DWGL _ Chapter - 26

Chapter 26: Returning to Wang Cheng/the capital  

This is the Bodhi Sutra

When Caitian hurried over to the house, she saw that it was almost burnt to the ground. If the old man hadn't run out, he would have burnt to the ground by now.

Thousands of calculations hide people here, and everything will be fine if they are not found, but they don't expect to encounter such an accident. Caitian sighed again and again in a hurry and turned around to go to Guilai Village to report to Lan Ji, but the back of her neck was cold.

"Who are you looking for here?" Duan Bai Yue's voice was cold.

"Xinan Wang?" She wanted to turn back but was afraid of the cold blade, so she forced herself to be calm and said, "If Xinan Wang wants someone, just take them with by all means, the servant girl would not dare to complain."

"You don't seem to have heard this  King's question." Duan Bai Yue was impatient, and his hands were a little more forceful.

"Yes." Caitian raised his head, not daring to move an inch, "Old Man Mu Chi."

"Why did the Tian Sha Sect want to capture him?" Duan Bai Yue asked again.

Caitian said: "Because the leader wants to make a secret weapon, the name is a thousand loops, and the old man Mu Chi is the best craftsman in the world.”

“Who else knows about this?" Duan Bai Yue said.

Caitian replied: "There are only the disciples of Tian Sha Sect.”

Duan Bai Yue withdrew the sword and returned to the sheath, Caitian was still able to breathe a sigh of relief, but she was stuck in her neck again, and she didn't know what was stuffed in her mouth, which temporarily turned into a sweet and greasy.

Duan Bai Yue let go of his hand and threw her aside.

Caitian flushed and coughed desperately, trying to spit it out.

“It won't kill you." Duan Bai Yue said, “The last question, the last thing after you have done it, this king will give you the antidote."

“What's the question?” The Gu poison in Xinan Mansion is only better than that of Tian Sha Sect, and Caitian dare not despise it.

Duan Bai Yue said, "Why does Lan Ji want to make a thousand loops?”

Caitian said: “The master met an alien and said that he had a strange medicine that could rejuvenate a woman's skin. And if you want a recipe, you have to exchange it for a thousand loops, and it is said that the only people in this world who know a thousand loops is old man Mu Chi.”

Duan Bai Yue was a bit surprised, he had previously thought that it was just like the Ghost Wooden Box, to sell to the South China Sea to make money, but he did not expect that it was just for a prescription.

"The foreigner gave the sect master half a year, saying that once she got the Thousand Loop, she would go to Wang Cheng to find him." Caitian continued, "No name, no surname, wearing a ghost mask, his left hand as young as a teenager, but his right hand covered with furrows like an old man."

"Pretending to be a god." Duan Bai Yue shook his head.

"The sect master only wants the prescription, but she doesn't know that Duan Wang Ye also wants someone." Caitian continued, "If we had known earlier, the Tian Sha Sect would not have been so insolent as to snatch a man from under the nose of Xinan Mansion."

"Wouldn't have been so presumptuous?" Duan Bai Yue laughed, "When Lan Ji snatched Yao-er, she didn't have such a sense of self-awareness."

Caitian was speechless.

"It's useless even if you talk nicely." Duan Bai Yue said. "Bring Lan Ji here, and I will spare you from death."

Caitian's expression changed dramatically.

"Cooperate with this king, and you just might die." Duan Bai Yue said, "If you don't cooperate, you are worse off than dead."

Caitian's face turned white: "Please don't make things difficult, Xinan Wang."

"That's funny." Duan Bai Yue raised the corners of his mouth, "The most common thing Xinan Mansion does is to force people to do things that they don't want to do, but the more interesting it is to force them."

Caitian: "......"

"That kind of morality, righteousness and benevolence of the martial arts world, no amount of talk is going to help." Duan Bai Yue said, "If I were you, I wouldn't want to cooperate and suffer, so I would jump off this cliff myself and be done with it. It would be better than waiting for the compulsion to strike a few days later when it would be much easier to kill yourself."

Caitian's hands were shaking.

"If she finds out about your affair with Lord Jing Hui behind Lan Ji's back, it would be difficult to keep a corpse, not to mention a living one." Duan Bai Yue raised his eyebrows.

Caitian's chest rose and fell violently as she was poked in the chest: "I will bring the sect master here myself, so please keep your promise, Xinan Wang."

Duan Bai Yue reminded, "Before dawn."

Caitian turned around and ran down the hill.

