Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 727 This is the way to live up to my great demon king’s status
The city of Xiangfan has been very lively in recent days. It's not because the new emperor has ascended the throne and the whole country is celebrating, nor is it because the fairy-like Princess Jing'an is about to celebrate her 32nd birthday. Prince Jing'an, who has always doted on her, is going to dance with the people of the city and have fun together. It's because the news that nearly half of the Qingzhou navy has been killed can no longer be covered up. It's like this unprecedented winter cold wave, which blew from north to south, across the Laoshan Island, across the 800-li Pinghu Lake, into Qinghu City, and to the heart of Qingzhou, Xiangfan, the gateway to Western Chu.

There was a naval battle on Chunshen Lake. Two Qinglong ships, four Huanglong ships, dozens of Chima ships and Baiyao ships were burned to ashes. Less than 40% of the 3,000 naval officers and soldiers survived. After leaving the battlefield on the south side of Laoshan Island, the eagle and the fire unicorn headed southeast and set fire to the six-toothed giant ship and two Huanglong ships under maintenance at the naval dock outside Qinghu City. The north wind ignited the dock, and the naval battle supplies were burned. Taking advantage of the autumn dryness, a fire was started in the nearby forest farm, burning down the Zhenwu Temple across the lake from the Jingping Guanyin on Laoshan Island, and almost affecting Qinghu City.

The Liuya giant ship is six stories high and has a sail length of more than ten meters, which can accommodate three thousand officers and soldiers. Unlike the Qinglong building ship, which is wrapped with iron sheets in key parts, the left and right sides of the ship and the layered parapets are surrounded by iron tools and densely covered with round nails. There are rackets and catapults on the deck, and battle grids, stones and iron buckets on the roof. As the flagship of the Qingzhou navy, it is an out-and-out water fortress. There are only two ships in Liyang, one in the East China Sea and the other in Chunshen Lake.

Prince Jing'an wanted the Qingzhou navy to blockade the Laoshan Island, not to attack it. No matter how many ideas Zhao Xun had, he did not dare to attack the Liuya giant ship. In the end, this behemoth that dominated the Chunshen Lake broke down without firing a single shot, becoming a century-long shame for the Qingzhou navy.

Wang Linquan betrayed Prince Jing'an, acknowledged Lin Qing as his master, and personally sent his most beloved youngest daughter to his bed. He raised the flag of independence on Laoshan Island and threatened to rebel. The people of Qingzhou treated it as a joke at first and called him old and confused. After repeatedly confirming the authenticity of the above news, the person who told the joke and the person who listened to the joke found out that they were the joke. Lin Qing really had the strength to occupy the island and become king. With one eagle and one dog, he destroyed half of the Qingzhou navy. His fighting power was terribly strong. The people in the city were in panic and rumors were everywhere.

A plump woman carrying a bamboo basket and holding her granddaughter's hand stood in front of a mountain product stall near the north gate. She looked at the owner, who was wearing a jute rope and tied his sleeves tightly around his grey robe. He looked very rustic but very smart and said, "It's already so late. Why are you still setting up the stall? Didn't you hear what they said? That murderous demon has left Qinghu City. Calculating the date, he should be in Xiangfan today."

The owner of the mountain goods stall subconsciously glanced at the shops on the street and saw some people closing their signs and a waiter sitting on the steps at the door watching. It was said that Mingyanglou, which had a strong background and a constant stream of diners, also closed its doors and covered the windows upstairs and downstairs to avoid being convicted for the foul mouths of customers, like the Sandonglou in Lingzhou City, which was burned down to become a memorial hall for the Jianghu massacre. Lin Qingren was not in Lingzhou, and he was still slapping King Beiliang in the face every day.

"The city gate is open, and there aren't many soldiers patrolling the walls. There's no sign of a war. Auntie, don't scare me."

He touched the heavy purse in his chest. There were fewer people and stalls on the street today, but his income was 20% more than the previous few days. He remembered that those scholars in blue and white clothes used the phrase "wealth and honor are sought in danger" when discussing Wang Linquan. So, should what he was doing now also be based on this phrase that sounded so reasonable?

"Auntie, you are not trying to scare me away so that you can occupy my stall, right?"

The woman's face was red with anger. She pulled her little granddaughter, whose mouth was covered with maltose, forward and argued, "I'm occupying your stall? What are you selling? My child?"

"Don't be impatient, old lady. I was just joking." The owner of the mountain goods stall was a little embarrassed.

The woman calmed down and pointed at the bright and attractive green-headed mushrooms in the southeast of the stall and said, "How about this, it's cheaper. I'll buy all of them for you so that you can go home earlier and don't let that big devil take advantage of you. Ten cents, how about that?"

