Chapter 54: Ghost Face(1/2)
The season is getting closer and closer to late autumn. Changfeng can already feel the chill when he wakes up in the morning. This cold is nothing to people with profound internal skills. Changfeng saw that everyone on the island had already put on autumn clothes, and then he realized that he had been away from Piaolan Valley for half a year. He didn't know what was going on there. A thick layer of dust must have accumulated in the living place. Looking back on his worry-free time in the valley, he didn't even hear Qin Qiu shouting loudly not far away. Xiaotao, who was also going to give money, pushed him reluctantly, and then he came to his senses.
This time, the one who went out to sea was a small boat that could only accommodate three people. Qin Qiu was one, Changfeng himself was one, and the other was the sailor at the helm. In addition, there was only a place on the boat to turn around and accommodate the two people lying down. There was a vast sea outside. Changfeng asked Qin Qiu with some doubts: "Can this boat send us safely to Houyin Port?"
Qin Qiu smiled and said, "You can rest assured about this. The sea is very calm now, and there are no strong winds and waves. We do this to hide the whereabouts of Mr.
"Don't you have a close relationship with the Houyin Port? Why be so careful?" Changfeng had long known that their power had spread throughout the Houyin Port and was often in and out, so why be so careful!
"Sir, I don't know that we are doing sea business on the surface, so we have a good relationship with the naval master at Huyin Port. Recently, I don't know if the princess's incompetent brother received any news. The people who went out to sea and those who came back had to register and leave fingerprints to compare. If the sir was riding on our large cargo ship, there would be trouble. The small boat could easily sneak in quietly, and the navy's group would not be easy to detect."
If he disguised himself as one of their sailors, wouldn't he be able to walk into Houyin Port with a swagger? Changfeng thought to himself, but they didn't know his ability yet. Now they can't tell them that if they don't do it well, they will doubt whether his current appearance is his true face. If he treats himself as a spy, he will cause trouble. Therefore, Changfeng doesn't want to delve into this issue, and there is no need to delve into it, so he beat him up.
The boat was sailing through the waves, and a few hours later, Changfeng saw the hazy land in the distance. The Fuguo Island was so close to Houyin Port, and the Loulan Kingdom could not know the situation on the island. How could they be so safe here? Could it be that Lou Wuxin really has no ability to govern the country and is a foolish monarch?
"Sir, this is a rare mirage on the sea." Qin Qiu pointed to the land on the sea level ahead with a smile and the brilliant building roads on the sea level ahead. For those of them who live on the sea, this kind of scene is rare and strange, and they will not be as excited as those who have just gone out to sea.
It turned out to be a mirage. Changfeng was shocked and thought it would be here so soon. Changfeng was amused by what he thought just now, so he pretended to be calm and smiled: "It's indeed very spectacular. This is the first time Changfeng has seen such a strange scene on his body. It seems that we are coming out today and are just getting by with this good luck."
"Yes, I hope that Mr. will succeed in leaving here." Qin Qiu said happily.
"Xie Qin leader Ji Yan, this trip must be extremely dangerous. Whether you can come back is still unknown. Your princess' wishful thinking is really smart!" Changfeng sighed. If he hadn't been a person who would say the words, it would have been a good idea to secretly return to Dugu after getting ashore.
"Since the princess learned her true identity, she was determined to restore the country, so Qin Qiu could only follow her as a guard." It was obvious that Qin Qiu's desire to restore the country was not as hot as their princess.
"Don't the leader of Qin want the princess to successfully restore the country?" Changfeng asked in confusion.
"So what if you succeed? I don't know if you are the people who will sacrifice. These are still on our own heads!" Qin Qiu said sadly.
"It's not that Loulan and Lou Yue are under the rule of two foolish monarchs, and the people are living in poverty. Will there be more people who die if this continues? Have the leader of Qin ever thought about it?" Changfeng unknowingly agreed with Lou Wuyun's point of view and started talking for her.
"With that being said, who can settle the final account in the end?" Qin Qiu asked with his head raised.
