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Chapter 23 Back Down the Mountain

Tang Xiaoqi was shocked: "I'm afraid it's too late? No, I'll go carry Sister Meizi away now."

"That would delay even more!" Yi Xingchen quickly stopped her, "Sister Mei Zi was seriously injured. It is a little far from the city. We had been walking empty-handed for a long time before. It was too serious for a person to carry. Moreover, she had injuries on her body, and walking on her back would attract others' attention. In addition, next to her, the body of a man in black holding a steel knife was found. He was pierced by a sword. It was probably killed by her. Judging from the situation mentioned by the young monk, the accomplices of the man in black may still be looking for Sister Mei Zi. They must be careful and prepare a complete plan. Although Sister Mei Zi was seriously injured, she has not had any worries about her life. I have simply bandaged her for the time being. It should be fine."

Tang Xiaoqi felt that Yi Xingchen was right, so she nodded and followed Yi Xingchen to trot out of the temple. There were some rental carriages parked at the door, which were used to burn incense for the pilgrims and return to the city.

There are more than a dozen carriages for rent, scattered around the temple entrance. Because they want to transport the plum and cold fragrance, they cannot let others know, so they must find a mature and reliable handlebar type carriage that cannot be talked nonsense. But who has such a character for the handlebar type of these dozen carriages? It is unknown.

Yi Xingchen had a quick thought in his head and decided to calculate a hexagram to choose. - In the Eight Trigrams, Qian represents horse, and Qian belongs to metal. If you want to be lucky, it must be earth. Earth produces metal. In the Eight Trigrams, Kun and Gen belong to earth, which are northeast and southwest respectively.

However, Kun hexagram is three yin lines, which generally represent women, sinister people or yin people. Such people are indeed uneasy. Gen hexagram is good, Gen represents mountain, representing loyalty, honesty, so you should look for a carriage in the northwest.

He turned around and looked northwest, and indeed saw an old man looking at them with his sleeves, his face full of humility.

Yi Xingchen said: "Just hire his car."

Tang Xiaoqi didn't know that Yi Xingchen had already calculated a divination in his head just now, and chose the most suitable vehicle from the dozen cars based on the divination. She had no idea of ​​course following Yi Xingchen. The two of them came to the carriage in the northwest corner.

Yi Xingchen said: "How much does it cost to return to the city?"

"You can just give eighty pennies, but everyone else wants one hundred."

Yi Xingchen nodded and said, "I'll give you a hundred, because we have to pick up a friend. He is outing and drinking on the mountain with someone. You have to wait on the side of the road for a while. We have to go up the back mountain to call him."

The old man nodded quickly and said, "Yes, I'll wait for you, thank you, thank you."

After getting in the car, the car walked into the city. The way back to the city was to pass through the back mountain of the temple, which was below the tower forest.

When he arrived at the back mountain, Yi Xingchen asked the old man to wait by the side of the road, took out Mei Lengxiang's purse and gave all the agreed 100 documents to the old man. The old man was very happy and repeatedly agreed to wait for them.

Tang Xiaoqi followed Yi Xingchen up the mountain and said to Yi Xingchen: "You gave him all the money. If the carriage he drove away, where will we find it?"

Yi Xingchen said: "Don't worry, the person I like is absolutely right. He is an honest person and will not abscond with the money."

When Yi Xingchen calculated that hexagram just now, the three-dimensional hexagram in his mind was consistent with the hexagram he was thinking about, and there was no hexagram or flash of the lines, which proved that the hexagram he listed and the idea of ​​preparing to interpret the hexagram were correct. The ancestor recognized his hexagram results, so there was no inconsistency in the three-dimensional hexagram. Therefore, he firmly believed that his judgment was correct.

Moreover, he wants to use this hundred documents to test it. If he runs away with money by practicing the handlebar, it means that the handlebar is cunning and untrustworthy. He might talk about things everywhere and cause trouble for them. Asking him to abscond with money is equivalent to spending money to avoid disaster. If he is still waiting at the foot of the mountain, it means he is honest and reliable, and he will feel relieved.

Tang Xiaoqi walked very fast because she was worried about Mei Lengxiang, and Yi Xingchen could not keep up. Tang Xiaoqi had to hold his armpit with one hand and almost half lifted him up the mountain. Soon they came to the bottom of the tower forest, and under Yi Xingchen's leadership, they found Mei Lengxiang in the grass.

