511. Flower and Knife(1/2)
Early that morning, after breakfast, Xiao Xinghan and Mu Yan received a notice that Ji Hongyu ordered Xiao Xinghan to come over as soon as possible.
The couple looked at each other and exchanged tacit glances. Xiao Xinghan got up and went out, and Mu Yan turned around to pack her luggage.
The Han family's Long Yanhua had been made into pills and put into two small medicines. The boxes containing the Long Yanhua and the treasure map were secretly gone before dawn and threw them into the vast sea outside Poyang City. Even if the dragon blood pill on them were seen next, no one would know that it was made of Long Yanhua.
A quarter of an hour later, Xiao Xinghan returned and said to Mu Yan: "You are going to the Lian family, prepare to leave."
Everything was expected by Xiao Xinghan. Just as it was dawn today, Han Chao went to Ji Hongyu and said that he was willing to discuss cooperation with the Lian family. In the future, the three families worked together to fight against the Qi Chen family, just asking the Ji family not to make enemies with the Han family because of misunderstandings.
Ji Hongyu proposed that he would not go to Wildfog City by himself, but would go back to Jinfang City directly, and send the great elder "Ouyang Jue" to accompany Han Chao to visit the Lian family together. Han Chao did not dare to say anything, so he had to agree and asked someone to arrange for the departure of Ji's family. He also exchanged the betrothal gifts brought by Ji Hongyu and Ji Yi, and added a generous gift as compensation.
Han Chao also told Ji Hongyu that Han Lie had bit his tongue and committed suicide. Han Qianqian was locked up and would not let her come out again.
Mu Yan had already packed her luggage, and the couple sat down and drank another cup of hot tea. Then Xiao Xinghan held a bag as big as when he came in one hand, and held Mu Yan with the other, and came out of Qingfengxuan.
A carriage was prepared at the gate of the lord's mansion in Poyang City. Xiao Xinghan and Mu Yan sat in, and the carriage took them towards the direction of the city gate.
When I got off the bus, I had already left the city gate and arrived at the coast.
Han Chao and Ji Hongyu stood on two ships respectively, ready to leave, just waiting for Xiao Xinghan and Mu Yan.
"Great Elder, follow Lord Han to Wanwu City for a walk. After the matter is agreed, go back to Jinfang City. Mrs. Ouyang will follow us first." Ji Hongyu said to Xiao Xinghan.
"Thank you, Lord, but I'll take her by my side to serve you." Xiao Xinghan said respectfully. "Ouyang Jue" and "Xiaohua" have always given people the impression that "Xiaohua" is serving "Ouyang Jue"'s daily life, and is an all-round maid who warms the bed.
Hearing this, Ji Hongyu didn't think much, and laughed: "Okay."
Ji Hongyu sent two disciples from the Ji family to send for Xiao Xinghan. Xiao Xinghan accepted them very readily and took Mu Yan and the two onto the ship where Han Chao was.
Ji Hongyu stood at the bow of the boat, bowed to Han Chao and said aloud: "Then Ji will go back to Jinfang City first and wait for good news from Lord Han!"
Han Chao squeezed out a stiff smile on his face and bowed and said, "Please don't worry, Brother Ji, Han will go to Jinfang City to visit Brother Ji and Senior Ji again."
The two ships left Poyang City together and soon parted ways, one headed towards Jinfang City and the other headed towards Wanwu City.
It takes seven or eight days to get from Poyang City to Wilson City. Xiao Xinghan and Han Chao did not communicate much, the main reason is that Han Chao was in a very bad mood. The main reason for the loss of the Han family's Long Yanhua and the treasure map. The second reason is that he has always been arrogant and has completely broken up with the Lian family in recent years. Now he has to take the initiative to ask for a door-to-door cooperation. Although he has to choose to do this for the sake of the overall situation, he has not been able to fully accept such a result psychologically.
Everything was born overnight. But on the other hand, after leaving Poyang City, Qi Ningyuan, who went to Luoying City as fast as possible, was in a worse mood than Han Chao, because although he was Chen Ji's pawn, except for this incident, he had been doing everything smoothly since childhood and had never encountered any setbacks.
Especially in recent years, Qi Ningyuan has become famous in the Apocalypse 6, which makes him very confident in his strength and firmly believes that he can get rid of Chen Ji's control sooner or later and unify the Apocalypse 6.