Changfeng was also confused. He had never calculated this account. He didn't know where to calculate this account. He comforted him: "Maybe under the rule of the princess, life will get better and more stable in society."
"It may be that Qin Qiu is willing to spare no effort to support the princess in restoring the country." Qin Qiu explained for himself.
"How can the princess tell me to act?" Changfeng pulled the topic back to the topic this time.
"The princess has an intelligence organization called "Hawkeye". All the domestic intelligence sources are under the responsibility of Hawkeye. When the teacher arrives in China, he can contact them. This is the token of the Hawkeye organization's patrol envoy. With this token, the teacher can use them. As for how the teacher acts, it is his own business, and we will not ask about it." Qin Qiu pulled out a green token from his waist and handed it to Changfeng.
Changfeng looked carefully at the green token, with the avatar engraved on it, and the words Wuyun were on the back. Changfeng said: "Is this the princess' own token?"
"Yes, if it weren't for the princess' token, how could sir be able to mobilize Hawkeye at will?" Qin Qiu said with a smile.
"Then why did Changfeng be the inspector?" Changfeng asked in confusion.
"This matter is highly confidential. Since the teacher is unwilling to say it in public, there is naturally a reason why the teacher considers it. The fewer people know, the more successful the husband will be, and the safer his life will be." Qin Qiu mistakenly thought that Changfeng was unwilling to say it yesterday, which was the purpose.
"What should Changfeng do then? Don't you interfere?" Changfeng asked back.
"Of course, we have the right to know. I don't think it's too much!" Qin Qiu spread his hands and said.
"Yeah." Changfeng stammered and said, and suddenly handed over the command of their intelligence organization to himself. The purpose here must be not just for such an action, but also other conspiracies. In Fuguo Island for so many days, he could see that Lou Wuyun's work has always been one thing that is tied to another thing, one thing that is connected to another, and one thing that is connected to another.
The three people prepared three days of dry food and clear water for three days, and they calculated that they would go ashore in three days. Of course, Qin Qiu would not foolishly go to the big port to dock. He quietly took advantage of the night to bypass the lighthouse on the sea and turned to the pier of a small fishing village to get ashore. The entire fishing village was theirs, not afraid of being discovered or anyone would tell them.
After the two got ashore, they first stayed at the fishing village stronghold for one night. The next morning, Qin Qiu handed over the identity documents that had been forged to Changfeng. How to find the Hawkeye method to teach Changfeng. Qin Qiu and others had to wait until dark before going back to the sea. Changfeng didn't say much about taking the identity documents and Yang Chang left.
This small fishing village has only a dozen families, and its geographical location is very hidden. Going to sea to catch fish is just one of their means of making a living. Most people still make a living by farming and live a very hard life. No wonder Qin Qiu and others found this place as their contact point. Such an inconspicuous small fishing village can indeed hide many people and things.
Changfeng asked the villagers about the route to Loulan City, and put the thousand taels of silver in his arms on the road. This silver was naturally the silver note of the general money house of Loulan. It would be strange if there was no one robbed in Loulan today. He had important things and was not a person who came to Loulan to make a name for himself. He was so arrogant that he could reach Loulan City safely and securely.
Although Changfeng could use Hawkeye people to do things for him along the way, he didn't want to reveal his identity so early, so he paid for a horse in Houyin City and set off on the road alone. At this point, Changfeng was still alone in the Loulan martial arts world.
It was already early September, and the autumn wind was rustling. This was the season for Loulan Kingdom to harvest, but Changfengguan the entire Loulan was shrouded in a cloud of sorrow. Along the way, he saw groups of refugees heading south more than once. Changfeng was unfamiliar with people and land, so he didn't dare to ask more, but he also learned a lot from the refugees that it turned out that Loulan had a great sweat in the west of summer, and the government paid undue taxes. Not only did it not send food to provide disaster relief, it became even worse. The people had no way to survive and fled, hoping to find a way to survive in the east.
Changfeng had a lot of money in his arms, but what these refugees needed was not the money that could not be used as food, but real food. No matter how much money was, it would be useless. Changfeng still couldn't bear it. The money given to him along the way almost cost all his money. So he made up his mind that in such a situation, he could not give any more charity. Otherwise, if there was not much rescue, he would be hungry first, so how could he do what Lou Wuyun gave him?
