Before dawn, Ye Tianwen had already learned the news and his face was gloomy.
However, Yin Xiu just pretended that she didn't know anything, followed Bai Fenghuang out, and stretched.
"What, you were very tired last night?"
Mrs. Lin was on the side, staring at Yin Xiu, trying to see something from him.
However, Yin Xiu just smiled, "Wouldn't it be disrespectful to stay in the same room with such a beauty and not be tired at night?"
When Bai Fenghuang heard this, he turned around and remembered what Yin Xiu had done last night and the fact that he pressed the wrong acupuncture point in the back. He couldn't help but blush, and walked away quickly.
Mrs. Lin just said coldly: "It's a good thing for young people to be energetic and like to toss around. But don't make any mistakes or take the wrong path."
"Don't worry, I won't take the wrong path, because I have already made many mistakes in my short life. Where is breakfast? Is breakfast ready?"
"Tsk..."
On the contrary, Mrs. Lin frowned and said, "Boy, you are no different from a hostage now. Your life is completely in the hands of others. Aren't you afraid that something will happen to you? Can you still eat?"
"Unexpected? Shouldn't you be concerned about this kind of thing for me?"
Yin Xiu said happily: "If I die, I'm afraid you will also have a lot of trouble."
"This is natural."
Knowing that he was irritating herself, Mrs. Lin said without any yin or yang: "If you were not important, I wouldn't put such a big insect into your body.
But you'd better be able to help, otherwise, it's hard for me to guarantee that the bug won't get out of control all of a sudden. ”
"Whether I can help or not depends on God's will."
Yin Xiu pointed to the sky, "Isn't it often said? God depends on people to make things happen."
"Conspiracy? What do you think we are planning?" Lin Po asked abruptly.
"I don't know about that."
Yin Xiu spread her hands, "But you also said that you and the people from the country are also involved in some conspiracy. You know very well what you are planning."
"What else do you know?" Mrs. Lin said seriously.
"What else should I know?"
Yin Xiu walked away, "Maybe it's today's breakfast?"
Mrs. Lin was completely speechless, gave up trying to trick Yin Xiu into words, and just let him go.
Yin Xiu had come to Ye Tianwen's side at this time, holding two flower scrolls in his hands.
Seeing him coming, Ye Tianwen stretched out his hand, but Yin Xiu ignored him and just ate one bite at a time, with hot white gas coming out of his mouth.
"Do you know that it's very impolite for you to do this?" Ye Tianwen frowned.
"What's so impolite about this?"
Yin Xiu said rudely: "You don't take it yourself, but someone else takes it, and you ask for it from him. Is this politeness and politeness?"
"That's not what I'm talking about."
Ye Tianwen gritted his teeth and lowered his voice.
"I mean, why do you want to kill all those Chinese people? They have no grievances against you, right?"
Yin Xiu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "What on earth are you talking about?"
"Stop pretending!"
Ye Tianwen was very serious, "To be able to kill a cavalry team single-handedly, two masters must have both courage and skill, and they must be necessary. In this hundred miles, you are the only one.
Yin Xiu, you killed them, right? ”
Seeing that Ye Tianwen really noticed it and lowered his voice, obviously not wanting others to know, Yin Xiu simply admitted it.
"Yes, I did."
Yin Xiu nodded, "How about it, do you plan to deal with me now?"
"No."
Ye Tianwen shook his head, "I just want to ask you why you did this."
"Because once they die, they can prevent more people from bleeding. It's that simple."
Ye Tianwen's eyes widened, "Do you think we can't defeat the imperial court, even with the help of the people from the country?"
"If you can't beat it, you can't beat it."
Yin Xiu said seriously: "How many people are you? In the capital city of Shu, the people living there alone are many times more than the tens of thousands of Miao people.
Just because the Chinese have given you a few broken guns, you just want to take all the Miao people with you and die together? Just to pave the way for the Chinese people, or to conduct an experiment?”
"Then you want us to submit willingly to the imperial court? Bend our knees in front of those adults and the governor?"
Ye Tianwen had obviously considered the consequences of Yin Xiu's words, "I have to take a gamble. Maybe if it works this time, we Miao people can stand up and become the founders of this great empire?
In the past, people from the grasslands have been to Yujing more than once, so why can't they come to us? ”
"Because even you don't want to believe it yourself, and you're not sure that it can be done."
