DWGL _ Chapter - 02
Jiu Xuanji, I Want That Bead
The kingdom of Anu is located on the northwest border, and its ruler is named Shada. Like the rest of the nomadic tribes, the tribal people live by water and grass and have no fixed territory, but they have a cavalry whose strength cannot be underestimated. When Chu Yuan first ascended the throne, the various tribes in the north of the desert had been restless and the people at the border were suffering greatly. At that time, the main forces of the imperial court were restrained by the Japanese bandits in the southeast. Unable to do so, he had to send envoys to the Anu Kingdom secretly, lobbying Shada and General Zhenxi to send troops together, only to temporarily suppress the turmoil in the northern desert and stop it for two years.
It is precisely for this reason that the Chu Kingdom has always regarded the Anu Kingdom as an ally. The deceased in this street was Shada's younger brother, named Guli. He originally led the ministry to Chu to pay tribute. Later, seeing that Wang Cheng was prosperous and just in time for the Chinese New Year, he stayed for a while, and planned to wait for the mountains to snow and set off back to the northwest, but he didn't expect to die here.
The matter was so important that they did not dare to slacken off. They hurriedly carried the corpse in the direction of the palace.
Outside the door of the palace, Eunuch Si Xi was leaning against the door, taking a nap, when he heard someone coming, he opened his eyes.
"Eunuch, where is His Majesty?" Lord Li was old and panting as he took a few more steps.
"He has just fallen asleep, Your Excellency, is something seriously wrong?" Eunuch Si Xi was also surprised.
"No." Lord Li said anxiously, "I don't care about etiquette even though I'm burning, so I'd like to ask Your Excellency to pass on the news to His Majesty."
"What is it, Aiqing?" Before Eunuch Si Xi could reply, Chu Yuan had already pushed the door and walked out.
"Your Majesty." Lord Li rushed forward, "Just now the Commander of the Imperial Guard came to me, saying that a corpse was found in the alleyway behind the Blessed Fortune Gate, the young prince of the Anu Kingdom, who had been stabbed through the heart from behind."
"Guli?" Chu Yuan's brow tightened.
"It is true." Lord Li said, "I have ordered the news to be sealed and the body is temporarily housed in the empty house next to the hunting garden."
"Let's go and have a look." As Chu Yuan headed down the steps, Si Xi hurriedly took out his cloak from the hall and put it on his shoulders for him as he ran along.
Why did something happen again for no reason?
In the Xinan King's Mansion, Duan Bai Yue is drinking alone in front of the moon, a blunt sword on the stone table in front of him, shining with white light.
A slight figure jumped down from the fence and was visibly startled to see someone in the courtyard.
"Where have you been again?" Duan Bai Yue put down his glass of wine.
"Why don't you go to bed in the middle of the night and sit here to meet a ghost?" Duan Yao breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought it was Master again."
"Master passed away three years ago." Duan Bai Yue reminded him.
"That's not certain, what if he comes back to life? He's familiar with this kind of thing." Duan Yao took off the seven or eight small bamboo pouches at his waist, which were filled with larvae of various colors, buzzing around and making people's brains throb.
"Three-eyed blood?" Duan Bai Yue picked one up, "Not bad luck."
"Hey, I've been on guard for almost half a month before I caught this one." Duan Yao was wary, "You'll have to find it yourself."
"You think too much, I'm not really in the mood to compete with you for bugs and compulsions." Duan Bai Yue shook his head, "Go back and pack your bag."
"Where are you going to send me again?" Duan Yao's eyes widened.
"I'm going to Chu's royal city." Duan Bai Yue said.
Duan Yao took two steps back: "If you want to go, then go, what's it to me?"
Duan Bai Yue replied, "Because you are useful."
Duan Yao: "......"
"If I leave you alone in this King's Mansion, I think the mansion will be gone by the time I return." Duan Bai Yue said, "It will either be blown up by you or by an enemy."
Duan Yao was deflated and sat down on a stone bench, "You're just going to use me."
"How can I take advantage of it?" Duan Bai Yue said, "I told you earlier that you should temper your temper and not piss off a few scholars. Other people are already taking the exams at the age of fourteen, but you can't even speak, even if you can't recite poetry. It hurts to think about it."
Duan Yao covered his ears with his hands, originally intending to listen as if he had heard nothing, but his eyes were drawn to the blunt sword on the table: "What is it?"
"I don't know." Duan Bai Yue shook his head, "It's just been dug out of the ground."
"You went to dig up a human ancestor's grave?" Duan Yao was suspicious.
"It was left to me by my master before he died." Duan Bai Yue said, "I was told to dig it up tonight."
"You've probably been punked again." Duan Yao picked up the bamboo pocket on the table and didn't even bother to look at the sword.
Duan Bai Yue agreed, "I think so too."
When he was eight years old, his master took him up the mountain and picked a handful of poisonous flowers that he didn't know what they were. They said that inserting them in the room would greatly increase their skills. As a result, everyone was ghosted the next day, and they walked lightly and almost fell into the water. Since then, the fool has been able to remember for a long time, and he has never confiscated the gift from the master. This is the second one.
Duan Yao yawned and went back to sleep.
Duan Bai Yue raised his head and drank the last glass of wine, and returned to the bedroom with a blunt sword.
Three days later, Duan Yao looked at the two horses in front of him and asked, “Only you and I, just quietly groped out of the palace?"
Duan Bai Yue nodded: "Naturally, do you have to play gongs and drums to celebrate?”
“I thought Emperor Chu knew about it." Duan Yao said tactfully.
Duan Bai Yue shook his head: "Except for you, there will be no third person who knows about this.”
