonight, but now, he was afraid that he would be disturbed by the child so that he couldn't sleep peacefully.

Gong'e proposed to send the child back to the Empress Dowager's bedroom, but Su Zhongming had no choice but to report the child again and returned to the Empress Dowager's bedroom.

At this time, Shi Chaojing was combing her hair by Gong'e and preparing to go to bed. When she heard that Su Zhongming had returned, she couldn't help feeling strange, so she went out to the outer room with her shoulder-length hair and asked, "What made you come back again?"

Su Zhongming said: "Help me find out, what is the reason, he is crying so hard?"

Shi Chaojing hurriedly picked up the infant Li Zhen, and saw that his face was full of tears, and his two round black eyes were still overflowing with tears, he couldn't help being very distressed, patted and coaxed, but Li Zhen was still "woooooooo" crying.

After a while, Li Zhen finally calmed down, and gradually fell asleep, and everyone in the hall felt relieved.

Shi Chaojing gently handed over Li Zhen to the nanny, who put Li Zhen in the cradle gently, and then asked Su Zhongming: "You told him he was fine when he went back, why did he start crying on the way?"

Su Zhongming lowered his head slightly, and confessed: "When I went back, I met Li Xuan. Zhen'er laughed when he saw him, but I ignored him and insisted on going back to the bedroom. When I arrived at the bedroom, Zhen'er cried..."

Shi Chaojing was slightly surprised: "What? The son-in-law is back?!" |

Su Zhongming raised his head in astonishment: "My mother doesn't know that he is coming back today? He didn't come to greet my mother?!"

Shi Chaojing shook his head, then said: "If you hadn't told Aijia, Aijia wouldn't have known he was back." After a pause, he glanced back at the cradle and guessed, "I'm afraid I saw a loved one I miss and want someone to accompany him." , but you refused, and that's why you cried, right?"

Su Zhongming said helplessly: "What's the use of him coming back to admit his mistake at this time?"

Shi Chaojing sighed, and persuaded: "Look, he didn't hurt you or hurt you anything. Since you come back and admit your mistakes, let's make peace. We are all a family. It's disgraceful to have trouble. .”

Su Zhongming was at a loss for his mind, and he just said perfunctorily: "I'm sleepy, go back to sleep first." After saying that, he turned around and went back the same way.On the way, he thought to himself: Where will Li Xuan go?Obviously came back, but didn't greet the Queen Mother?He didn't catch up to my bedroom either. Where could he go this late at night?

Along the way, he thought about this problem, and it was the same when he arrived in the bedroom, and it was the same when he was lying on the couch, thinking and thinking, probably because he was exhausted from running around for a few days, and suddenly fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

In the dream, there were countless flowers swaying in the wind, but none of the petals fell, and the golden light shone, which was very dazzling. Suddenly, a figure approached, with five fingers like demons, tearing apart this leisurely dream. Su Zhongming also came from the dream. Waking up in a start, when he opened his eyes, before he could catch his breath, he saw a person sitting quietly on the edge of his bed.

Undecided in shock, Su Zhongming hurriedly blurted out: "You! What are you doing here! Get out! Get out!"

Li Xuan looked at him calmly for a moment, then raised one hand, wiped his forehead lightly, and asked, "Did you have a nightmare?"

Su Zhongming was stunned for a moment, quickly pushed away the hand, and asked, "Why are you coming back? At that time, as I said, you are not welcome in Wen Country!"

Li Xuan withdrew his hand, and replied: "I know that you and the young master of the Murong family planned to kill Kou Xin together."

Su Zhongming blurted out: "I didn't do it for you! It's just that I can't understand how he enslaves so many people! He also covets beautiful women from other countries!"

Li Xuandao: "No matter what, you saved the Shaole Kingdom after all. Now, I have revived the royal family and reorganized the government. After a few years, the former Shaole Kingdom will be able to return."

Su Zhongming said lightly: "Then I can only say congratulations. From now on, I will govern my Wen country, and you will govern your Shaole country."

Li Xuan blurted out: "Zhongming. I don't ask you to appear at the Shaole Kingdom Festival as a queen. At the very least, you can forgive my impulsiveness at that time!"

Su Zhongming crossed his arms in front of his chest, and said calmly: "How do you ask me to forgive you?"

Li Xuan swore: "I won't hurt Meier."

Su Zhongming sneered slightly: "She is already the princess of Wen Kingdom! Even if you want to, you are not qualified!"

Listening to his tone, Li Xuan knew that he didn't intend to forgive, so he couldn't help showing a little panic, and quickly asked: "What do you want me to do to forgive my impulsiveness at that time?"

Su Zhongming thought about it carefully, made a decision, and replied: "Thinking about it, between us, I'm almost under him, but if you come to the market tonight, and I'm on top, maybe you can restore some of our feelings." .”

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, then slightly raised the corners of his lips, then lowered his head slightly, took out a small brocade pouch from his bosom, opened the brocade pouch, poured it into his palm, and dropped two gold rings, both engraved with hollowed-out mandarin ducks, different The most is the lettering in the center of the mandarin duck, one is the word "Xuan" and the other is the word "Ming".

Li Xuan picked up the ring engraved with the word 'Xuan', then picked up Su Zhongming's other hand, and put it on for him while talking: "I promise you."

Su Zhongming snorted softly, and took a closer look at the ring he was wearing, but he was dissatisfied: "It's so ugly! It's not as good-looking as that jade!"

Li Xuan replied: "The one you threw away after it was broken can't be repaired, so I had to order someone to make a new pair. I thought, if you throw it away again, among the thousands of flowers, as long as there is sunlight can be found."

Su Zhongming didn't care about his intention of replacing jade with gold, he just reminded: "If you don't come to the market tonight, don't beg me again! You must remember! I want to be the superior tonight!"

Li Xuan reluctantly responded with a 'yes', then took Su Zhongming into the Huai River, and said tenderly for a long time.

The author has something to say:

go for a walk this evening

but later than usual

A bunch of people are crowded and running on a road

Leaving a large cloud of carbon dioxide...

Aerobic exercise instantly becomes anaerobic exercise...

For the sake of health, I only walked around quickly and then went home (black line...)

It's better not to go to places with too many people to do sports