Returning to Village Villa, Lan Ji was still meditating in the room and heard someone jump into the courtyard. Previously, she thought it was Qi Zuimeng who was not satisfied and came to ask for love, but when she opened the door, it was Caitian.

“What happened?" Seeing her complexion different, Lan Ji frowned.

"Master, something has happened on the mountain." Caitian was out of breath, "There was a big fire and it burned the cabin to the ground."

"What?" Lan Ji was furious, "Where are the disciples who were left behind to guard?"

"I don't know if they were burnt to death together in the cabin or if they have left with the old man, Mu Chi." Caitian said, "There seems to be something strange in the ashes, so I dare not act rashly, would you like to check for yourself?"

“Asshole!" Lan Ji didn't doubt her, cursed fiercely, left GuiLai Village with her, and went to the mountains to see what happened.

Getting closer and closer to the wooden house, Caitian's palms gradually sweated with cold sweat.

The thick smoke had not completely dissipated. Looking at the scorched wooden rafters, Lan Ji couldn't help but speed up, but Caitian deliberately took two steps back and distanced herself from her.

The sky had already begun to shine, and the remaining ashes did not look strange. Lan Ji turned around and just wanted to ask what was going on, but a three-foot blade broke through the wind.

“Xinan Wang!" Lan Ji flew out of the way, staggered under her feet, and almost fell in embarrassment.

Duan Bai Yue made a fierce move and forced people to the cliff all the way.

When he met her in the forest, he had not yet recovered from his internal injuries and he had Duan Yao with him, so he did not dare to be careless. But this time, he was determined to take her life - although it was not appropriate for Xinan Mansion to intervene in the fight against the Demon Cult, as it was a matter for the Martial Alliance, he would not give up now that he had provoked it, and there were still more than 20 old people in Guilai Village waiting to be saved.

The Tian Sha Sect is extremely evil, and when it reached Lan Ji, it became even more sinister. At first, she thought they would be even at best, but Duan Bai Yue's moves became more and more ruthless as he fought, his body chilled and his forehead and palms were covered in strange green and blue totems.

“You!" Trapped by the edge of the cliff with her throat locked, Lan Ji's eyes were horrified.

"This is the Bodhi Heart Sutra you want." Duan Bai Yue's eyes were red, "Yao-er never practiced it, you've been looking for the wrong person."

Lan Ji's breathing was labored and her eyes faded.

Duan Bai Yue struck her with a palm to the chest, knocking her off the cliff.

“Xinan Wang." Seeing all this with her own eyes, Caitian knelt on the ground with a “puff”, shaking like a sieve. Although she knew the Bodhi Heart Sutra, she only regarded it as an extremely mysterious secret, but looking at the demon-like appearance of Duan Bai Yue just now, she was afraid that it was not an orthodox kung fu, but a half-step into the evil way.

Duan Bai Yue said indifferently, "Just pretend you didn't see what happened just now."

"Thank you, Wang Ye, thank you, Wang Ye." Caitian nodded her head repeatedly.

"The Demon Sect has done a lot of evil, you should not have had a chance to live." Duan Bai Yue said, "But today you have made up for your mistakes. Go and bring out the old men and someone will take you to Xinan Wang's Mansion to receive your punishment."

"Yes." Caitian stood up and went down the hill with him.

It wasn't until it was dawn that there was movement in Guilai Village. Qi Zuimeng went out after washing, still thinking about going to find Lan Ji happily, but someone came to tell him that Caitian had already taken the old people out of the house, and Lan Ji didn't know where he had gone, only the rest of the congregation hadn't gotten up yet and were still resting.

"Forget it." Qi Zuimeng drank most of the wine before staggering off to the wine cellar to make wine. But this day, he did not see Lan Ji and Caitian return until dark, so before he went to bed, he inevitably wondered where they had gone.

It was okay for two days a day, but no one was seen on the three, four, five, and six days. Qi Zuimeng came to his senses and realized that something was wrong. He hastily recruited the rest of Tian Sha Sect to ask, but they all looked at each other in a daze.

But obviously, no one will explain it to him.

Duan Bai Yue returned to Dayan City with more than 20 old people and put them up in a courier house for the time being.

Seeing him return safely, Chu Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. Eunuch Si Xi also smiled and whispered, ‘His Majesty has mentioned Wang Ye more than a dozen times these days, and he cares about you.’

Duan Bai Yue was in a good mood, and after bathing and changing his clothes, he went next door to look for someone but was told by Duan Nian that the emperor had gone to the government office and would probably not be back for a while.