However, the things that have happened in recent times have made Qi Ningyuan unable to understand and even more difficult to accept. If the Wei family's affairs were done by Chen Ji secretly, okay, he admitted it! But who was the woman with a umbrella that I met on the sea? In the Han family, everything went smoothly this time, and he could accept the fact that "Ouyang Jue" ruined him, but the woman next to "Ouyang Jue" who was said to be powerless and had beautiful beauty actually controlled his most capable subordinates and snatched away the Long Yanhua and the treasure map! Every time Qi Ningyuan thought of this, he felt extremely depressed!
As a result, the two women who were difficult for Qi Ningyuan to understand and were extremely depressed, one was holding an umbrella in the black clothes, the other was domineering and fierce, the other was holding a bouquet of flowers in the white clothes, and the weak willows supported the wind. The figures of the two women were constantly intertwined in his mind, which made him feel a little headache.
Qi Ningyuan's deepest impression of the woman in black clothes she met at the sea was her thin back with an umbrella, while Qi Ningyuan saw the "Little Flower" girl she met at the Han family when "Little Flower" was knocked down by Han Qianqian with a drug...
Qi Ningyuan closed his eyes slightly, and the two backs alternated in his mind, one black and one white, and suddenly overlapped perfectly!
Qi Ningyuan suddenly opened his eyes, frowned tightly, his eyes were like fire, as if he had seen a ghost in the sun!
"What's wrong with Young Master?" The poison in the old man driving the boat was not fatal. After two hours, it was automatically relieved. He was driving the boat. He suddenly turned around and saw Qi Ningyuan's face, frowned and asked.
"She, are she... actually the same person?" Qi Ningyuan said gritting his teeth, his tone full of disbelief.
"Who did the young master say?" the old man asked again.
Qi Ningyuan seemed to have not heard it, immersed in his thoughts, his eyes changing again and again.
Reason told Qi Ningyuan that the woman in black clothes he met on the sea seemed like a black lotus that was independent of the world. She was arrogant and cold. How could she turn into a delicate little white flower that could not bear the beauty of her? How could she commit herself to a man like Ouyang Jue?
But intuition told Qi Ningyuan that the two overlapping backs, the moment he saw the back of "Little Flower" in the lord's mansion in Poyang City, the inexplicable sense of familiarity flashed away was not a coincidence...
Qi Ningyuan closed his eyes and opened it, calmed himself down, and sorted out his thoughts. At that time, he fell into the water from outside the Moon City and was going to Wakambu City. The woman was in the same direction as him. If she had not come from Moon City, or from the small affiliated cities of Moon City, among which were Xianluo Island, which Ouyang Jue was born.
From the Moon City to the Wild City and Jinfang City, it is also in the same direction, so the woman may be going to Jinfang City...
Thinking of this, Qi Ningyuan suddenly looked at the old man and asked coldly: "The information I found out at that time, when did the woman named Xiaohua beside Ouyang Jue go to Jinfang City?"
The old man was stunned for a moment and recalled, "Returning to the young master's words, when I found out the news, Ouyang Jue followed the Ji family to Jinfang City directly, but his woman, Xiaohua, was said to have been taken from Xianluo Island, and arrived later than Ouyang Jue. In terms of time... it seems to be Jinfang City that arrived on the eighth day of the April 19th."
"The eighth day of the fourth month...the eighth day of the fourth month..." Qi Ningyuan whispered this time, counting the time when he met the woman in black on the sea, the degree of that woman, the distance from the place where they met, to Jinfang City, and the roughly needed time.
After a while, Qi Ningyuan suddenly had a deep face, and he clenched his fists and said sternly: "It's her!"
The old man wanted to ask what Qi Ningyuan meant, but he didn't dare to ask when he saw Qi Ningyuan's expression.
After a while, Qi Ningyuan calmed down, but said to himself: "If it were her, how could she be like two people who were completely different? Which one is the real her..."
Qi Ningyuan's intuition has always been very accurate. More than one coincidence, he connected the two women who had cheated him recently and merged them into one person. But he felt a little incredible, because if it weren't for that back, he would never have thought that the two people were the same person because the gap between their personalities was too big.