Officials force the people to rebel, but the people must not refuse, let alone an ambitious woman who is behind the scenes!
Passing by a tea shed, the wind dismounted, asked the friend to take him over and feed the grass, sit down and drink a sip of tea to relieve his fatigue.
Suddenly, the dust was flying on the official road. A group of people of unknown origin suddenly stopped in front of the tea shed. One of the big men shouted loudly: "Waiter, bring some pots of good tea for the old man. It's time for the old man to drink it."
Changfeng was attracted by the loud shout and turned around to see who it was. He saw a big flag stuck in a carriage with the words: Qinglong Escort Agency, a big flag was flying in the autumn wind, and it was extremely majestic. Looking at the group of sweat next to the carriage, each with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, all with blue shirts and gray pants, there were only three people who seemed to be escorts and the like. Although they were the same style of clothes, they were much better in fabric than those who were wadeers. It seemed that their status was higher.
Changfeng just took a look. He had seen such things for several days. It was not to assassinate the Ghost Face True Lord. He had already tried to teach those who were committing evil on the way. He did not dare to act rashly, because as long as he moved, it would inevitably not be noticed by the people of the Netherworld Sect, expose his whereabouts, and make the Ghost Face True Lord alert. This is what Changfeng doesn't want to see. After entering the world for so long, after the political storm in Wuyue, he considered that the problem was not just in front of him. Sometimes, in order to achieve his goal, he should tolerate what he should tolerate.
"You, get out of here, I want to sit in this position." A vicious voice sounded.
Changfeng turned around and looked at the other people in the teahouse, and found that everyone was looking at him. Needless to say, this sentence was said to Changfeng. Changfeng thought to himself, if I don’t cause trouble for you, you will burn incense, and he dared to come to the door on his own initiative. It seemed that he couldn’t avoid it. He was about to speak, but suddenly, the man riding on the horse in the middle suddenly attacked, and the whip in his hand had reached less than three inches behind Changfeng’s head.
Changfeng suddenly felt a wind coming from behind his head. He lowered his head and avoided it gently, easily avoiding the whip. At the same time, he heard the man with a sharp mouth on the left side of the whip at the same time.
Changfeng wanted to stand up and move out of the way, but he didn't know that the other party would hurt people as soon as he made a move. The soil also had three parts of Buddha nature. He immediately sat down on his butt from the stool to see how he could do what he could do.
The sharp-mouthed man didn't know what he said to the man in the middle. Changfeng could have heard it easily, but he didn't want to give up all the attacks at this time, so he saved his worries and took a sip of tea leisurely: "I didn't expect that I could drink such good tea in this mountain shop."
The three of them dismounted at the same time and walked towards Changfeng's table. The other guests in the tea shed seemed to see that there would be troubles when they stayed in the tea shed. They paid the bill and left, leaving only Changfeng alone, and of course there was also the owner of the tea shed to drink two friends. This was a tool for others to make a living, and they could not leave it alone, but they were far away from Changfeng, and were afraid that they would join them.
The three of them slowly approached Changfeng and formed a surround. The person among them said, "This brother can avoid the next whip. He is really skillful. I don't know if he is willing to give him advice."
The most feared person who walks outside is to offend people. They have always been kind and make money. At this time, they also remembered some of the words they had said to them on the first day of the ward. "People who walk on the ward should treat anyone in the world with courtesy. Never rely on their martial arts skills. If they do not offend anyone easily, they will bring disaster to the whole family." However, they seemed to have forgotten this sentence just now. They easily avoided a whip when they saw Changfeng, and became alert to Changfeng. Their ward was not over.
The man with a sharp mouth saw Changfeng just drinking tea and not answering, and clasped his fists and said, "The person in the Houyin Branch of the Qinglong Escort Agency is called Hou Quan, who is the Fighting Monkey. I wonder which hero his brother is?"
