Yujing is the capital of the empire.
Because when the city was established here, a qigong master dug out twelve towering jade pillars from the ground, hence the name.
As the capital of a huge empire, although it was invaded and plundered by foreign enemies, from the outside it still looked great and unshakable.
The turmoil of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces ended just a week ago, but there is no longer any doubt of war here. The people live and move around as usual, as if the war happened a hundred years ago.
Security has been tightened at the city gate in the past few days. Several officers who seemed to be of high rank were standing at the door, staring keenly at everyone who passed under the city gate.
Even the carriages of passing carriages and the straw on the oxcarts must be opened and carefully inspected to prevent anyone from hiding in the straw piles or carriage plywood.
Those weird tricks have become nothing new in thousands of years of history and legends, like the hat trick that has been criticized so badly that it only makes people yawn after seeing it for a long time. There is nothing new at all. Other than that, Feel.
However, the people have long been accustomed to this kind of battle. In Yujing, if a brick is dropped casually, it will not knock down a group of high-ranking officials.
Their lives continue in this tense atmosphere, just like before.
Yujing, this ancient and great city, is still immersed in its long-awaited dream.
In the past few days, the city gate guard Ruan Jinwu has picked out many dangerous people from the crowd.
As mentioned before, no matter how weird the tricks or tricks are, they will only become boring and clumsy after being played thousands of times.
Even though Ruan Jinwu had never seen some tricks to sneak through the city gates in disguise, these so-called clever tricks were told by storytellers. Even the children on the roadside could tell a few tricks and methods.
In the past few days, he has uncovered gangsters who worked as farmers, White Lotus sect who pretended to be fortune tellers, and smeared criminals who pretended to be actors and mingled with the troupe.
Speaking of the imperial prisoner dressed as an actor, Ruan Jinwu still wants to laugh when he thinks about it.
Because that guy is so stupid. His face is obviously painted white, as if he has smeared a handful of wall dust on his face, but his hands are dark and rough. With such hands stretched out from the costume, you must not touch them. The child was frightened and cried?
When Ruan Jinwu was laughing, the officers and soldiers under his command hurriedly came forward and reported: "Sir, something is not right with a group of people and we stopped them."
"Something's wrong?"
Ruan Jinwu rubbed the corners of his eyes, no one could escape his piercing eyes.
He followed the officers and soldiers to the bottom of the city gate and saw three men and one woman being stopped, all riding on horseback.
The leader was arrogant, short, skinny, and had a wretched face.
He was wearing an elegant mandarin jacket with a gold watch chain pinned to it, as if he was afraid that others would not see it. Half of the dial of the dazzling gold pocket watch in his breast pocket was exposed.
He also wears several rings on his fingers, red, green and gold, sparkling, which makes people understand why he wears sunglasses, because he is afraid that he will be caught when he raises his hand.
"Dismount."
Ruan Jinwu stepped forward and signaled Liu Banxian to dismount.
He has seen many dignitaries and wealthy people, and he knows that these people are no different from ordinary people, so he is not afraid of these "big people" who look very impressive like ordinary people.
Liu Banxian ignored his instructions, but turned to Yin Xiu unhappily: "How many years has it been since I came back?"
"Master Liu, seven years."
"That's no wonder."
Liu Banxian opened the fan with a snap. What was painted on it was a blue-water unicorn. Each scale of the unicorn was embedded with gold powder, and its eyes were painted with emeralds, shining in the sunlight.
"What's the wonder?" Ruan Jinwu said with a sullen face.
"No wonder you don't know your Master Liu!"
Liu Banxian almost poked his fan into Ruan Jinwu's eyes.
Ruan Jinwu was neither humble nor arrogant, he just said to Liu Banxian, "I've never heard of you."
"It doesn't matter!"
Liu Banxian took the fan back again and touched his nose, "Master Liu doesn't know you either. It's even. Come to my house for a cup of tea when you have time, sir."
Liu Banxian took the horse and was about to leave, but Ruan Jinwu still stopped them.
"Any more questions?" Liu Banxian frowned.
"According to regulations, inspection is required."
"Check what!?"
Liu Banxian spread his hands and said, "We each brought nothing except a package. Is there anything to check?"
"Didn't you already bring the package?"
