Chapter 53 Immortals or Ghosts

Tiancheng Martial Arts Museum is also quite famous in the world. Now that the old lady in charge celebrates her 60th birthday, she naturally has to be lively and grand.

There was a lot of traffic outside the door of the martial arts hall, and the voices inside the door were boiling. The gray-haired housekeeper smiled at the door to receive the congratulatory people, while Xiao Tiancheng, dressed in a purple-blue robe, was an old mother who accompanied his birthday and personally entertained his relatives, brothers and other friends in the hall.

A group of people were greeting each other, and the famous boy at the door shouted again, "Master Liu of Qingtian in this county has arrived--"

Hearing the sound, Xiao Tiancheng smiled with several rich businessmen and immediately led his mother to the door to greet him.

"Lord Liu took time to come to the humble house, which simply made my small place shine a lot." He held his fists in his hands and saluted Liu County magistrate in civilian clothes. Xiao Tiancheng still had a polite and modest appearance, with a hypocritical smile on his white scholar's face.

"Master Xiao, congratulations, congratulations," he motioned to the master who followed him to send the gift box. The county magistrate Liu smiled and said, "The little gift is not respectful. I wish the old lady a blessing in the East China Sea and a long life than Nanshan."

"Lord Liu is very happy that he can come in person. As my son Tiancheng said, it simply makes our martial arts school shine." Xiao's mother usually gets close to a group of noble ladies. Naturally, she has seen this Liu County magistrate a lot. Hearing what he said, his well-maintained face was even more smiling. "Come on, why don't you show Lord Liu a seat and serve tea as soon as possible."

As soon as the words fell, two beautiful maidservants came out, blessed Liu County Lingfu, and obediently led him to the main table with her head down.

Shan Xiaowu, dressed as a little boy, happened to pass by with a tray in his hand. Seeing this, he couldn't help snorting and scolding in his heart that he didn't understand why. He gave the new dish to the waiting maidservant and swayed back to the kitchen in the backyard.

She is not a person who doesn't distinguish between right and wrong. Now most of the people at the table are innocent people. If she puts medicine in all the dishes just to poison a Xiao Tiancheng, not to mention that it will harm others. In case the poison is fast and the people of Xiao Tiancheng find out, they can't run away.

Even if she is lucky enough to escape, I'm afraid Chef Hua, who brought her with her, will not be spared.

Therefore, in order not to involve others, she has to think of other ways first.

This small five was absent-mindedly washing the vegetables and thought hard about how to completely walk away after the whole person. On the other side, Shan Baoqian and his party had been halfway. Because the emerald was his daughter, Hong Jiu suggested that they take a break on the road and let another big man with martial arts skills take the lead. They rode back to do everything, but the three of them chose a small forest to rest first.

"Brother Shan, you don't have to look at it anymore. Even if you look off your eyes, you have to wait for a day before you can see your sister." Hong Jiu found a shady place to sit down, untied the wine gourd around his waist and poured a few sips with a smile. "It's better to be a brother. Sit down and rest first, and then go after you are full of energy. Maybe it can be faster."

Shan Baoqian thought for a moment. Although he wanted to rush back immediately, he also knew that what Hong Jiu said was true, so he did not refuse much. He took the folding fan and tied the horse to the big tree beside him, leaving a distance so that he could eat the tender grass on the ground. As soon as he stretched out his hand, he took the wine gourd he handed over and looked up to the gourd. I took a few sips.

Feicui is a maidservant. Although his real master is not here, at least there is a master's brother. In the past few days, he naturally follows Shan Baoqian step by step. At this time, he wanted to pour water for him to drink, but when he turned around, he saw that he had received Hongjiu's wine gourd and thought of him. I didn't need to drink water for a while, so I untied the water bag and quietly found a place to sit and rest my legs to quench my thirst.

"Brother Shan, to tell you the truth, in fact, I have always had a question to ask you for my brother," Hong Jiu crossed his legs, leaned his back against the tree trunk, looked up at the leaves above his head, and suddenly said, "Isn't your sister really a foundation in martial arts?"

"Brother Hong, don't you suspect that She Mei has something to do with the death of those two people?"

Shan Baoqian withdrew his eyes from afar and turned his head to Hong Jiu. He raised his eyebrows slightly, and his narrow eyes were slightly surprised. "To be honest, the younger sister-in-law did learn martial arts without telling her parents, but it was all children who were playful. She never went to the martial arts school again. If you insist that she can do martial arts, it is only deeper than ordinary people. The girl's flower fist embroidered legs is better than the three-legged cat kung fu, but when it comes to killing," he paused slightly and said affirmatively, "I guarantee with my personal reputation that she doesn't have the courage and ability."

"I think so too, but it's too strange," Hong Jiu took a sip of yellow wine, and his thick eyebrows frowned. "I later looked for the bodies of the two brothers again. Although my face was blurred, it was not difficult to see that it was a fatal move. He flattened the human head with such a thick wooden stick at once. , this is a lot of manpower."