Yin Xiu saw Ye Tianwen's emotions hidden behind his determined eyes, "Actually, you just want to fulfill your righteousness. You want to lead all the Miao people and shed the last drop of blood for the ideals of the predecessors. That's it." Simple.”
"Rebellion is something our ancestors have been doing for generations."
Ye Tianwen did not answer Yin Xiu directly, "I just do the same thing. Isn't it normal for the Miao people to cause chaos? It is the same in any dynasty.
Would you go to the grassland and ask people to herd sheep instead of plowing grain?
Or should you go to the deep mountains of the rain forest and tell the tribes not to grow grass or cut off human heads as sacrifices?
It's very difficult. This is a huge inertia that cannot be changed by you or me with just one word.
It is precisely because of this that the officials in southern Xinjiang are so afraid of us and are on guard against us. ”
"But they don't dare to do anything to you, right?"
Yin Xiu handed him a flower scroll, "Because you are dangerous enough, you are also safe enough."
"You mean, you want us to give up our ambition to fight for the world and continue to stay in southern Xinjiang for the rest of our lives?" Ye Tianwen hesitated.
"You will understand one day. You think for yourself and then do it yourself. Others can't help you or persuade you."
Yin Xiu jumped down from the steps and walked away with her hands behind her back.
"The joke about the emperor's hegemony is like a dream in life!"
Ye Tianwen held the flower roll in his hand and looked at Yin Xiu's walking figure. He finally took a bite and turned to his men and ordered: "After breakfast, set off to Yufeng Mountain!"
……
Yin Xiu didn't know if she had persuaded or asked Ye Tianwen to change his mind. Anyway, at this time, they were still moving towards Yufeng Temple according to their original plan.
He was riding a horse, swaying with the rhythm of the horse's movement. The silver ornaments on the white phoenix's body reflected the silver ornaments into his eyes from time to time. "Bai Fenghuang, do girls in Miao Village wear a lot of silver jewelry?"
White Phoenix and White Peacock are like this, and so is Akko.
"Of course it is. Don't the Han people also have a saying? It is said that a man should bring eight taels of gold with him when he goes out, so that he can stay close to him."
Bai Fenghuang touched the hanging silver earring, "My grandma gave it to me, saying it can keep me safe.
In the future, I will also pass it on to my granddaughter. How about it? Is it beautiful? ”
Yin Xiu stretched out her hand and held the earring in her hand, feeling a chill coming into her palm.
Bai Fenghuang was stunned for a moment, and then slapped Yin Xiu's hand away.
"I only told you to look at it, but who told you to touch it?" she said angrily.
"Sorry, sorry, I thought I could touch it."
Yin Xiu clasped her hands together and apologized repeatedly.
In this way, Bai Fenghuang finally lost all her anger. She just thought that Yin Xiu didn't understand the rules and warned her seriously: "Remember, a girl's silver jewelry is different from her hands and legs. You can't touch it casually."< br>
"It sounds like arms and legs are enough..."
"What can you do?" Bai Fenghuang's eyes widened.
"Nothing."
Yin Xiu waved her hand to skip this topic.
However, Bai Fenghuang still whispered: "If you touch her, it means you want to marry her."
Yin Xiu didn't hear it, and just thought that Bai Fenghuang really cared about the earrings. After all, they had been fighting around before, and Bai Fenghuang didn't seem to be so angry.
So I could only think that I had made a mistake, and quickly pulled away to avoid being caught by Bai Phoenix again and scolded.
Yin Xiu pulled the horse to the other side of the road. At this time, they had actually slowly climbed up the mountain, and the road had become narrower than before.
The surrounding area has changed from flat and low to high and dangerous.
The mountains are undulating, right at Yin Xiu's feet, and only a few feet away is the cliff.
Yufeng Mountain is one of the mountains east of Jiaozhi and is not famous.
However, because of the news about the elixir and scriptures, people from the Mingyue Sect came here just to explore the secret treasure hidden in Yufeng Temple.
After the team marched for a while, Yin Xiu looked at Bai Fenghuang again.
She was riding a horse, wandering not far from the cliff, gradually turning the horse's head, or in other words, following the horse's footsteps and direction, heading towards the bottomless abyss.
Hello!
Yin Xiu quickly pulled Bai Fenghuang off the horse, but the horse walked straight forward without making any sound until it fell off the cliff.
