Book 20 - Chapter 12 – Lucky Chance (1/2)
Book 20 Chapter 12 – Lucky Chance
Dusk
Xu Ziling, disguised as Yue Shan, and shi+ Qingxuan, traveled as father and son, arrived in Hefei, another big city northwest of Liyang Yangtze River was still two days away, that is, assu the tould travel as fast as their feet could carry thehuai Aryou’s banner, and not Du Fuwei’s
Outside Hefei, the countryside was unbroken fields stretching into the distant; seedlings were everywhere, fresh yellow and light and dark green as far as the eyes could see,the tax to enter the city, the fascinating scenery of the patchwork of ays of the Yangtze River basin warhted their eyes
The streets were paved with either bluestone or built by laying bricks, giving the is were coant, ashed wall and black roof tiles, wooden doors and stone steps, si fancy In this continuous fire of war, the ti at it would feel peace and harh a narrow but long alley, both sides densely packed with the rear walls of people’s houses, shi+ Qingxuan, who along the way has never uttered even half a word, suddenly laughed and said, “I was thinking of leaving the city iht supper, so that tomorroe’ll be able to reach the Great River, but so the city, I suddenly feel tired and lazy, and now I only want to rest Before nightfall I want to go out to enjoy the hustle and bustle of the city Xu Xiong, what do you think?”
Xu Ziling sht or half evening will not ht sleep Therefore, I have no objection”
Thereupon the two found a clean, siant inn in the vicinity, ordered two adjacent rooms, and separately went to the bathrooether went to the city center to enjoy the liveliness Sitting down at the corner of a restaurant, shi+ Qingxuan ordered two vegetarian dishes, and then the topic of their conversation went back to Xie Ji Zong
shi+ Qingxuan did not wish for the guests at the adjacent table to listen to their conversation, hence she sat by Xu Ziling’s side, with her back against other people, and affectionately leaned close to Xu Ziling’s ear, and said, “The problem is that so far, no one has ever reaped any benefit fro frozhu is approaching his end, he would trans Yutian, as not able to fulfill this obligation due to the unexpected death, there are altogether eleven Zongzhu who sacrifice their primal essence into this Relic”
A chill crept up in Xu Ziling’s heart, thinking that the conduct of dee and unfatho Xiang Yutian’s ti Yutian was the first person to understand how to use the Relic to train the de the derand masters It’s a pity that he never co Mo Da Fa’ Just before his death, he separately taught the secret on how to use the Relic to train the demonic skill to four inferior disciples, who harbored the intention to murder their master, and to Yin Gui Pai’s Zhu Yuyan In addition, he instructed Lu Dashi+ to hide the ‘Demonic Emperor Relic’ in some secret place The best part was that he deliberatelythis ht that the ‘Demonic Emperor Relic’ has been handed over to Zhu Yuyan, while Zhu Yuyan is convinced that it has fallen into the four people’s hands The consequences can be easily iined”
Naturally they battled each other as irreconcilable adversaries [orig you die, I live], which ended up You Niaojuan and the others suffered a crushi+ng defeat, and no longer dared to show their face This ruse was certainly evil and extre Yutian’s character underwent huge changes, he did not have the heart of Bodhisattva at all, while i punishment to his evil disciples at the saxuan continued, “In the end, paper can never contain fire By the time both sides realized that the ‘Demonic Emperor Relic’ was in Lu Dashi+’s hands, both parties have already tied deep en was puzzled, “How did this xuan sighed; she replied, “Can I hold on to the cli by te smiled and said, “Since Miss has a hidden trouble that is hard toour separate way tomorrow; is there any other instruction Miss would like to tell xuan shook her head and said, “We are not going to part to was stunned
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Kou Zhong slept until late afternoon; alone, he went to the busiest street in Xiapi, to look around with great interest
In order to fool people, he did not carry the Moon in the Well, which noruished and accoelse
Along the street, he saw group after group ofmen, but they did not create any trouble at all
In this time of war, common people were the source of manpower Du Ren must have restrained his men to follow a strict code of conduct; otherwise, if the people ran away, the city would become ruins
The lanterns were started to illuainst each other for the right of way Except for its scale, which was comparably smaller, the liveliness was not inferior to the Heavenly Street in Luoyang
After sleeping for th, as well as his spirit and y, and really wished he could find some bad people to beat up Inwardly he also wished for Xu Ziling to be here, so that they could chat and joke, and spoke so would be evenfor two blocks, he stopped in front of a pleasure house, which signage said ‘Xiao Chun Guang’ [lit little scenes of springtih the pedestrian entrance leading into the courtyard
Seeing the arrival of a fat sheep, the bouncer at the gate busily took him to the reception lobby, and called the laobao [fe showed off that he brought enoughcustomer froenerous tip, before casually irl by name, Miss Qiu Yue [lit autumn moon]
The laobao, who insisted to be called Auntie Qing, showed off an aard expression while saying, “Daye [big ht Qiu Yue is already booked by another Daye How about I have Qiu Rong [lit autumn lotus] to accompany Daye? In terms of voice, beauty and artistry, she can’t be inferior to Qiu Yue”
Kou Zhong tossed half an ingot of gold to her, telling Auntie Qing to have Qiu Rong come and accompany him, but no matter what, he still wanted Qiu Yue to co the other half of the gold ingot on the table [This paragraph has a lot of ibberish, so I ‘interpreted’ it as best as I can froht honored guest was rarely seen in the world, hence Auntie Qing’s greedy eyes lit up immediately, but she was still hesitant and could notleaned over and whispered in her ear, “I have an idea; how about this! You arrange for uest As long as I hear her singing voice over the wall, you can consider ot is yours!”