"Brother Hou, why are you talking to him? Just send him away." Changfeng noticed the red-faced man on the right, with a hideous face, as if he wanted Changfeng to swallow it in one bite.
"Third brother, don't be rude, please listen to what your elder brother said." The man with a whip just now said to the man with a green face in Changfeng.
"What is the reason for the three of you to attack me without asking?" Changfeng asked slowly.
"It's because the second brother is reckless, and the second brother apologizes to the brothers." The sharp-mouthed man smiled. Changfeng knew that they would definitely not be like this in normal times. From the surprised look of the owner of the teahouse, Mr. He, you can see how these three people changed their nature today. It is so polite. In addition to Changfeng's skill, there is another thing that they must not lose this time. Otherwise, they would not be able to save their heads. So they were careful. Just now, they were just re-creating.
Changfeng knew that these three people must not be afraid of their martial arts, so they were so polite to him. There must be other articles here, and he still couldn't understand them thoroughly.
Changfeng didn't want to cause trouble, but since he had already apologized, he couldn't stand up. He smiled and said, "It's all a misunderstanding, please come and ask."
"Thank you, second brother, third brother, have a little tea and we'll go on the way." The sharp-mouthed man greeted his two brothers.
The three of them walked to another table and sat down. At this time, they were careful about what they said. They only heard the blushing man say indignantly: "Brother, why are you so polite to that person? If I had my temper, I would have beaten him up."
"Third brother, please keep a low voice. We will not be able to miss this escort. How did the head of the escort tell us before leaving? Have you forgotten?" the sharp-mouthed man scolded.
"Isn't it just the birthday gift from the Lord of Houyin City to the National Master? What's wrong with it? Isn't this kind of dart often there?" The blushing man said disapprovingly.
"Third brother, this is an ordinary escort. This is a gift to the National Master. Regardless of what happens to those people, the head of the general escort can settle it. If you lose the gift from the National Master, how many heads do you have?" The green-faced man also scolded the red-faced man and said.
"I heard that the martial arts master of the National Master was unfathomable. He ranked third in the top ten masters of the Fengyun twenty years ago. He must have been even more powerful in the past twenty years. Such a big man is not something that we little players can match. We should be more careful along the way and not be as arrogant as usual. Second brother, you can't take action recklessly. If the person we offended targets him and come to find our bad luck, it will be troublesome." The sharp-mouthed man explained carefully to the two brothers.
The man with a blue face blushed and said, "Brother taught me a lesson."
The man with red face became much more honest. He was indeed not worthy of carrying shoes for others with their martial arts. It was not easy to take their lives, so he kept silent.
It turned out that the Ghost Face True Lord was about to celebrate his birthday. Why didn’t he hear Qin Qiu mention it? I didn’t expect that this old thief was really powerful. When he celebrated his birthday, officials in Loulan were fighting to give gifts. No wonder Lou Wuyun and others wanted to get rid of this person first. This person was indeed a big obstacle. If this person was there, he would definitely be Lou Wuyun’s strong enemy.
Changfeng asked the guy to lead his horse over, whispered to find out the direction, and turned over and left. He could have followed the escort to the road together, so he could have led the way without taking more detours by himself, but he was afraid that his own world would lack experience and make people discover it, which would be a big trouble. Therefore, he gave up this idea and took more detours by taking more detours, and just think that he was traveling in Loulan.
Changfeng traveled day and night, hoping to have enough time to arrange the arrangement before he arrived in Loulan City. He had decided to assassinate the birthday of the Ghost Face True Lord. That night, guests must be gathered. As long as he got an identity and sneaked into the birthday crowd, he suddenly attacked. Changfeng believed that he was 70% sure to kill the Ghost Face True Lord.
By this time he had not called Hawkeye. In addition to this matter, he wanted to complete it independently, another thing was that he didn't want his every move to be under the surveillance of others. He didn't like this feeling, otherwise he would feel uncomfortable all over.