The figure of the woman in black clothes who met at sea with cold eyes as cold as ice and murder without blinking, said inexplicably: "This is the real you, that little flower must have been deliberately disguised by you. Such a clever disguise technique, but what are you planning? Long Yanhua, treasure map..."
Gao Ming's disguise, Long Yanhua, Treasure Map... A figure of a slim boy wearing a silver mask suddenly popped up in Qi Ningyuan's mind. He suddenly widened his eyes and stood up from the boat, causing the boat to lose balance and shake violently.
"She, she, and him?" Qi Ningyuan's face seemed to be struck by lightning.
The old man felt something was wrong, so he simply stopped the boat and asked Qi Ningyuan softly: "Young Master, is it okay?" This was the first time in his life that he had always seen Qi Ningyuan, who had always been calm and rational, so he was so out of control. Even though he was cheated three times before, Qi Ningyuan was not so far. He looked a little... doubting his life...
"Time is totally up to date..." Qi Ningyuan said slowly, "Since she can disguise herself as a woman with very different personalities, then dressing up as a man and changing her voice is just a trivial matter for her... The figures of the three people are so similar..."
Qi Ningyuan really doubted life. The thing that made him most doubted was that there is really such a cunning woman like a fox and a demon in the world? When she met three times, she appeared in front of him with different identities, different looks and different personalities, making him unaware of anything. The first time he was unprepared and completely cheated; the second time he admitted that he was unreasonable, and a group of people were defeated by her alone but also lost in a mess; the third time, he deliberately set up a plan, thinking that she was an insignificant little character, but she followed the flow and took the game!
People in Apocalypse 6 think Qi Ningyuan is as smart as a demon. Qi Ningyuan has always believed that there is no opponent worthy of attention among the younger generation of Apocalypse 6. But now, he thinks he has met, and he is still a woman!
"Young Master..." The old man saw that Qi Ningyuan was originally as dark as ink, and suddenly laughed again. He felt strange and called Qi Ningyuan.
Qi Ningyuan finally walked out of his thoughts and glanced at the old man. The strange smile on the corner of his lips had not yet fallen: "Qi Zhong, I finally figured it out."
The old man named Qi Zhong was puzzled: "What does the young master mean?"
"You don't need to understand." Qi Ningyuan looked at the direction of Poyang City, narrowing his eyes slightly and said, "A woman like that can never be committed to Ouyang Jue. So, they may be in a cooperative relationship."
Qi Zhong frowned and realized that Qi Ningyuan was talking about "Ouyang Jue"'s wife Xiaohua, so he said, "Young Master, don't forget that when Jinfang City held the elders' martial arts competition before, Ouyang Jue and Xiaohua were once intimate in public, which is not fake."
Qi Ningyuan subconsciously ignored this matter. When he heard Qi Zhong's words, his face slightly sank and thought: "Intimate in public, if it weren't for a show, would she really follow that Ouyang Jue..."
A sense of loss that was indescribable suddenly enveloped Qi Ningyuan, making him frown, feeling a little uncomfortable, because he had just figured out what happened recently, and just realized that he had met a woman who was evenly matched with him. Qi Ningyuan had never considered marrying a wife, because he once thought that no woman in this world could compete with him, but now she had it, did she really marry someone? Or Ouyang Jue...
"I always think there is something wrong with her relationship with Ouyang Jue..." Qi Ningyuan seemed to be talking to himself.
"Young master, go back first." Qi Zhong said to Qi Ningyuan.
"No, I won't go back to Yingcheng!" Qi Ningyuan suddenly spoke.
"Young Master is not going to find that little flower girl, right?" Qi Zhong frowned, feeling that Qi Ningyuan was really weird, and seemed to be a little irrational.
Qi Ningyuan was silent for a moment and said, "No, I won't go to find her now, we will definitely meet again in the future. I will definitely not lose to her next time!"
"Where are you going?" Qi Zhong asked.
"Go to Wax City." Qi Ningyuan said coldly.
"What are you doing in Wax City?" Qi Zhong felt very sudden.
Qi Ningyuan looked at Qi Zhong coldly: "You are talking too much."
Qi Zhong looked at Qi Ningyuan with a solid gaze, lowered his eyes slightly and said, "Young Lord atones for his sins."
The boat turned around, heading towards the direction where Wax City was like an arrow from the string.
