Chapter 21: Descending the Mountain
Not long after Tang Yi left, a female disciple named Tian Xiang came quickly, walked up to Tang Susu and whispered a few words, Tang Susu raised her eyebrows, let out a sneer, and explained a few words in a low voice. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Later, another person came to meet outside the door, it was none other than Song Yanqing.
Song Yanqing, who was allowed to enter, saw Tang Susu hand over a letter to Tian Xiang beside him, and explained: "Let Niu Youdao go down the mountain and hand it over to the Nanshan Temple of Xiaonan Mountain in Guangyi County to preside, and let him deliver it by the way!"
"Yes!" Tian Xiang answered the letter with both hands, and quietly glanced at Song Yanqing as he turned to leave.
Song Yanqing stared at the letter in her hand and paid attention to it, turned around and saluted Tang Susu respectfully: "Disciple to meet the elder!"
Tang Sule raised his hand and signaled that there was no need to be polite.
However, Song Yanqing's face was expressionless, and he said calmly: "Elder, I heard that Niu Youdao is going down the mountain to the Shang Dynasty Sect Master Suihu?"
Tang Susu bowed slightly, "That's the case." ”
Song Yanqing's face tensed slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "Elder, you just promised that the Shangqing Sect would not give the Shang Dynasty Sect a follower to the Master before. "He returned to Shangqing Sect first with Shang Shuqing, and he had already greeted Shangqing Sect in advance, and now Shangqing Sect is going to send someone to Shang Chaozong, and he can't deal with his family about this matter when he turns around.
Tang Susu sighed: "It's really an accident, the lord of Shang County took out the token of retribution that Shangqing Sect gave to King Ning back then, and personally went up the mountain to find the door, so how can Shangqing Sect shirk it? Shangqing Sect is a famous and decent family, and you owe the kindness of others, and people want you to pay it back now, if you don't pay it back, what face will Shangqing Sect have in the cultivation world in the future? Will be poked in the backbone and laughed, Yanqing, this is not a trivial matter, it is really helpless. ”
Song Yanqing said: "If you don't repay the favor, the disciple is not clear about the past, and it is inconvenient to make judgments, the disciple only knows that the words of the capital have been brought to the Shangqing Sect, and now the actions of the Shangqing Sect are beyond the expectations of the capital, the disciple wants to ask the elders, how should the disciple explain to the capital?" The tone was slightly deep and a little aggressive.
Tang Susu said hehehe: "I'm too worried, don't you know how many catties and taels Niu Youdao has? "Actually, I really didn't think about sending someone to Shang Chaozong at the beginning, but people came to the door and took out a token, which is related to the reputation of a sect, so it is not good to refuse directly, so I have to deal with it. Let Shang Shuqing go to see Niu Youdao, but also to let Shang Shuqing know that it is difficult to retreat, after all, Niu Youdao's age is there, who knows that Shang Shuqing doesn't know which tendon is wrong, but he actually agreed, but it is a little difficult for Shangqing Sect to ride a tiger.
Song Yanqing said indifferently: "The disciple has not been in the Shangqing Sect for all these years, the disciple doesn't know what the situation is in Niu Youdao, the disciple only knows what the capital side means, you can't send people to the Shang Dynasty Sect, not a single one!"
"You!" Tang Susu pointed at him, shook his head slightly, and said, "I'm thinking about you, can't you see it?"
"Uh..."Song Yanqing was stunned for a moment, "For the sake of the disciple? The disciple can't see where he is thinking about the disciple!"
Tang Susu nodded casually, "There is one thing you may not know, the head Tang Yi doesn't look down on Niu Youdao at all, he hasn't even met a few times for so many years, and he hasn't had a round house with Niu yet, and the head of the family is still an innocent virgin." As I told you in the early years, the head of the house is just to take on heavy responsibilities, not really want to give Niu Youdao, how can the head of the village look at a mountain village man, you and Niu Youdao compared, the head of the head of the house can't tell which one is better? But the head is the daughter of the previous head of the house, she must bear some responsibilities, as a man, you must understand her as a woman's suffering. ”
"......" Song Yanqing was completely stunned, looking like she wanted to speak and stopped, her eyes gradually lit up, and her heart became active again, what does it mean Tang Susu has already hinted very clearly.
Tang Susu paid attention to his reaction for a moment, and then continued: "Everyone knows what the situation of the Shang Dynasty Sect is, and it is doomed to be in danger and will not end well, not to mention that Niu Youdao has no ability to protect himself at all, what is the difference between following the Shang Dynasty Sect and looking for death? There are some things that the Shangqing Sect is not easy to do clearly, you should understand the reason, it is not appropriate for someone to have an accident in the Shangqing Sect, if it is affected by the Shang Dynasty Sect, it is another matter. You also know the relationship between King Ning and Dongguo Haoran, the Shang Dynasty Sect designated to find Dongguo Haoran's disciples to go out of the mountain, and the other disciples of the Shangqing Sect can also understand and will not be suspicious. ”
Song Yanqing's eyes flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking, but in short, his tense face eased.
There was silence in the hall for a while, and Tang Susu, who was observing his words, suddenly smiled again: "Of course, there are accidents in everything, maybe the Shang Dynasty Sect can survive the many crises and ensure the safety of Niu Youdao by the way, that can only be said to be his creation, and the relationship between the head and his husband and wife must continue to be maintained." Yan Qing, the Shangqing Sect has the hardships of the Shangqing Sect, Niu Youdao is not a mage, you have to help the sect explain the situation to the capital!"