Duan Bai Yue: "......"

Duan Nian also wanted to sigh for his king. He had changed his new clothes, but no one appreciated them, so it was sad to think about it.

The city was also abuzz with rumors that the old men in the Goodwill Hall had not died but had been replaced by the Southwest Demon Cult that night, using dead bodies that had been prepared and smuggled out of the city.

Xu Zhiqiu has also heard the news and is now in his study in a frenzy. He was not afraid of being convicted for closing the case confusingly, after all, even Lord Pao might not have never decided an unjust case, but at most he would be fined for a year and the official would be demoted to a higher rank. But these old people were previously kidnapped by the Tian Sha Sect, but now they have been snatched back by the court. No one can guarantee that his dealings with Lan Ji will be watertight, nor do they know what the emperor knows.

But before he could make sense of it and find a good excuse, the imperial guards broke through the door, put on the shackles and dragged him to Chu Yuan.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Xu Zhiqiu was shivering, his face ashen.

"Xu Aiqing." Chu Yuan said indifferently, "I want to confiscate the treasury on the hill outside the city, do you have any opinion?"

Xu Zhiqiu fell to the ground with his buttocks, and he was so scared that he couldn't help it.

The people were dumbfounded by the shiny gold that was brought back to the city from outside the mountains and the tables, chairs and benches that had been made in the city over the years. Where did these officials get all this money?

After the raid on the Wu family's carriage shop, Boss Wu also kneels down and confesses his guilt. He was originally just a small trader, but he was later spotted by Xu Zhiqiu, and after being persuaded by the governor himself every day, he had the guts to start making his own Ghost Boxes, which he hid in his wardrobe and sold to firearms merchants in the South China Sea.

As for the drawings of the ghost wooden box, it is said that Xu Zhiqiu spent a lot of money to buy it from a crazy old man. It is not known who this person is.

“Crazy old man, could it be Mu Chi?" Duan Bai Yue asked.

Chu Yuan nodded: “I was also thinking, except for him, there should be no second person in this martial arts.”

"Although the cabin was on fire, I always think that he might not have died.” Duan Bai Yue said, "He took the soft tendon powder and was guarded by the disciples of the Tian Sha Sect, so it is impossible that the fire started for no reason. It's more likely that they were secretly robbed and then set fire to cover their ears."

Chu Yuan pondered, "Hmm."

"Since I promised you that I would bring him back, I will definitely do it." Duan Bai Yue said, "Just give me some more time, huh?"

Chu Yuan returned to his senses and said, "Forget about the old man Mu Chi, the old men in the Hall of Goodwill have returned safely thanks to Xinan Mansion."

"Is it Xinan Mansion or me?" Duan Bai Yue asked.

Chu Yuan paused and said firmly, "Xinan Mansion."

Duan Bai Yue shook his head, "Then next time you have a decree, remember to give it to Xinan Mansion, not Xinan Wang." Even if you give it to me, I won't take it.

Chu Yuan was intrigued, "Give it to Yao-er?"

"I'm afraid Yao-er will be scared to tears." Duan Bai Yue laughed along with him, reaching out to pour tea, but a pain rose up in his chest.

"What is it again?" Chu Yuan just thought he was still acting and reached out to nudge him, "Seriously, who do you think would want to kidnap old man Mu Chi?"

"Everyone in Jianghu wants a secret weapon." Duan Bai Yue forced down the bloody breath in his mouth, "It's not accurate, and the other party seems to be not weak."

“Hmm." Chu Yuan continued to think.

Duan Bai Yue was sweating a little bit on his back, so he stood up and said, "I'll go next door and have a look.”

Chu Yuan nodded and watched him go all the way out of the door. He stretched out his hand and poured a cup of tea before drinking it, but heard Si Xi exclaiming from outside: “Wang Ye, what's wrong with you?"

Duan Bai Yue knelt under the corridor pillar with a pale face, blood spilling out of the corner of his mouth, his heart felt like an ice blade cutting through him.

Chu Yuan stepped forward and held him up.

"It's alright." Duan Bai Yue forced himself to stand up and swept the person away with a wave of his hand, stumbling into the room.

"Your Majesty." Si Xi hurriedly helped him, "Be careful of the back steps."

Chu Yuan stretched out his hand and patted the door hard: “Duan Bai Yue!”

“It will be fine after a while of rest. It's just a bit of energy and blood attack.” Duan Bai Yue sat down against the door, beads of sweat falling from his forehead.