The boss was stunned. He didn't expect that she was waiting for him here. He pointed out that his wife went up the mountain the day before yesterday and accidentally picked green head mushrooms when she slipped down the hillside to avoid poisonous snakes. He said, "Auntie, look at these mushrooms. They are thick and even in size. I have rubbed the dirt off the roots. You want to take them away for ten cents? That's too little. It should be at least twenty cents."

"Young man, there's a saying that goes, no matter how much money you make, you have to live to spend it. Hurry up and pack up and go home. If you don't leave now, when that big devil rushes into the city, you won't have a chance to leave. Listen to me, twelve cents, that's the most."

Crunchy...

A luxury car with a white horse, yellow ribbons on the four corners and copper and silver animal heads on both ends of the shaft drove into the main road through the north gate. Chu Pingsheng lifted the Suzhou embroidered curtains and looked at the woman bargaining with the owner of the mountain goods stall in silence. Green Ant covered his mouth and laughed across from him.

"Sir, they say a bad reputation can stop a child from crying at night. Yours is even better, and you can bargain for it."

Chu Pingsheng did not respond to her teasing and looked behind. There were shouting sounds coming from another ordinary carriage with a cotton curtain, and Zhao Fengya's voice was also shouting, "You're pressing on my legs." Old Xu looked back frequently, but it was not convenient for him to lift the door curtain to check. After a moment, the shouting stopped and the door curtain wrinkled. Princess Li Yang, with disheveled hair, half of her head was exposed. She took a breath and cried out in pain. Her hair on the back of her head was pulled back.

"Lin Xiao! The Master asked you to treat her like a dog, but he didn't ask you to treat me like a dog too!"

Huanggua saw the situation in the other carriage from the back window and was glad that she didn't sit there. After getting off the boat, Lin Xiao stuck to his cousin, who had said more words in the past ten years than he had in the past few days, and asked him to teach him how to carve iron flowers. Tanhualang was annoyed, so he asked her to tease Xu Weixiong and play whatever she wanted, as long as she didn't behave like a human being. He also bought her a carriage. Zhao Fengya was worried about being punished for doing something wrong in the luxury car, so she volunteered to go over and take care of the little girl who showed her true feelings at the moment of life and death. After a few times, it became like this.

Wang Chudong, wearing a white dress, huddled in the corner of the carriage, with her legs bent and her knees hugged, like a mute. After the naval battle, she asked to return to Laoshan Island, but Chu Pingsheng refused. After cursing her many times, Lu Yi took her to the bottom cabin, where she met Xu Weixiong, the second princess of the Xu family, who was tied to a pillar. Lu Yi threatened her that if she was not satisfied, he would make her stay with Xu Weixiong. He also told her about the fate of Xu Fengnian's eldest maid Hongshu and the second maid Qingniao. Only then did she realize who she had provoked.

She was a talented woman, and Xu Weixiong was also a talented woman. Lin Qing could humiliate Xu Weixiong in this way, and he could also humiliate her in this way. Since then, she became obedient, eating when she was asked to eat, drinking water when she was asked to drink water, and sleeping when she was asked to sleep, like an obedient walking corpse.

Chu Pingsheng stretched his right hand out of the window and clenched it in the middle. The crumpled piece of letter paper burst into flames and turned into fine ashes, which were blown away by the wind brought by the carriage.

Cucumber said, "Sir, don't you want to go back and take a look?"

Wang Chudong, who had buried her face between her knees, raised her head with an expectant look in her eyes. The master and servant did not discuss the contents of the letter in secret. Green Ant, Huanggua and she all knew that the letter came from Laoshan Island. It was written by Wang Linquan, saying that the women of the Lin family heard that Lin Qing had destroyed 30% of the Qingzhou navy in one battle, and the eldest lady was so ashamed that she took the lead in hanging herself. The only cousin Nanhua, who did not consider herself a member of the Lin family, survived.

"What are you looking at? It's better to die. It's clean and clean." Chu Pingsheng never regarded Feng Quyan and her group of women as his elders. If he was on Laoshan Island and knew that they wanted to commit suicide to show their loyalty to the emperor and serve the country, he would probably ask Wang Linquan to pull a few pieces of white silk over to send those stubborn people off.

Green Ant said: "How do I write a reply to Wang Linquan?"

"No need to reply, he knows what to do."

The light in Wang Chudong's eyes dimmed. She thought that Feng Quyan committed suicide and Lin Qing would return to Laoshan Island, so she would have a chance to escape from the fire pit. Unexpectedly, Lin Qing didn't care about the life and death of the women of the Lin family at all. He was indeed a heartless and ungrateful devil.

The carriage became quiet, so quiet that it was depressing, as if the air had weight and one had to breathe hard.

