Chapter 397 Shaobaitou
Updated: 2012-11-22
Three swords and four guns to break the sky!
The eight masters of the imperial court ranked first.
With a white-clothed arch and an arrow, Chu Huan's first thought of such a person is naturally Xuanyuan Shao, who is famous all over the world. Xuanyuan Shao, the brave man who started fighting on the battlefield in his teens and climbed to the top of Luo'an Jingcheng.
Xuanyuan Shao became famous at a young age, and everyone knows that his archery skills are superb, but there are very few people who really see him.
Logically speaking, such a person should be extremely powerful and will not be noticed at all times.
But this is not the case.
After the founding of the country, Xuanyuan Shao was not sent to war again, but always shouldered the heavy responsibility of guarding the palace. This responsibility is of course very important, but sometimes it is always ignored. Moreover, although Xuanyuan Shao is the bravest of the three armies, his temperament is very low-key. In many years in the capital, he rarely interacts with officials in the capital, and is unique, rarely appearing in the eyes of everyone, becoming more and more silent.
The white-haired man carried his hands on his back and walked a few steps towards him. He gradually approached, but Chu Huan finally saw clearly that the white-haired man, who was suspected to be Xuanyuan Shao, was about thirty-five or six years old. He was in his prime, with a sharp edge and angular face. His tough face made him look full of masculinity. There was no beard on his lips, but there was a cluster of white beards under his lips, and his hair was like snow on his head. A gust of wind passed, and the white silk fluttered, and there was a bit of elegance in his masculinity.
Chu Huan already knew at this time that this white-haired man was so young but full of white hair, which was very likely to be what people often say was less white.
"Good martial arts!" The white-haired man swept the corpses that were slashed by Chu Huan and said with a calm expression: "If you come a few steps later, it will be difficult to see your wise kung fu!"
Chu Huan said, "If I hadn't met these assassins, it would have been difficult for me to see General Xuanyuan's peerless archery technique tonight."
The white-haired man smiled and said, "So you know who I am."
"Even if you don't know the general, the general's archery technique is no longer the second person. If the general's arrow comes out, I'm afraid no one will know General Xuanyuan's identity."
The white-haired man smiled and said, "I am Xuanyuan Shao. Do you know that if your martial arts are worse, you may become my scapegoat."
Chu Huan said: "So these assassins are coming to assassinate General Xuanyuan?"
"Yes." The white-haired man nodded and said, "There are many people who want me to die."
Chu Huan sighed: "Some people want General Xuanyuan to die, but the general has enough capital to be safe. On the contrary, if the person who wants me to die is really working, I may be in a corpse."
"Which yamen are you from?" Xuanyuan Shao looked up and down at Chu Huan.
Chu Huan bowed and said, "The lower official is the head of the Ministry of Revenue, Chu Huan!"
"Chu Huan?" Xuanyuan Shao thought for a moment, and suddenly laughed: "Yangwei Iron Blood Garden, Chu Huan who beat Dou Yi?"
Chu Huan said awkwardly: "The Xiaguan is actually very strange. Does the entire capital know that the Xiaguan beat Dou Yi?"
Xuanyuan Shao laughed and said, "It may not be a bad thing to be famous." He returned to his head and ordered his groom, "Go and invite the people from the Ministry of Justice to come over and clean up the place. Tell them that there is no need to make a big deal, just for the evil people in the future, and there is no need to make a lot of trouble in the city."
The coachman said yes.
Chu Huanqi said, "General knows the origin of these people?"
"I don't want to know where it comes from, but I know a little about why it comes from." Xuanyuan Shao said lightly.
Chu Huan nodded slightly, but was not easy to ask.
Xuanyuan Shao smiled and said, "You almost became a scapegoat because of this. Don't you want to know why these people came?"
Chu Huan said: "It's a secret matter, so the lower official dare not ask. And even if the lower official knows, it may not be of any use."
"You know if it works, you don't have to let you know." Xuanyuan Shao said calmly: "If it were me, I would almost die because of this. No matter what the result is, I still hope to know some reasons."
Chu Huan smiled and didn't speak.
Xuanyuan Shao suddenly stretched out his hand, opened his palm, and actually held something on his palm. Chu Huan was immediately surprised when he saw that thing, but he tried his best to keep calm.
In Xuanyuan Shao's palm, it was a stone.
This is an extremely smooth stone, smaller than an egg, and has an oval shape. The color of the stone is pure white, even whiter than Xuanyuan Shao's white hair, which is extremely conspicuous.
Under the moonlight, you can vaguely see the surface of this stone covered with tiny black lines, crisscrossing, just like the meridians of the human body.
This is not the first time Chu Huan has seen such a stone.