Seeing Mei Lengxiang fainting in the grass, Tang Xiaoqi was immediately panicked and hurried forward and kept calling. However, Mei Lengxiang had no reaction except for the occasional sound of two oops.

Yi Xingchen said: "Let's get her back quickly. She must have fallen into a coma because she was bleeding too much. If you can't wake her up, hurry up and ask your uncle to treat her."

Tang Xiaoqi agreed and was about to squat down and carry Mei Lengxiang on her back. Yi Xingchen quickly stopped her and said, "If you recite like this, you will attract others' attention. It seems that there are two wounds on her back, and her back is covered with blood, which has wet her clothes."

Tang Xiaoqi was shocked, turned over her body and saw that there was indeed a large area of ​​blood on her back. She was so scared that she was trembling: "What should I do?"

Yi Xingchen had already thought of a solution and said, "Hurry off her blood clothes. There is a dead man under the stone tower over there. I will take off his clothes and put them on Mei Lengxiang. The man was penetrated by a sword and fell downwards. The blood flowed to the lower part, so the blood did not stain the clothes. I took off his clothes and gave you, and you changed it to Sister Meizi and pretended to be a man. We said he was drunk and carried him back."

Tang Xiaoqi is young and can't help but listen to Yi Xingchen. And she also thinks what Yi Xingchen said makes sense.

Yi Xingchen quickly walked to the stone tower, stripped the clothes of the man's corpse and threw them away to Tang Xiaoqi. Then he picked up the steel knife in the man's hand and slashed at the man's face, cutting the whole face beyond recognition.

Then, he took a breath and began to dig a hole on the ground with a steel knife to prepare to bury the body.

It is certainly not easy to use a steel knife as a hoe. Just as he was panting, Tang Xiaoqi's voice came from behind him and said, "Let me do it!"

Yi Xingchen took a breath, jumped out of the shallow pit and handed the steel knife to Tang Xiaoqi. Tang Xiaoqi also understood that Yi Xingchen was about to bury the body, so she quickly digged the pit with the steel knife. She had martial arts skills and of course she was also good at strength, so she quickly digged a pit. It was almost one person deep, and then she turned her head.

Yi Xingchen knew that she didn't dare to look at the naked corpse, so he went over and dragged the corpse to the edge of the earthen kang, pushed it down, checked the steel knife, and found no characteristic objects such as carved handwriting or ribbons wrapped around it. It was just an ordinary knife, so he threw the steel knife inside and pushed the soil next to it in.

Tang Xiaoqi heard the sound of bulldozing, and probably pushed the body down and started burying it. Then she turned around and helped her push the soil into the pit with a red face. She quickly filled the pit. She found a few stones from the side and pressed it on it, and there was no sign of the appearance of touching the soil.

Yi Xingchen grabbed another handful of soil and applied the bloody handprints on the stone tower.

Looking around, he couldn't see anything strange, so he returned to the edge of the grass. Seeing that Tang Xiaoqi had already changed Mei Lengxiang to the man's clothes and placed it on the clean grass next to him. There were dark red blood stains on the grass where Mei Lengxiang had lying before, which was quite obvious. He quickly grabbed the soil and scattered it on it to cover the blood stains. He cut some weeds with Mei Lengxiang's sword and threw them on it to cover the marks.

Previously, Tang Xiaoqi had already taken off the scabbard of Mei Lengxiang wrapped around her waist. At this moment, she inserted Mei Lengxiang's sword into the scabbard, then bent it around her waist, and tied it with a belt to cover it. Only then did Yi Xingchen realize that Mei Lengxiang's sword was a soft sword made of Burmese iron that could be bent freely, and could be inserted into the soft scabbard and wrapped around her waist.

Tang Xiaoqi carried Mei Lengxiang and walked down the mountain. Yi Xingchen wrapped Mei Lengxiang's changed clothes into a ball, clamped them under his armpits, followed behind, and soon arrived at the foot of the mountain.

When he was almost at the side of the road, Yi Xingchen called Tang Xiaoqi and said, "I'll carry Sister Meizi."

Tang Xiaoqi turned around and stared at him panting, her eyes full of confusion and a hint of anger. She seemed to be watching a disciple.
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