The cliffhanger doesn't seem to be happening here.
Only then did Bai Fenghuang react. He couldn't help but feel scared, and his hands tightened on Yin Xiu's clothes.
It wasn't until Granny Lin and Uncle Qingmu arrived that she finally jumped off Yin Xiu's hands in embarrassment, her legs dripping with sweat.
"What's going on?"
As Mrs. Lin spoke, she waved a piece of talisman paper beside Bai Phoenix, as if to drive something away.
Although Bai Fenghuang was brave and quickly recovered from the shock just now, he really didn't know what happened and was speechless for a moment.
At this moment, another exclamation came from the front of the team.
She turned around and saw two horses falling down the cliff just like before, and Ye Tianwen had already pulled back the two men who were about to be shattered to pieces with one hand.
Uncle Qingmu frowned, glanced at the horse that Yin Xiu was still holding, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, dismount!"
There was a sound of shoes falling to the ground, and all the people on horseback jumped off their horses, fell to the ground, and stopped.
As for the other people, they also followed the instructions and put their hands into each other's belts or grabbed them on their shoulders, in case something unexpected happened to the other party.
Uncle Qingmu raised the fire and threw a piece of wood into the fire.
After it burned and emitted a faint smoke, Uncle Qingmu took it out and placed it on the ground.
The wood has been burned into several pieces, and Uncle Qingmu reassembled them according to a certain pattern and divided them into several piles.
During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there were also priests who used flames to roast tortoise shells and then looked at the cracks on the tortoise shells to predict good or bad luck.
The ashes left after burning the special piece of wood were probably the basis for Uncle Qingmu's divination.
Uncle Qingmu squatted on the ground and watched for a while, then raised his head and said to Ye Tianwen who was standing by: "It's a mountain ghost. We are being targeted by the mountain ghost."
Mountain ghosts are said to be spirits in the mountains. They appear and disappear. If they meet someone who goes into the mountains to cut firewood or collect medicine, they will often play tricks on them, causing them to encounter some minor troubles, and enjoy playing tricks on them.
Another theory is that mountain ghosts are actually the ghosts of people who died in the mountains. They are extremely violent and have been waiting for opportunities to harm people in the mountains, just to catch a substitute.
Judging from the situation just now, their group may have encountered the latter.
That is, those evil spirits who try to take other people's lives.
However, after hearing the appearance of the mountain ghost, Granny Lin started laughing.
"Old woman, are you happy that it's haunted?" Yin Xiu rolled her eyes.
"What do you know?"
Granny Lin smiled even more happily.
"Doesn't this just mean that we are in the right place? If a mountain is lifeless and you say there is elixir and fairy energy here, then I'm afraid you don't even believe it, right?
However, it is precisely because of the aura here that the mountain ghost was born! We were in the right place. ”
Of course Yin Xiu knew this saying, just like when the water is clear, there are no fish. Generally, the more spiritual energy there is, the more spirits and demons lurk.
Otherwise, why are so many blessed places and caves guarded by spiritual beasts? Naturally, attracted by the spiritual energy inside, the spirit beasts ran over and regarded it as their territory.
"It's trying to kill you, and you're still so happy?"
Yin Xiu held his hands together, obviously having no intention of taking action.
However, Mrs. Lin and Uncle Qingmu didn't think of asking Yin Xiu for help. If an outsider was needed here, wouldn't it look like they were too useless?
So between the two of them, one took out a drum covered with an unknown material, and the other also took out a flute made of unknown material.
One was sitting and playing the flute, while the other was beating the drum on his hands and dancing.
With the sound and dance, the atmosphere in the mountain forest also changed, and Yin Xiu felt goosebumps aroused on the back of her hands due to the cold.
They probably used Miao magic, which was quite similar to Liaodong shamanism, but there were obvious differences between the two.
As their movements became louder and louder, the entire forest seemed to begin to respond to them.
In front of Yin Xiu's eyes, the originally lush forest began to twist and turn into colorful lines, and it seemed like ripples on the colorful water. The colors were layered one on top of the other, and finally the colors were crowded together. They became lines of various colors, shaking, combining, and separating in front of him.
Boom!
After Mr. Aoki knocked hard on the drum, someone in the team screamed.
Yin Xiu looked there and saw many green figures appearing on both sides. It was a mountain ghost with only half-clothed clothes. (End of chapter)