"Maybe the person who took action may have a deep blood grudge against the two brothers," Shan Baoqian squinted and said, "From the strength of strength alone, the woman should not have such magic power. It is likely to be a man who did it, and according to Brother Hong, if you want one move, you can beat the person's head and face. That person wants to come. It should also be quite tall."

"My brother quite agrees with this," Hong Jiu reluctantly shook the wine gourd, tightened the lid of the gourd, and hung it back on his waist. "Brother Shan, do you think that person may be your sister's old acquaintance? Or is he with your sister now?

"This..." Shan Baoqian frowned and hesitated before saying, "To tell you the truth, although Sister She can't do martial arts, she usually loves to run out. She also has three teachings and nine friends. It's really hard to say whether there is such a powerful person to help her."

Hong Jiu slapped his thigh and burst out laughing, "So I'm just saying, your girl is indeed a good seedling who runs the world. Her personality must be bold and unrestrained, so that she can have friends all over the world."

The corners of Shan Baoqian's eyes twitch. Can we think normally? From guessing murder suspects to how to make friends all over the world, how does this topic change?

He shook his head and was too lazy to continue to talk to Hong Jiu. He turned around and picked up a clean grass and sat down. He leaned on the trunk like Hong Jiu. He planned to buy time to raise enough energy to travel. Anyway, now the Yuanbao sister is safe in Jinling City. Anyway, she has always been familiar with that place. I think it should She won't suffer a loss. In addition, she has been tied up once. With her nature, she must not need his advice. She must be ten times more vigilant than before when she goes out in the future, and he doesn't have to rush to teach her a lesson.

Thinking about whether to take a nap, the innate sense of crisis suddenly opened, and Shan Baoqian jumped up almost at the same time as Hong Jiu.

The two looked at each other in silence. Hong Jiu took the lead in lying on the grass and leaning out to explore. Shan Baoqian made a gesture to the jadeite find a place to hide, and he jumped on the highest trunk of the tree and narrowed his eyes to investigate.

At noon, it was the time when the sun was the most poisonous. Even if Shan Baoqian and his party hid in the shade, they couldn't help sweating all over their bodies, not to mention the flowers and plants exposed to the sun.

But in this hot summer day when even the water will be evaporated and dried, there is a white fog like an egg floating half a foot high on the ground, gradually moving from far to near at a slow speed.

It's like a mountain spirit appeared. Where the white fog passed by, the flowers, plants and trees were stained with nail-sized beads of water, as if they had just been baptized by the drenching rain, completely glowed as flexible and fresh as before the sun rose in the morning.

Of course, this is not the most surprising thing for Baoqian and Hongjiu. What makes them most incredible is that there is a black figure wrapped in the middle of the fog ball, with a slender and tall figure, which looks like an adult man.

His face was covered by the white fog, and the shadow was not real. Instead, he wore a wide robe and big sleeves swayed in the wind. He could faintly see that the long black hair was not tied up, but casually scattered behind him. As he walked, he gently swung left and right. In the white fog, he danced enchantingly like life.

The white fog came not far in front of several people in the blink of an eye. Shan Baoqian stared at the person in the fog for a long time and couldn't help taking a breath. When he looked at it just now, he didn't pay attention to it. When he approached, he found that the man was completely untouched. The black shoes stepped on the grass and did not touch the tip of the grass at all. That's it. Stepping on the void, it is leisurely like walking in your own courtyard.

Light power?

Shan Baoqian frowned slightly and asked himself in his heart, and the surprise and shock in his heart could not be expressed in words.

But he has never heard of the light power that can not be borrowed. From the beginning, he also stared at the man and couldn't see half of the column incense time, and he actually maintained the posture of hanging in the air slowly. Step by step, he stepped on the void under his feet, and there was no need to borrow external force at all - is he really a mountain spirit?

It seemed that he noticed the gaze of the two people in the woods here. The man wrapped in the fog moved and seemed to turn his head. The mask covering his face was exposed to the sun, and the white metal texture reflected the sunlight, which was so dazzling that people dared not look directly.

The eyes like obsidian behind the mask were cold as if they could freeze people. At a glance, Shan Baoqian and Hong Jiu were stunned, and subconsciously carried out their whole body and were ready to resist his attack at any time.

This man's whole body is full of ghosts and dark dangers. Obviously, he is an untouchable master, and he doesn't know how high his martial arts is. With the two of them alone, it is still unknown whether they can stop him.

I don't know whether he was in a hurry or too lazy to deal with them. The man just looked at the place where Shan Baoqian and the two were hiding, but he didn't mean to fight with them.

Just turned his face back lazily, hid the mask behind the fog again, and continued to maintain a fairy-like posture and fly in the original direction in the air. He didn't even need to click on the ground to borrow power, as if he was born to float like this.

With his departure, Shan Baoqian and Hong Jiu breathed a sigh of relief. Although the man did not fight with them just now, the invisible pressure still made them unconsciously sweat, especially Hong Jiu. His whole face turned red. At this moment, the sweat on his face was still drop by drop. It keeps coming out.