Next, Qi Ningyuan kept thinking about the boy who was "stuck by the sword" and the little flower who was weak willow and Fufeng, finally turned into a cold and arrogant woman wearing ink clothes and holding an umbrella as a weapon. That figure could not be removed in Qi Ningyuan's mind.
The anger of being splashed with dirty water and being pitted and smeared, after Qi Ningyuan figured out that the three of them might be one, it dissipated a lot, and replaced by curiosity and exploration. Qi Ningyuan really wanted to know what the real appearance of that woman was like? What is her real personality? How many faces did she have?
WAV City.
A few days ago, Xiao Yuesheng passed by Washi Wu City when he left and stopped for a short time. The main purpose was to replenish food. He told Lian Yu that his younger brother Xiao Xinghan had arrived and told Lian Yu that it might not take long for Mu Lin and Tuoba Yan to leave, and asked Lian Yu to prepare, and then send Mrs. Lian and Lian Jing to go with Mu Lin.
As for why Xiao Yuesheng didn't take Mrs. Lian and Lian Jing away, the reason was very good. First, his parents, wife and children were waiting for him, anxious to return home, and did not want to waste time; second, Lian Jing was the candidate for the good girl Xiao Yuesheng thought he could show off with Mu Lin, so of course he had to create some opportunity for Mu Lin. Mu Lin was a bachelor, so he was not afraid of delaying time.
As for the safety issue, it is not a big problem, because after passing Wax City, heading towards Baiyue City. With the destruction of the Wei family, no one has paid attention to the entire island of large and small size recently. There are still people who can handle Xianluo Island, so it is not difficult to leave.
So, Xiao Yuesheng took a lot of delicious food prepared for him with Lian Yu and walked on the road. After a few days, Lian Yu really waited for Mu Lin and Tuoba Yan.
Mrs. Lian didn't want to leave, but Lian Yu was very persistent. Lian Jing always wanted to go to Shenbing City and was looking forward to going with Mu Lin. Lian Wang was worried that Lian Jing would leave by herself, so she agreed. When Mu Lin arrived, they were all ready.
So I didn't waste any time. I changed to a larger ship, and Mu Lin took Tuoba Yan, Mrs. Lian and Lian Jing on the road together.
When Mu Lin left, he specifically reminded Lian Yu that the news of Mrs. Lian and Lian Jing's departure must be blocked. The fewer people know, the better. If someone with a heart knows, they may become suspicious. This person with a heart mainly refers to Qi Ningyuan.
So, after Mrs. Lian Yu left, he arranged for someone to pretend to be them and stay in the mansion.
The entire Worm City was calm during this period. In addition to handling the affairs of the city, Lian Yu was vigorously selecting masters, consolidating the city defense, and at the same time clearing out the meticulous works and rectifying the city. It turned out that those who were not convinced by Lian Yu as the city lord were now convinced. Although it was impossible to return to the heyday of the Lian family in the short term, the Lian family is now at its best time compared to those in recent years.
Early that morning, Lian Yu suddenly received news that a suspicious ship was approaching Wax City.
When Lian Yu and Lian Ce arrived at the city gate, they heard a report saying: "The City Lord is the ship of the Han family in Poyang City."
Lian Ce had already seen the Han family flag flying high above the ship, his face darkened, and he snorted coldly and said, "The Han family dares to come? Seeking death!"
Lian Ce broke Han Yaozu's leg because Han Yaozu bullied Lian Jing first. The Han family wanted Lian Jing to be a concubine for Han Yaozu, humiliating the Lian family, which completely annoyed Lian Ce.
Before that, the two families had a lot of contact, and Mrs. Lian was Han Chao's sister, so the Han family naturally had more knowledge of Wildwood City than other families. When the two families turned against each other, Lian Ce thought about not having sex anymore, but the Han family wanted to put the Lian family to death and did not even think of any love.
Lian Yu frowned and asked, "How many ships have come?"
My subordinates reported: "If you go back to the city lord, you will be a ship."
"A ship...what are you going to do..." Lian Yu looked inexplicably, "Dad, don't be impulsive, see what they are coming."
"I saw that bitch Han Chao!" Lian Ce narrowed his eyes slightly and said coldly, Han Chao was standing at the bow of the ship at this time.
"He came in person?" Lian Yu thought for a moment and said, "I am ready to fight against the enemy, but without my orders, no one is allowed to act rashly."
To be continued...