Chapter 12: The Stake

On the road a hundred miles away from Kyoto, a carriage was galloping, and before the dust could hit the ground, the cart was several miles away, and the two horses could no longer breathe, but the coachman still drove the reins vigorously.

The coachman was a monk, with a anxious face, and he couldn't sweat all night after driving, but his eyes were as wide as copper bells.

"Breaking the wind, what's wrong with Luofeng!" The whip in Jiekong's hand was whipped on two horses again, and the horses had been whipped until they were bloody.

There was a dead silence in the car.

"Gangzhiguan, sooner or later, one day I will ask you for blood!" the monk raised another whip, and his anxious heart rose and fell with the sound of horses' hooves.

"With your cold, it will last for two days at most. Cao Yangming looked at the extremely weak Nalan Zhifeng with a ashamed face, "It's a pity that I didn't cultivate, otherwise I can support you for a few more days if I help you force out the residual poison." ”

"No problem. Nalan Zhifeng leaned weakly against the wall of the car, his lips were white, and the cold in his body was almost drained, "Thank you for bringing the monk here this time." ”

Cao Yang will be considered a holy hand tomorrow, so Nalan Zhifeng doesn't need to ask him why he knows that he is in trouble, he doesn't have the extra strength to speak now: Bai Luofeng's internal organs are damaged, and his body has been cracked many times, if it weren't for the cold qi to solidify his internal qi and turn him into a near-death state, his current injury would not be able to withstand any fluctuations in the internal qi in his body at all.

"Is there anything else that can be done to save him?"

"There is only one place in the world that can save him. Cao Yangming stared at Nalan Zhifeng, and his tone was non-negotiable.

"Go and go, you must save him!" Nalan suddenly looked lost, and then cut the railroad outside the car, "Monk, go to the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers!"

When he heard the three words, the raised horsewhip stopped in mid-air, and he came back to his senses in an instant: "Okay!"

On the trail, iron hooves trampled through countless mud and rocks, and the wind swept away.

Above the court, it was noisy at the moment.

At the beginning of the early dynasty, Fan Xiang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Liu Jing, the joint imperial historian, said that there would be something to play about the world.

Emperor Kangjia Zhu Yezhao knew about this, and originally planned to call Wei Xian to come over and ask him after retiring from the dynasty today - this slave has been becoming more and more disobedient recently, and it is necessary to knock and knock on such a big thing behind his back. But he didn't expect someone to mention it now, which aroused his interest.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that everything in the world will be because Liu Wuhou colluded with Gangzhi, ignored the majesty of the imperial court, and hindered the routine affairs of the imperial court, and his heart can be illuminated!"

Some centrists among the officials pricked up their ears and listened carefully, chewing Fan Xiang's words several times in their hearts and feeling that they were wrong, Fan Xiang and Liu Jing were both eunuchs, which line was wrong today, and they actually faced Liu Jizong and Gangzhiguan?

"Presumptuous, Liu Wuhou is loyal and good, how can you do your dirty things!" A person walked out of the silent hall, pointed at Fan Xiang and Liu Jing's nose and scolded.

This person's name is Zhou Yuanbiao, a member of the Beishu Party, and he is nicknamed "Zhou Maniac", because this person is outspoken, as long as he thinks it is wrong, he will immediately scold, regardless of the occasion, regardless of face. But he is shameless, other people still pay attention to decency as officials, so they can't afford to hide, Zhu Yezhao knows that this person is loyal, but he has a headache.

"However, there are some people who plot against each other and maliciously frame them. Zhou Yuanbiao bowed his head to Zhu Yezhao, but his eyes kept glancing at the two people next to him. "The minister also heard that this world meeting was convened privately by the master of ceremonies, Father-in-law Wei. ”

"Your Majesty! Father-in-law Wei is unintentional, but that is also to rectify the folk sect that does not listen to the allocation for the emperor. Liu Jing knelt on the ground with a bitter and hateful look, as if he had been humiliated, and then raised his head and said with a handful of snot and tears: "If it weren't for Liu Wuhou's connivance with Gangzhiguan to do whatever he wanted, how could this incident happen and lose face in my court?"

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Yuanbiao began to scold again, and then people kept standing up and arguing with each other, arguing until they blushed and had a thick neck.