Song Yanqing squeezed out a smile on his face, nodded again and again, and said: "The disciple is also a disciple of the Shangqing Sect, so naturally he is helping the master to speak, the elder can rest assured, the disciple knows how to explain to the capital." ”
Tang Susu bowed: "That's good, that's good, I really didn't see the wrong person." ”
"If the elder has no other instructions, the disciple will retire first!" Song Yanqing said with his hand.
Tang Sule waved his sleeves and said, "Go, go, go." ”
Song Yanqing respectfully took a few steps back, then turned around and left quickly.
As soon as he left here, he immediately went back and found Xu Yitian and Chen Guishuo, two followers, one asked him to prepare horses, and the other asked him to go to the sect to take leave, the reason was to go back to the capital.
Everything was ready, and the three of them quickly left the Shangqing Sect.
Along the way, Song Yanqing was quite excited in his heart, excited by Tang Susu's words, Tang Yi and Niu Youdao turned out to be a nominal relationship, it was really surprising, it seems that this flower still has to wait for him to pick, he made up his mind to get Tang Yi this time, Tang Susu should know the consequences of fooling him repeatedly, dare not cooperate to try it!
"Senior brother, go in the opposite direction, it's not going to the capital over there!"
The three horses ran out of the range of Shangqing Sect, and just waded across the river to the opposite bank, Song Yanqing, who was leading the horse, ran in the opposite direction, and Chen Guishuo, who had caught up, hurriedly shouted a reminder.
"Nonsense! I'm not blind, just follow me!" Song Yanqing turned around and scolded.
Xu Yitian and Chen Guishuo looked at each other, not knowing what he was going to do, so they had to speed up to keep up......
Tang Susu, who was cross-legged and closed on the futon, was silent, the lights in the hall were not too bright, and the light was half-immersed in the dimness.
Tian Xiang quickly broke in from outside the hall, knelt down in front of Tang Susu and whispered, "Elder, people are not going in the direction of the capital!"
"Fools think it's beautiful!" Tang Susu opened his eyes and sneered......
The next day, just after dawn, a disciple of the Shangqing Sect came to the 'Peach Blossom Spring', asked Niu Youdao to come down the mountain, and asked if there was anything to help clean up.
It could be seen that this disciple's eyes were obviously curious about the head husband, but when Niu Youdao asked him something, he was careful not to say anything.
Niu Youdao didn't have anything to pack up, so he brought two sets of changes of clothes and other things to pack, and carried them on his back together with the sword sent by Shang Shuqing, and went down the mountain like this.
I walked all the way to the bottom of the mountain along the zigzag steps of the steep place in the middle of the cliff, and crossed a stone bridge, only to see Shang Shuqing waiting there.
Shang Shuqing was also followed by four big men, two of them were dressed in cyan power suits, and the other two were dressed in earth gray power suits, wearing leather wrist guards on their wrists, and waist guards and leather goods tied around their waists, all exuding a fierce and fierce atmosphere, and the horses beside him were hung with bows, crossbows, swords and other weapons.
"Mage!" Shang Shuqing bowed.
Niu Youdao nodded and smiled, Tian Xiang brought a jujube red horse with a fur and a divine horse, and pointed to the package hanging on the horse after seeing the salute and said, "Uncle Shi, here is the gold and silver prepared for you by the sect, as well as some dry food for the road." Then he took out a sealed letter from his sleeve and handed it over, "This is a letter that the head of the house asked you to bring to the host of Nanshan Temple in Xiaonanshan, Guangyi County on the way, you will pass by that place on the way, ask for the detailed location, and the head will let you remember to send it." ”
Niu Youdao took it and looked through it, but he didn't see the signature on the envelope, so he stuffed it into the package hanging on the horse, looked up at the direction of the Shangqing Palace, and asked, "Don't I need to resign?"
Tian Xiang said with a smile: "The head said that there was no need, and said that the county lord still had to hurry." ”
"Oh, let's go. Niu Youdao laughed slightly self-deprecatingly at the corner of his mouth.
After so many years, he has never had any choice here, and this time it is the same, it is all nonsense to talk too much, take the reins, and turn over neatly on the horse.
The county lord and his entourage also quickly got on their horses and took the lead in turning around and galloping away, and Niu Youdao followed behind.
A group of horses galloped wildly, trampling away.
Under a pine tree on the edge of the cliff of Shangqing Palace, Tang Yi, who was dressed like a fairy, frowned and looked at the scene of riding, and became more and more suspicious of Niu Youdao's origins.
In the sudden sound of horses' hooves, Niu Youdao looked back at the 'Peach Blossom Spring', only to see that the peach blossoms were still brilliant, and he didn't know if he would have a chance to come back......
The geographical scope of Shangqing Sect is not small, the fast horse galloped for a moment between the mountain and forest roads, and when he was about to go out of the boundary, several horses in front of him suddenly stopped urgently on the forest ** road, forcing Niu Youdao behind to stop quickly, and looked out, only to see the one-eyed and lame Tuhan stopped on the road ahead.
"County Lord, I have something to talk to him alone. Tuhan pointed to Niu Youdao behind him, and his voice was rough.
Shang Shuqing looked back and saw that Niu Youdao had no opinions, so he waved his hand and left first with the four entourage.
Niu Youdao jumped off the horse and said with a smile: "What do you need to talk about in this robbery?"