“Open the door!" Chu Yuan was extremely angry.

Duan Bai Yue lifted his palm and pressed it against his chest, trying to push back the rebellious Qi in his body. The Bodhi Heart Sutra is inherently evil, and he did not practice it properly, so it was not unusual for him to do so by forcing his kung fu, but he did not expect it to backfire so soon.

When he refused to leave behind the door, Chu Yuan simply shattered the window with his palm.

Eunuch Si Xi was shocked, how could the emperor be so fierce?

Duan Bai Yue was helpless and let the wood scraps fly all over the place, but there was nothing he could do.

Looking at the faint lines on his forehead, Chu Yuan didn't have time to ask more questions, so he helped him to bed and took a pill for him.

Duan Bai Yue said, "What is it?"

Chu Yuan gritted his teeth, "He Ding Hong (Heding red; impure arsenic trioxide)."

Duan Bai Yue closed his eyes and pretended that he had already ascended to heaven, and even spat out his tongue.

Chu Yuan was so angry that he wanted to laugh. After holding his wrist and testing his pulse, he let him lean against his arms and lifted his palm to press on his heart.

The warmth of the Qi was poured into his limbs and bones. Although it could not completely dispel the bone-chilling cold, it could ease the pain.

It took about an incense stick for Chu Yuan to withdraw his palm: "How is it?"

Duan Bai Yue nodded: "Thank you."

"What kind of kung fu did Senior Nan teach you." Chu Yuan took his hand and looked at it to make sure the strange totems had dissipated before he breathed a sigh of relief, "How did you get so badly injured internally?"

Duan Bai Yue said from the bottom of his heart, "I couldn't help it, my father didn't find a good master." A pit that would last a lifetime.

"Is it serious?" Chu Yuan still frowned, "If it is always like this, then I will send someone to Jiangnan to fetch Xiao Jin."

"It's not really a disease, I'm afraid even a miracle doctor can't help." Duan Bai Yue sat up with support, "Why don't I drink more hot water?"

Chu Yuan: "......"

"It's true." Duan Bai Yue smiled, "I'm thirsty."

Chu Yuan had to ask Si Xi to bring in tea.

Duan Bai Yue drank most of the pot in one gulp, and only then did his face get bloodshot.

Chu Yuan took a handkerchief and wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead: "Do you want to bathe?"

Duan Bai Yue nodded his head.

A few moments later, a large bucket of hot water was brought in and Chu Yuan temporarily returned to the next room.

"Your Majesty, is Wang Ye alright?" Eunuch Si Xi asked worriedly.

"It should be fine; it will be fine after a little more rest." Chu Yuan thought for a moment, "I will write a letter, you should send it to the Riyue Villa in Jiangnan to Shen Qian Feng without delay."

Si Xi agreed and hurried to help him grind the ink.

Duan Bai Yue soaked in the bathtub and took a long time to recover.

Duan Nian lifted two tiles and jumped down from the top.

Duan Bai Yue: "......"

"I'm here to deliver medicine to Wang Ye." Duan Nian said.

Duan Bai Yue was confused: "What kind of medicine?"

"I don't know." Duan Nian opened a cloth bag, "Master Nan just sent someone to send it to me, saying that it should be added to the water when bathing, good!"

Duan Bai Yue: "......"

What do you mean by "good"? It's a bit too general.

Duan Nian had already uncorked the bottle.

"Hold on!" Duan Bai Yue took his hand in his.

Duan Nian insisted: "Master Nan has said that it is necessary to add."

Duan Bai Yue put his nose to it and smelled it.

Duan Nian continued, "Master Nan also said that if Wang Ye refused to add it, then it would be the same if you ate it."

Duan Bai Yue decided to put the stopper in place.

Duan Nian was embarrassed: "Master Nan would kill this subordinate."

Duan Bai Yue slanted his eyes: "Can't this king kill you?"

Duan Nian's face instantly became bitter.

"Retreat." Duan Bai Yue said.

Duan Nian walked to the window and turned back, saying, "There is one more thing."

"If you say one more word, you will be the one to take this bottle of medicine." Duan Bai Yue shook the porcelain bottle in his hand.

Duan Nian said, "If Wang Ye had been willing to pretend his hands and legs were weak, perhaps the emperor could have stayed."

Duan Bai Yue: "......"

Duan Nian clutched his head and burst out of the window.

Duan Bai Yue leaned back against the wall of the barrel and wondered if he had recovered a little too quickly.