Auntie Qing mused that unexpectedly there was such an idiot in the world illingly spend ladly took him upstairs
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A sxuan’s dark ‘jade countenance’, like a sliver of sun bursting out of the black clouds; she spoke gently, “Don’t be overly sensitive I only change o back to shi+chuan via land route”
Xu Ziling nodded and said, “Very well! We’ll part after dinner It would be perfect if I can reach Baling sooner”
After staring at hixuan spoke softly, “Your build certainly bears striking reseressiveness and overbearing saber Do you want to appear a bitreplied indifferently, “It doesn’t ht, there is no way I can cover my traces; therefore, there is no need to doher lips, shi+ Qingxuan laughed and said, “I said to appear a bit more like him, naturally that includes his saber technique and his overbearing saber Do you forget that when he died I was at his bedside?”
Thinking about it, Xu Ziling felt more headache, “No ine that you and Yue Shan could hang out together”
Froxuan’s profile from the side, as clear and distinct as if it was carved by a knife, the lines were as beautiful as if it ca to see, especially since the inal appearance covered up her icy flesh and bone, so that Xu Ziling was able to focus his attention on her refined lines
shi+ Qingxuan’s beautiful eyes showed a far-away, recalling-fond-o, Old Yue suffered a crushi+ng defeat under the hands of Heavenly Saber Song Que Heavily injured, he traveled a thousand li to see , he could see Niang for one last tiarded the wear and tear of her own true power, and saved his life using her acupuncture skill to stimulate his acupoints, so that he was able to live thirty more years, but he was unable to save his lance at Xu Ziling, she spoke indifferently, “Why are you staring at aze and said in e to you, I was enthralled, and involuntarily staring at you If you don’t like it, I won’t look at you”
shi+ Qingxuan showed a cute, naïve expression like a little girl, pursed her lips and said with a laugh, “I was teasing you You are different frouise is, you are always able to find soxuan’s skin is dark and rough, what do you say?”
Xu Ziling nearly grabbed his head and cried out for the pain; distressed, he said, “You seeht aded”
shi+ Qingxuan s as an exah to understand, I have never seen Niang se the subject, where e?”
Xu Ziling thought that it was you who changed the subject, yet you leader, the ue with her over this; he replied, “You were telling ed to keep his life, but not his xuan slapped her pretty forehead, and exclaiht! The details are not important, but as far as I understand, afterwards Old Yue built his house outside the secluded forest of the small valley where we lived Fro the stories of Jianghu, hence I was very clear about his affairs In his spare time, he wrote his saber technique, which he called ‘seventy two seasons’ [orig ‘hou’ – a period of five days] into a book If I pass on this book to you, you could even pretend that you know his ’s heart was moved; he asked, “Do you know that Yue Shan and Zhu Yuyan have a daughter together?”
shi+ Qingxuan replied, “That was the biggest regret Old Yue had in all his life At first he thought that Zhu Yuyan was viewing hi was reciprocated; ould have thought that Zhu Yuyan … ay! I don’t want to talk about it”
“Is this your habit?” Xu Ziling protested, “You always stir up other people’s curiosity, but then you don’t want to continue”
shi+ Qingxuan s to speak honestly What I hate the most about you is your repulsive attitude of don’t-care-about-everything, nothing-is-urgent I’ll let you off this time!”
After a short pause, she continued, “Often time Demonic Cult people’s conduct violates social relationshi+ps and heaven’s law For instance: bearing and raising children, which are proper human relationshi+ps and follow heavenly law, they would see it as impediment The reason Zhu Yuyan chose Yue Shan to be husband and wife for one night was sih they had man-wo in love with him, and would have difficulty extricate herself from it Tell me, don’t you think that was a perversion of heaven’s law?”
Listening to that, Xu Ziling was stupefied, and was unable to answer
shi+ Qingxuan was silent for a moment, and then she spoke softly, “You kill You Niaojuan and Zhou Laotan for me, and I’ll invite you to my little valley, and will play a tune for you wholeheartedly, with my true appearance Don’t you think this condition is satisfactory?”
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Indeed Qiu Rong, who ca, did not look bad at all; she was gloith youthfulness, not in the least looked like a broken floithered[fig fallen woer and waist of a bear [fig tough and sturdy build], her s; she clung to hi she could to curry his favor