"Ha!"
Liu Banxian sneered, "You saw us carrying the package so openly, do you think there is any need for inspection, or are we afraid of your inspection?"
Ruan Jinwu said loudly: "If you are not afraid of my inspection, why don't you get off your horse and accept the inspection?"
Liu Banxian also raised his voice, "Even if you were afraid of checking, would you still be here and not be afraid of you checking?"
"Then if you are not afraid of my inspection, why are you still afraid of my inspection!"
"Since I..."
Seeing how long Liu Banxian and the officer would continue to argue, Ren Qi interrupted him and said mysteriously: "Master Liu, your banquet with Old Man Jinhuan is almost over. If you miss it, you won't be able to talk to him." The old man explained.”
Upon hearing this name, the expressions of Ruan Jinwu and all the soldiers changed slightly.
The Golden Ring Old Man is actually the nickname of Dongmen Baylor.
Because Dongmen Baylor offended the emperor, he was not called a prince like others, but became Baylor for the rest of his life.
However, he didn't care very much and just played with his antique gadgets all day long, so he named himself the Old Man with the Golden Ring.
He is like a hermit living in seclusion in Yujing, and like those legendary ghosts that only appear at night. Although he is a prince, few people can remember his name.
He is the kind of person who often starts his story with "Have you heard of it?" and then others almost scratch their scalps before they even think of it.
Precisely because he is little known but quite legendary, when Ren Qi mentioned this name, everyone never thought that he was joking for nothing. Instead, they thought that Mr. Liu was indeed a wealthy man.
Because Old Man Jinhuan also holds several banquets every month, and the guests invited are all famous people.
"How about we let them pass..."
A soldier asked Ruan Jinwu in a low voice.
However, Ruan Jinwu is not a person who would turn a blind eye. He has no room for sand in his eyes, and he will never look at a person.
Of course he let Liu Banxian go, but he became suspicious of Ren Qi.
"Nine feet tall, with six swords on your back, a northerner, you look like a high-ranking criminal on the wanted list, Ren Qi."
Liu Banxian immediately felt a tightness behind his back, and Ma Xiaoyu and Yin Xiu also put their hands into the skirts.
"You touched it wrong." Ma Xiaoyu whispered.
"Really?"
Yin Xiu rubbed her hand and said, "Then do I want to take it back?"
Ma Xiaoyu glanced at him and said, "If a person takes his hand back from a girl's skirt in public and lets others see it, wouldn't it make the girl very embarrassed?"
"Then I understand."
So Yin Xiu continued to put her hand. Each of them was making moves and preparations, but Ren Qi, the protagonist at the center of the storm, was very calm and calm.
Not only did he not defend himself, but he asked Ruan Jinwu: "What about you? What would you do if you were wanted?"
"I will not be wanted."
"I mean, what if, what if you were wanted? Would you stay at home, or run away?"
"Of course I'm running away! Why don't you run away and wait to die?"
A soldier immediately rushed to answer, earning Ruan Jinwu's glare.
"Even if you can escape, so what?"
"As long as you know how to run away. Since even you know how to run away, why should Ren Qi come to Yujing? And if I were Ren Qi, I should have run away long ago."
Ruan Jinwu felt that this was reasonable, but he was never willing to admit his mistake, so he held on to Ren Qi's outfit.
"But I know that the traitor Ren Qi is a man who carries six swords, and you also carry six swords."
"How many legs does your dad have?"
Ruan Jinwu stretched out two fingers in a daze.
Ren Qi hesitated to speak, but finally turned into a cold smile.
Ruan Jinwu's face turned from white to red, and he was about to explode when someone finally came to the rescue.
"Sir, according to my subordinates' opinion, he is indeed not like Ren Qi. After all, Ren Qi is really a person who is very good at running away and avoiding. People like him can't even hide in time, so how can he run away on his own? Come to die?”
Of course what he said made sense, so even if Ruan Jinwu was very angry, he could only nod in agreement.
You know, he can still be reasonable here, but in the palace of Yujing, being reasonable is a very luxurious thing.
Therefore, he waved his hand and motioned for Yin Xiu and his party to hurry over.
After all, as common sense would predict, how could a wanted criminal walk through the city gates without any disguise?