"It's terrible. When did such a person appear in the world? I don't know if it's a ghost." He raised his hand to wipe off the sweat on his forehead. Hong Jiu looked at the direction of the man's far away with lingering fear and said, "It's terrible enough to walk out of thin air. I didn't expect that he would still use this move internally. He wanted to do martial arts. His cultivation must be extremely high. Fortunately, we don't have bad thoughts. Otherwise, if we offend him, I guess we don't know how to die.

Shan Baoqian's attention is a little different. He jumped down from the tree and landed lightly beside Hongjiu. The Sichuan character in his eyebrows has never been opened. "What's the matter with the white fog? Brother Hong, don't you know such a person?"

Hong Jiu shook his head, picked up the wine gourd and poured a few mouthfuls to shock himself. Then he said, "I wish I were someone, at least I could have a relationship."

"Brother Hong, have you ever heard of Xiaoyao Island?" Shan Baoqian narrowed his eyes and his mind was running at a high speed. The man was also wearing a mask. Maybe it was time to break from this point. "It is said that everyone on Xiaoyao Island needs to cover their appearance with a mask when they go out. The island owner wears a ghost face all year round, so even now, no one knows his true appearance. Do you think this person could have been sent from Xiaoyao Island?

Hong Jiu pondered, "Listen to what you said, it is very possible that Xiaoyao Island is isolated from the world and rarely communicates with people. If someone practices such mysterious martial arts, it will also make a good explanation."

"If I say that the man just now, it is very likely that the owner of Xiaoyao Island will not be separated. Can Brother Hong be trusted?"

"..." Hong Jiu was sterled for a long time, and then suddenly stood up and patted Shan Baoqian on the shoulder vigorously. "Oh, Brother Shan, you are really smart enough!"

The owner of Xiaoyao Island suddenly walked on the rivers and lakes recently. This is something that everyone in the rivers and lakes knows. Why did he forget it when he got here?

"Emerald," raised his hand and made a calm gesture to Hong Jiu. Shan Baoqian called in a low voice, "Come out."

The jadeite poked its head out of the bushes and saw that there was no danger, so he immediately patted the weeds on his clothes and quickly ran out, "Second Young Master."

"Did you see the situation just now? Tell me the truth, do you have any impression of the man wearing the mask inside?

"No." The jadeite shook her head very simply.

"Do you really don't know?" Shan Baoqian frowned, and his narrow eyes stared at the emerald, not letting go of the expression on her face at all.

"The second young master... I really don't know who wears a mask," seeing Shan Bao stared at her fiercely, Feicui shrank her neck and said aggrievedly, "I can't see clearly at all."

She was far away, and she didn't have martial arts skills. Naturally, her eyesight was not as good as Shan Baoqian. When she hid behind the bushes, she just faintly saw a group of white things flying by. The second young master insisted that she knew someone wearing a mask. He didn't mean to make her. Is it?

"..." Shan Baoqian sighed with a long sigh of frustration. How could he forget that people who have no skills at such a long distance can't see clearly?

"Well, I'm going to ask you now. Please give me a good answer. Is the person you met with the young lady last time in Fenglai Restaurant also wearing a silver mask and a black robe with gold thread?"

"This..." Jadeite is a little embarrassed. After all, she jumped out of the window with the young lady at that time. The young lady had already told her that she could not talk nonsense. At this time, she was going to answer the second young master. Doesn't that show that she and the young lady did go to the restaurant for dinner and jumped out of the window?

"Jade," Seeing her hesitation, Shan Baoqian narrowed his beautiful phoenix eyes, raised his eyebrows slightly, and whispered, "If you tell the truth, the second young master will help you pay for yesterday's meal."

"Really? Second young master, don't lie to me."

Hearing Shan Baoqian's words, Feicui really began to shake, one or two or twenty cents, which is two-thirds of her monthly silver. If the second young master is willing to revoke this money, she will not be a loss, is she?

"I won't lie to you." Shan Baoqian nodded and promised, "I'm a good boy and I never lie." "Brother Hong is here. He can testify for me."

With his guarantee, Feicui was relieved and nodded, "You're right, the second young master. The beautiful young man we met in the restaurant is indeed dressed as the second young master said. The jadeite can't be wrong."

"That's true..."

Is it the same person?

If he guesses correctly, that person should be inseparable.

It's just that how can a dangerous person as moody as him have contact with his ingot sister? And is it still a calm sitting at the same table to eat, drink and chat quietly?

"Second young master, Feicui has finished talking about the meal money..." Looking at his finger, Feicui looked at Shan Baoqian with a hopeful face.

"Of course, the meal money is a write-off."

"But," before the emerald cheered and celebrated, Shan Bao suddenly raised the corners of his mouth in his dry eyes. He smiled at her very insidious back finger tied to the mount on the trunk of the tree. He calmly added, "The money for buying this horse is still on your account. Similarly, I will deduct it from your monthly money next month. Don't worry. "

"...what?"

Hearing this, Jade's face turned green like spinach in an instant, and a mouthful of old blood stem almost choked herself to death in her throat.

Don't worry... How dare you reassure her? Who can rest assured? Damn it, you don't have such a cheating father. Oh, second young master, Feicui hates you so much!