This stone is almost exactly the same as the one he collected in the suburbs of Liujia Village. It has no difference in shape and size, and even the patterns on the surface of the stone are so similar. If it weren't for the pure white color of this stone, Chu Huan even thought that the stone in Xuanyuan Shao's hand was the one he collected.
The stone he got from Lin Daier was in a fiery red color, which looked like it was covered with blood and seemed to have been burned by fire. However, the stone in Xuanyuan Shao's hand was completely different in color, as white as snow.
But Chu Huan was very sure in his heart. If nothing unexpected happened, two strange rocks, one red and one white, would have had some connection.
"Is this?" Chu Huan frowned, "General Xuanyuan, is this a stone?"
"It is a stone, it is a stone, because whether it looks or touches, it is just a stone, nothing more than a stone with better material." Xuanyuan Shao said slowly: "It is not a stone, or it may not be a stone, because since I got this stone, several groups of assassins have come to assassinate this general. Their purpose is to make this stone. It is difficult for me to believe that if it was just an ordinary stone, so many assassins would come to seize it regardless of their lives."
Chu Huanqi said: "General Xuanyuan, what do you mean is that this wave of assassins ambushed here tonight, intending to assassinate, and the purpose is just to get a stone?"
Xuanyuan Shao nodded slightly, handed over the white stone, and said, "Touch and look, can you tell if you can see that there is something strange about this stone?"
Chu Huan hesitated for a moment, and saw that Xuanyuan Shao had already sent the white stone to him, bowed his hand, took it carefully, and held it in the palm of his hand. The extremely smooth feeling was very familiar.
Unless the best jade or ordinary stones, even if they are smooth, they will have stone edges. Even if a master with excellent skills polishes, it will leave clues on the stones.
But this stone is obviously not a jade. If we really want to compare it, I am afraid that the best jade will not be smoother than this stone. This stone seems to be naturally like this, without any trace of carving and polishing, as if it has existed in this form since ancient times.
Chu Huan remembered clearly that the red stone he got would feel very warm when held in the palm of his hand. After holding it for a long time, it would even become hot. However, the feeling of this stone was completely opposite. When he first bought it, he felt a cool feeling, and the cold feeling became more and more obvious.
Chu Huan seemed to be observing carefully, but he was puzzled and full of questions.
Although Chu Huan could not see through the mystery of the red stone at the beginning, he understood that the stone was definitely not simple, and he might have hidden some secrets. Today, he suddenly saw the second strange stone in Xuanyuan Shao's hand. He couldn't figure out what was in it for a moment.
Chu Huan still remembered that when he went to Jingci Temple with Linlang to worship Buddha, he found that there was a Heavenly King Hall in the temple. The shape of the red stone seemed to be somewhat similar to the Dharma eye on the Heavenly King's Dharma crown.
He didn't know how to explain this.
"Master Chu can tell what's strange?" Xuanyuan Shao stood with his hands on his back, staring at Chu Huan with a look of expectation on his face. He seemed to hope that Chu Huan could also see the strangeness of the stone.
Chu Huan looked carefully and finally presented it to him with both hands, saying in surprise: "General Xuanyuan, this stone seems to be a treasure!"
"Oh?" Xuanyuan Shao's eyes lit up and he asked, "How can he see?"
Chu Huan said: "When Xiaguan held it in his hand, he felt that this stone was extremely cool. Xiaguan thought to himself, if it was hot summer and if this stone was in his heart, would his body be much cooler? If that was the case, this stone would be really a treasure to cool down."
Xuanyuan Shao sighed, a little disappointed, stared at Chu Huan and asked, "Is this the only way to discover it?"
Chu Huan showed a look of shame, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Xiao Guan Yu is dull, and he also thinks this kind of stone is rare, but he really can't see what other functions can it have besides cooling off? Well, maybe it's used for viewing, after all, rare things are precious, and rare things always have their value."
Xuanyuan Shao put away the white strange stone and shook his head and said, "Actually, when I first got this stone, I thought it was just an ordinary thing, but some people of unknown origins assassinated me several times. In the previous episode, I learned from an assassin that they wanted to get this strange stone. Then I felt that this stone might be very unusual. They went on one after another and had lost more than ten lives. Could it be for such a strange stone that could only cool down?"
Chu Huan frowned and said, "This really doesn't make sense." He asked again, "General Xuanyuan, the official dared to ask, why didn't the general hold those people and then torture them to confess, at least he should know their origin."
Xuanyuan Shao shook his head, looking a little tired: "These people are just doing things on orders. They just took the money and did things for others. Even who hired them is not clear. Several interrogations and no clues." He carried his hands on his back, looked up at the bright moon in the sky, and said with a confused look: "That man is so cautious in doing things, he is not an ordinary person. I would like to know who is trying to seize this strange rock from me, and what is their purpose of seizing this strange rock."
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