Duan Yao: “......”
Xinan King secretly went to Chu, which was a crime of killing his head.
Although I know he won't take this seriously, but... well, what are you going to do in Chu?
“Jia!” Duan Bai Yue flicked his whip and galloped towards the north.
The four hoofs of the black horse are like the wind, crushing the stars all the way.
The dew that had accumulated all night fell from the roof and splashed on the ground, causing a cold spring.
In Wang Cheng, the small stall owners who made breakfast also opened the benches, tables and chairs, and rushed to sell the cold lamb soup for a few more days in this weather, so they should be replaced with buns and gruel to make flatbread. After all, it's getting warmer and warmer.
“Ten bowls of lamb soup and twenty flatbreads." A team of officers and soldiers sat down, looking like they had been busy all night.
“Okay, wait a minute." The boss's hands and feet were extremely fast, and he brought up the sheep soup flatbread in a moment. He was obviously familiar with everyone, and asked with a smile, “Why have you been watching the big guys busy lately? Yesterday morning, Commander Zhang also took people on patrol. Come to me for breakfast.”
“It's not a big deal, it's just a daily patrol.” The officers and soldiers who started hastily perfunctorily said a few words and then lowered their heads to drink soup and eat cakes. The boss was also silent when he saw this and did not strike up a conversation again. But he started to feel a little bottomless in his heart. Looking at the posture, could it be that something really happened?
In the palace, Chu Yuan still had a headache after drinking the medicine.
Although someone has been investigating in the dark in the past few days, they have not obtained any useful clues. After Guli finished roast duck in Tongfulou that day, he went to the teahouse to listen to a song and then left contentedly. He even gave Qin Niang a lot of silver rewards. There didn't seem to be anything unusual. Everyone thought he was alone. He returned to the house, but he didn't expect that after only a few hours, he was found dead in the alley by a watchman.
"Your Majesty." The official in charge of investigating the case is Cai Jin, "There are already some rumors in the city, in my opinion, it is better to inform Anu Kingdom of this matter as soon as possible, it would be futile to delay."
Chu Yuan sat on the dragon chair, his eyebrows had not been relaxed for a long time.
Although the northwest border seemed to be quiet in the past two years, the root of the conflict had never been eliminated. The reason why the various ministries had stayed put was that they were afraid of the court's strength and because of the assistance of the Anu Kingdom. Now that Guli has tragically died in Wang Cheng, Shada has always been irritable and impulsive. If he is provoked by people, I am afraid that the hidden dangers are endless.
"Your Majesty." When he remained silent, Cai Jin had to remind him again in a low voice.
“I will personally revise a letter and send it to the Anu kingdom the next day." After contemplating, Chu Yuan finally said out loud, and asked again, "It's time for Qian Fan to come back too, right?"
“Back to Your Majesty, General Shen will arrive in Wang Cheng in about seven days." Cai Jin said, “If they hurry up on the road, he will be there in five days."
Chu Yuan nodded and waved his hand to let him retreat first.
The territory of Chu is vast, and the farther north it goes, the colder it gets. As soon as Duan Yao left the southwest, he was fashionable and wearing a single coat. A few days later, he changed into a thick padded jacket. He refused to leave the brazier even for dinner at night. He just wanted to get into bed and not come out, but Duan Bai Yue carried him all the way out of the inn.
“Where are you going again?" Duan Yao asked.
“Be a guest." Duan Bai Yue replied.
“Are you a thief?" Duan Yao pierced him.
Duan Bai Yue took him to the roof of a house steadily.
Duan Yao yawned.
“Go get something for me." Duan Bai Yue said.
"Steal if you want, and take." Duan Yao bristled, "What is it?"
"See that tower in front of you?" Duan Bai Yue said, "There is a secret room on the top floor, I want that pearl."
"First of all, just steal this one, I have to sleep in the second half of the night." Duan Yao patted the dust on his clothes.
Duan Bai Yue nodded his head.
Duan Yao stood up and moved his wrist, and disappeared into the night in no time.
Duan Bai Yue rubbed his chin and quietly followed behind him.
The pagoda was very dilapidated and slag was falling everywhere. Duan Yao looked disgusted as soon as he entered. When he tried his best to avoid the traps and got the pearl with a head of dust, he was about to scold his mother and greet Duan's ancestors.
"Very good." After turning back, Duan Bai Yue was still waiting for him at the same spot.
"Take it, your broken bead." Duan Yao looked like he was throwing a cockroach, "It's filthy."
"Do you know what this is?" Duan Bai Yue shook the box in his hand.
"I don't know, nor do I want to know." Duan Yao pulled his sleeve and wiped his hands, "Let's go, go back."
"That tower is the Jiu Xuanji." Duan Bai Yue continued.
"What do I care if it's Jiu or ...... Jiu Xuanji?" Duan Yao opened his eyes wide, "The Tower of the Mechanism?"
Duan Bai Yue nodded his head.
"Jiu Xuanji, which are filled with concealed weapons to kill people? This is the broken tower?" Duan Yao confirmed once again, "This bead is the Fenxing from the Jianghu rumor?"
Duan Bai Yue continued to nod his head.
Duan Yao took a deep breath and then became furious, "So you're just going to let me go?"
Many great warriors had died in there, and even with their steel armor on, they could be shot through. No wonder the room was full of dead people, white bones and ghost skeletons when I entered.
Can he be any more reliable?
—— ฅʕ•̫͡•ʔฅ ——ㄚ
Note:
- 焚星 (Fenxing): the burning star
- 九玄機 (Jiu Xuanji): Nine Mysteries
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