After all, as the saying goes, there are many lovers at the bedside after a long illness.

But after thinking about it, Duan Bai Yue dressed up and went next door after his bath.

He really didn't want to make that person worry, and he really didn't want that person to think that he looked sick.

Chu Yuan frowned: "Why don't you rest?"

Duan Bai Yue spoke in a relaxed tone, "It's not uncommon for people who practice martial arts to be unable to suppress their internal strength once or twice, so don't worry about it."

Chu Yuan said, "That's more or less the same as being sick for a while." He had to lie down for two days with a wind chill.

"One thing, I will go and rest after I finish." Duan Bai Yue said, "About the Thousand Loop, it sounds like an amazing weapon, even more so than the Ghost Wooden Box."

"So what?" Chu Yuan shook his head, "Now that the life and death of Old Man Mu Chi is still unknown, I'm afraid that until he appears, this Thousand Loop will only become a secret forever."

But Duan Bai Yue smiled, "There is another person who will not do it, but he must know the secret."

Chu Yuan thought for a moment and said, "The buyer of the Tian Sha Sect?”

"Exactly him." Duan Bai Yue said, "Since he is willing to buy it, it means that he at least knows what it is used for. According to the Tian Sha Sect, he should be in Wang Cheng at this time."

Chu Yuan said, "Oh."

The room was quiet.

After a few more moments, Duan Bai Yue continued, "If Xinan Wang wants to go to Wang Cheng, which lord do I need to report to?"

Chu Yuan pursed his lips and smiled, "Have I given you permission to enter the capital?"

"If I am allowed to go, I will go openly, but if I am not allowed to go, I will go secretly." Duan Bai Yue propped up his cheeks and spoke in a somewhat rogue tone, "It's not like I haven't disobeyed orders to go before."

"How dare you say that." Chu Yuan knocked him on the head, "You can go to Wang Cheng, but is your injury really okay? Maybe you should go back to Xinan Mansion and seek treatment from Master Nan before coming back."

"You trust me." Duan Bai Yue held his hand, "If we wait for it to heal on its own, it might be faster."

Chu Yuan first froze, and then his ears flushed red and he pulled his hand back.

Duan Bai Yue looked calmly out of the window, "Calling Si Xi again, huh?"

Chu Yuan had to swallow back the words that were on his lips.

Duan Bai Yue's eyes smiled even more.

Chu Yuan became angry and shook his hand and went out.

Eunuch Si Xi complained in his heart, why did Xinan Wang always tease the emperor, blushing when he saw this, I was afraid that he would only have vegetables to eat at night.

Three days later, the imperial army returned in great numbers, heading north.

After another period, a letter was also received in Xinan Mansion. After Duan Yao finished reading it, he hugged Aunt Jin and didn't let go. Why did he go to Wang Cheng again? I'm not going. I'm going to raise insects in the Mansion!

Nan Mo Xie was very eager to go, so he happily packs his bag and knocked his crying apprentice out with a slap, leading him all the way out of the city.

Aunt Jin was worried in the back, Master Nan couldn't do it, he didn't even want a carriage, so he carried him and left.

By the time the army arrived in Wang Cheng in a mighty manner, the time had come in the scorching summer. Duan Bai Yue lives in an inn near the palace and can see the Golden Throne Hall from the roof.

The piles of folders in the imperial study were as high as a man's head, and although there was a group of ministers led by Tai Fu, some matters could only be decided when the emperor returned. Fortunately, Chu Yuan was so diligent that he did not even take a day off when he returned and started to deal with the backlog in batches and could not return to the Imperial Chamber until late at night every day.

Tao Rende could see this, and his worries were relieved. The emperor is good at everything, but he really loves to go out too much. The first few times he went to Dayan City, he had no reason to do so. Even if he had known about Xu Zhiqiu's corruption of Jinshan, he could have sent an envoy to the city, why would he go there himself?

Lord Liu was happy because the return of the emperor meant that he had fewer chores on his hands and could talk more about matchmaking.

"Lao Liu." Tao Tai Fu had a headache when he saw him, "General Shen has said no, why can't you marry your niece to someone else?"

"This time it's not for General Shen's sake." Liu Da Jiong said, "I wonder if Taifu has ever heard of Sai Pan An?"

Taifu said in disgust, "What kind of lame name is that?"

"It's a lame name, but it's said to be very dignified." Liu Da Jiong said with a flourish, "There will be a tournament in the royal city today, would you like to come with me to see it?"

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