"Brother, how to get to Loulan City?" Changfeng was greedy and practiced light skills, so he fostered his horses in the inn and walked alone on the mountain road to Beijing. This saved a lot of trouble. He also learned more deeply about how the people of Loulan live. The more he went north, nine out of ten rooms were empty. Therefore, Changfeng often couldn't find someone to stay, so he had to rush around overnight and waited to rest before asking about the road. He had not found the market yet, so he no longer knew the road.
The man carrying the basket turned around and Changfeng saw that it was an old man. He looked younger than him last year. Changfeng opened his mouth wide and said in surprise: "So, how can I get to your capital here?"
The man glanced at him and said, "Are you not a native of Loulan?"
"Yes, how did you know, brother?" Changfeng asked in surprise. Before he could say anything, the other party could actually see that this young man had very sharp eyesight.
"Didn't the uncle just talk about us? Why did the Loulan people say that?" The young man looked at Changfeng, who was cautious in his eyes and smiled, revealing two rows of snow-white teeth. Changfeng was in awkward for a moment and said without paying attention. In fact, how can people in the mountains and fields not have such white teeth not suspicious?
Fortunately, Changfeng was lost for a moment, so the young man took the opportunity to hide his flaws and said, "Why did uncle go to the capital?"
"Oh, I'm going to the capital to purchase goods." Changfeng said the identity that Lou Wuyun arranged for him and the purpose of going to the capital.
"Oh, that uncle must have seen many markets." The young man asked admiringly.
"That's it!" Changfeng pretended to be proud and stroked his long beard.
"Why did the uncle get lost here?" the young man asked in confusion.
"So amazing, I almost fell into his words." Changfeng thought to himself, having such a scheming at a young age. Changfeng looked serious and observed the young herb collector and said, "Is the guy lying?"
"No, uncle, Tianxin just felt strange. No one who came to Loulan didn't know that this place was something that no one could enter." The herb collector said.
"Why is this?" Changfeng had only been to Loulan for a few days, but he didn't know so much. He only knew where he was closest to where he walked.
"This mountain is a radius of hundreds of miles and is within the scope of Tianyi Mountain. Except for the people from the Tian family, you cannot enter and exit here at will." The herb collector explained.
"So you are also from the Tian family." Changfeng pointed at the nose and said.
"Nonsense, my name is Tianxin, so I am naturally from the Tian family." Tianxin said proudly.
"I wonder what the consequences will be if I enter privately?" Changfeng asked carefully. Even if he had the ability to be in heaven at this time, he would not want to cause trouble.
That day, my heart rolled my eyes and said, "Actually, there is nothing. The Tian family is the largest medical school family in Loulan Kingdom. Practicing medicine and saving people is the duty of the Tian family. They will not hurt people casually. But if they were not from Loulan people, I don't know what kind of punishment the head of the family would have!"
"Then I can say that I am from Loulan." Changfeng said anxiously. He could not waste time here.
"How can you hide it from his eyes when the head of the family travels all over the world?" Tianxin said with contempt.
"I will..." Changfeng had not said that he would disguise and change his voice, and should be able to get away with it, but Tianxin asked Changfeng in turn, "Uncle, what business do you do?"
"I'm here to come to Loulan to buy medicinal materials and sell them in the Central Plains." Changfeng has already presented the fabricated information.
"So selling medicinal materials is somewhat related to our Tian family. Are they all saving people? But it still doesn't work..." Tianxin shook his head and said.
"Why can't it work?" Changfeng asked.
"Unless you promised me to take me to Loulan City, I promise you not to tell the head of the family about entering Tianyi Mountain." Tianxin threatened Changfeng Dao.
"But if you don't know the way, how can you take you there? If your head finds out that I took you to the capital, then wouldn't I be punished even more? How can I agree to your request?" Changfeng shook his head quickly and said.
"It's okay if the uncle doesn't agree. Uncle, look at this." Tianxin took out something similar to a flute, but it was much shorter than the flute.
"What is this?" Changfeng asked.
"As long as I blow this thing, you will find it difficult to fly even if you have wings. The uncle probably doesn't know that the Tian family is also one of the four major families in the martial arts world, so it is not that easy to leave." Tianxin looked at Changfeng with a smile.
To be continued...