"Hmph! What kind of noisy and noisy people are in the court?" Seeing Long Yan's anger, the hundred officials immediately bowed their heads and remained silent.

Zhu Yezhao saw that this group of people had finally reined in, and after some deliberation in his mind, he slapped the dragon chair and pointed at Fan Xiang and Liu Jing and scolded: "Liu Wuhou is the general of Zhenguo who protects my rivers and mountains, and he is my right-hand man;

"Please let the emperor take a look. The two of them fell to their knees.

"Forgive you for sharing your worries, since you are a first-time offender, you will be punished with Wei Xian, who is the celebrant of the ceremonial eunuch, for one year. Tianwei is unpredictable, Zhu Yezhao's face suddenly eased, sentenced him to a misdemeanor, and then looked at Zhou Yuanbiao, "As for you, what you said is very reasonable, but it is also a crime to openly disturb the order of the court, so you will be punished for half a year." ”

"Your Majesty, Emperor. The three of them kowtowed and retreated.

A dispute seemed to be over, but the officials smelled something unusual, and immediately consulted with others after the morning court.

When the matter reached Wei Xian, he was very happy, and Emperor Kangjia's final punishment seemed to be dissatisfied with him, but it had another meaning: if Liu Jizong and Gangzhiguan were really as important as he said in his heart, then the three of them would never be so light as a one-year penalty. In addition, Fan Xiang described the scene to him, and the emperor actually thought for a moment before making a decision, indicating that he began to doubt what the two parties were doing. In the end, Zhou Yuanbiao made him feel reassured, but the words of innocence forced him to blame, there is no doubt that Zhou Yuanbiao's words made Zhu Yezhao dissatisfied, even if it was just a little bit, but such a spark would be enough to burn himself in the future!

Liu Jizong, Gangzhiguan, and the Zhou Yuanbiao who just came out, you are dead!

At the mouth of the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, a carriage slowly stopped, and the pulled the curtain in to carry a person on his back, and then carefully got off the car, and when he passed by the two horses, he deliberately stroked the head of a horse next to him with one hand: "Hey, there is really no way to save him, you have also suffered." ”

The horse shook his head, grinned tiredly, and then took Bai Luofeng to move quickly towards the valley.

"Quit empty, stop. Nalan Zhifeng was still very weak, and was helped out of the carriage by Cao Yangming.

"He's dying!" The anxiety in the monk's heart for many days finally broke out, "What do you care about, it wasn't our fault that then!"

Cao Yangming took Nalan Zhifeng to stand firm, walked forward quickly, grabbed Jiekong and shook his head, Jiekong's eyes were red, and finally he swallowed reluctantly and stopped.

"I am so offended to disturb the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers today, just because we ask for one thing, and I hope that the valley master will let us enter the valley. Cao Yangming saluted the empty valley, and the echo was loud enough to reach the deep valley.

Jiekong carried Bai Luofeng on his back, pacing back and forth in place, the breath in his mouth became more and more anxious, and he said viciously to the other two: "If you don't send someone out, we will kill it!"

Seeing that the two of them continued to wait silently, the monk swallowed very unhappily.

"The valley lord said that the poison in the body of the young master of Nalan should be treated in the valley as soon as possible; Mr. Cao, who is highly respected, is also invited to come in and drink a cup of Baihua brew to recuperate; the monk who quits the sky is too murderous to enter the valley, and as for the dead on his body, he can't go in and dirty the anthers in the valley. A crisp sound accompanied by an aura appeared at the mouth of the valley, and the person who came was a girl about ten years old, like a flower and bone that had not bloomed in early spring.

"Chuntang, go back and tell her that if you don't save Bai Luofeng, I Nalan Zhifeng won't step into this valley!"

"Young master, it's been almost ten years since you left, and the valley lord has been waiting for you for so long, can't you go in and see her?"

"It's been ten years since I've been gone, and she's still so willful and unreasonable, what's the difference between seeing it and not seeing it!" Blind Sword's tone became more and more indifferent, breaking away the hands that Chuntang wanted to come over to support, and the fleeting pain in his eyes was accompanied by decisive words: "If you don't let us enter the valley today, don't blame me for breaking in!"