Such people are either fools or lunatics.
After Ruan Jinwu passed by the group of people, he immediately took a few steps and pulled out a gangster disguised as a woman from the crowd. He stamped his face on the ground and refused to let go of his feet despite the pain.
"Don't look back."
Ren Qi suppressed Liu Banxian's curiosity.
Liu Banxian wiped the sweat from his head and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Haha, I'm scared to death. Brother Yin, if ten people listen to your idea, eleven will scold you for being crazy."
He still couldn't help stroking his chest, "Where can someone who is wanted walk in like this?"
"But didn't you just have a fluent conversation with him?"
"That's because uncle is quick-witted! If it had been someone else, he would have been arrested and whipped right now."
As he spoke, Liu Banxian couldn't help but start to admire himself, "I'm really an amazing and witty person. Even in other halls and Taoist platforms, he could be called a genius just now if he had half the reaction I did."< br>
"Yes yes yes."
Yin Xiu nodded to deal with him and asked Ren Qi: "Where do we live?"
Ren Qi had already made a plan.
Nowadays, if you stay in an inn, it will be crowded and crowded.
You must know that restaurants and inns are places where news circulates. Wherever many heroes stay this afternoon, an invitation will be sent to the room to invite them to a banquet in the evening.
On the one hand, the local powerful wanted to show their respect for this hero, but on the other hand, they were also vaguely warning the other party that whatever they did was done under the eyes of others and could not be covered up.
Therefore, you can't stay in hotels and restaurants now, lest anyone notice you.
There is only one suitable location left in the city - the Ren family mansion.
"The Ren family mansion?"
Not to mention Liu Banxian breaking out in a cold sweat, even Yin Xiu looked weird.
"What, what's the problem?"
Ren Qi said coldly: "When I was still in Yujing, that place was already quieter than a haunted house. Not even the rats and cockroaches went there."
"Is the Ren family mansion infested with zombies?" Liu Banxian asked cautiously.
"Do you think everyone named Ren will become a zombie?"
Ren Qi gave him a hard look, "It's not my house where two massacres occurred."
When he said this, his expression was calm, as if the tragedy that affected his family for the rest of his life had nothing to do with him.
"That's my grandfather's house. People here call him Mr. Ren, so that house is also called Taigong Mansion.
But because a series of unlucky things happened later, people nearby regarded it as a haunted house, so they only called it the Ren Family Mansion. ”
"So, this is a vacant house?" Liu Banxian thought thoughtfully.
"It can't be called an empty house. Anyway, it's fully furnished. Even when the family was separated, my father and several uncles didn't dare to go and take a piece of it, for fear of being contaminated with bad luck.
Later, I heard that the Buddhist monks from Yujing Village had visited it several times, but they all died violently. Since then, even the families living near the house have moved away one after another.
So I think it should be safe there and enough for us to rest. ”
Yin Xiu didn't know why, but the word "Death Zone" came to mind.
But if it is true as Ren Qi said, then the Ren family mansion is indeed the most suitable place for them.
So they followed the many twists and turns, from the bustling urban area to the almost deserted and run-down area.
The Ren family mansion appears complete and solemn among these dilapidated buildings.
Liu Banxian adjusted his sunglasses and said, "Oh, ten evil positions."
Yin Xiu was curious, "I have only heard of the three evil positions. What are the ten evil positions?"
"It's similar to the Three Evil Positions, but there are seven more things."
Liu Banxian explained: "Generally speaking, if a house has bad feng shui and is in conflict with the Tai Sui and the Three Evils, it means that it has committed the evil of robbery, disaster and year.
Usually in this kind of house, the yin people are restless and the yin people are restless. If all ten evil spirits gather here, it will be even more extraordinary. Am I right, brother master? ”
Ren Qi nodded, feeling no nostalgia for the house in front of him where he spent his precious childhood.
"My father married six wives here, and five of them died."
"That's really unfortunate."
Liu Banxian clicked his tongue and said: "The remaining wife must have a very tough life and can withstand this situation. According to the photo book, things must be reversed at their extremes, and the yin pole produces yang. The children she gives birth to must be good people."
Ren Qi glanced at him and said, "That woman is my mother."
"I tore up the photo book when I got back." (End of Chapter)