Huanggua made small talk: "Prince Jing'an Zhao Heng knew that the young master had arrived in Xiangfan in the past two days, but he did not strengthen the city defenses or strictly check the passing vehicles. Isn't he afraid?"

The green ant knocked her on the head, only to be met with a big roll of the eyes in return.

"Is there anyone in Xiangfan who doesn't know that in addition to the Fire Kirin, the young master has also tamed a celestial eagle? With the Flying General here, what difference does it make whether the city defenses are reinforced or not, and whether the number of manpower is increased or not? If the young master wants to enter the city secretly, he will never let Zhao Heng know. If the young master wants to enter the city openly, just look at this luxury car of Prince Beiliang. Do you think the city gate officer can't recognize it?"

"You are still smart."

Speaking of Prince Beiliang, Huanggua recalled what the coachman Lao Xu said yesterday: "Sir, Lao Xu said that the one-armed sword god Li Chungang who had been following us in Xu Fengnian's convoy has disappeared. Do you think he will join forces with Prince Jing'an to ambush us?"

"Li Chungang went to the Wu family sword tomb."

Lu Yi was shocked. Her young master had never left her sight in the past few days. He also asked her to sleep with him at night. Xu Fengnian's motorcade followed slowly two miles away. How did he know Li Chungang's whereabouts?
"Wu Family Sword Tomb? What was he doing there?"

Chu Pingsheng said: "The princess of the fallen country has already worshipped Li Chungang as her master. She has a special talent and a strange way of training. The Wu family sword tomb is said to have buried 160,000 swords, which is very helpful for her realm improvement. Of course, Lao Gou also wants to take the opportunity to enter the sword tomb again to see if he can restore his state of mind and return to the immortal state on land."

Huanggua was shocked and asked, "Li Chungang dares to go to the sword tomb?"

She and Green Ant had heard from their master that there were countless famous swords in the Wu Family Sword Tomb. Many famous swordsmen coveted the precious swords in the tomb and broke into the sword tomb. After being defeated, they lost their freedom and became sword slaves of the Wu Family Sword Tomb. When Li Chungang was young, he broke into the Wu Family Sword Tomb and not only retreated safely, but also took away the Wooden Horse Ox, one of the four strongest swords in the Wu Family Sword Tomb. Later, it was broken in a duel with Wang Xianzhi of Wudi City.

Later, Li Chungang exchanged an arm with Jian Jiuhuang's master Sui Xiegu, and his realm fell from a terrestrial immortal to a celestial being, and he had not made any progress for more than ten years. Now, if he went to the Wu family sword tomb, could the Wu family's ancestor, Xu Fengnian's great-grandfather, spare Li Chungang?
Chu Pingsheng didn't say anything. Green Ant gave Cucumber a cold look. The latter blinked once, twice, and three times, then clapped his hands vigorously, scaring the talented woman from the Wang family so much that she trembled violently and covered her lower abdomen.

"They now have a common enemy."

Huanggua looked steadily at his master who had never found a chance to offer himself to him. Xu Fengnian's aunt Zhao Yutai was a sword servant of the Wu Family Sword Tomb. She was killed by the third place winner, and the Daliang Dragon Bird became a trophy. The current sword champion of the Wu Family Sword Tomb, Wu Liuding, came to Chunshen Lake to seek revenge, but was stabbed to death by the third place winner with a headless spear and hung on the mast of Xu Fengnian's car. This humiliation was far greater than when Li Chungang entered the sword tomb to steal the wooden horse and ox.

Now that the Xu family and the Wu family have a common enemy, Wu Jian will definitely not make things difficult for Li Chungang and Jiang Ni who came to return the corpse at this time.

Green Ant said, "I don't understand. If Li Chungang leaves, who will protect Xu Fengnian? Just Li Yufu and Ning Emei? Aren't they a little weak?"

"Li Yufu is not weak. After being trained by Li Chungang, he has now reached the Zhixuan realm. He is a Wudang disciple who entered the Dao with the sword. He is much stronger than Yu Xingrui and his group, but a little weaker than Wang Xiaoping. And Cao Changqing is here."

"Cao Changqing? He is a remnant of Western Chu. How could he possibly protect Xu Fengnian?"

Huanggua finally had the opportunity to show off his intelligence in front of Green Ant, and said with great joy: "Jiang Ni ordered him to protect Xu Fengnian, does he dare to say no? He is the super lickspittle of Queen Xi Chu."

This word was used by her master to tease Cao Changqing when he was leaving Wudang Mountain. She remembered it in her heart. Sometimes she would think that she was also a licker who always hoped to warm the bed for her master one day. But then she thought again, she was not the third best in the world. Isn't it normal for a maid to lick her master and savior? Xu Weixiong, the most talented woman in the world, didn't have the chance to lick her master in this way.

(End of this chapter)