My book friend Long Aotian

Chapter 94: Bride Robbery! ?
Cuitingxuan is a house in Baihua Valley used to entertain female guests.

Since yesterday, a person from Xuanyuan Sect has moved in. He is the person in charge of the Lin County branch, Wen Jing Sanren.

This is a Taoist nun. The heads of the Linxian branch of Xuanyuan Sect and Cao Gang are all women. After all, both branches were built because of Baihua Valley, and female heads are more convenient for communication.

Only the Lingyu Sect had special intentions, so they sent a strong man.

Wen Jing Sanren is about forty years old. Taoists are good at practicing meditation and have the secrets to maintain their youth, so they look dignified, calm and graceful. Xuanyuan Sect specially selected Taoist nuns with good mental cultivation and beautiful appearance, so as to avoid choosing an ugly one, who would feel angry, jealous and ugly when seeing the various beauties of Baihua Valley, which would be ugly instead.

She paced in the room. There was a table in the room, and three nuns were sitting at the table, two of them sitting opposite each other, and one sitting next to them. On the table was a strange device with mysterious shape and carved inscriptions. There was a Tai Chi diagram in the center, and metal rods extended on both sides and connected to balls. The three of them sat solemnly.

Wen Jing San Ren stopped and asked, "Is the translation done?"

The female cultivator sitting next to the instrument stood up and handed over the paper in her hand respectfully: "Please take a look."

There was a short paragraph written on the paper, which was exactly what Sanren had just said, talking about the upcoming arrival of the Grand Minister of Agriculture. Below it was a longer string of symbols. All the human words containing information were translated into symbols composed of yin and yang lines. Wen Jing Sanren nodded with satisfaction and said, "Send the message."

So, the Taoist nun at the back of the instrument reached out and pressed the yin and yang poles on the left and right sides of the instrument.

Silently practice the fundamental techniques of Xuanyuan Sect and the Five Thunders Heavenly Heart Orthodox Method.

The ear-piercing sound of thunder and lightning penetrated the instrument, making a rumbling sound. The Taoist nun sitting on the side took back the paper, checked the instructions, and asked her companion sitting opposite the instrument to rotate the Tai Chi diagram, and the yin and yang poles rotated back and forth, turning the injected thunder magic into invisible ripples, spreading to the clear sky.

Twenty miles away, in a side room of the official road post station, a Xuanyuan Sect postman sat upright and quickly took his position, watching the Tai Chi diagram spinning and flashing, spitting out rows of Yin and Yang runes. Until the information was conveyed and proofread, he and his partner would activate the Yin and Yang poles again to send the information again.

The distance of a single telegram is limited and the cost is high, but with the help of Da Qi's huge post station network and the information hubs established in various places of Xuanyuan Sect, important news can reach every corner of the country at the fastest speed.

This was one of the results of the Xuanyuan Sect's bloody civil war and the Taoist school's full dominance decades ago.

The so-called Taoism of investigating things and Xuanyuan orthodoxy is exactly this.

After the Taoist school swept away the Natural School and took control of Taoism, the Xuanyuan Sect determined the thunder and lightning methods as the only orthodox methods and discarded all other methods. Now, the results have been continuously emerging.

Information is transmitted like a relay, every twenty miles, one message at a time, to distant places.

Until the headquarters of all Taoist sects in the world and the mountain gate of Xuanyuan Sect.

The Zixiao Palace is located at the top of the Xianyan Rock on Taiqing Mountain. It is the Daozi Mountain Field, overlooking Yuanzhou. It is high above the sky and is located between the Wandie Cloud Mountains. It is known as the City in the Clouds.

Due to the topography and terrain, this place is surrounded by thunder all year round, and the sound of thunder never stops. From time to time, there will be huge flashes of thunder that split the sky and earth, and are guided by the Yuji Lightning Pillar, channeling the surging power of heaven and earth into the thunder pool.

"See? It's lit! It's lit!"

In a room in the side hall, the windows were closed and it was pitch black. In the darkness, someone held two sharpened charcoal sticks together, and bright electric sparks burst out.

Soon he separated the two carbon rods slightly, and the shining arc light continued to shine and jump between the tips of the two poles, as bright as candlelight, dispelling the darkness.

The light reflected the faces of both people.

A man with black hair and short beard, with a bright light in his eyes, he is the next headmaster of Xuanyuan Sect and the leader of the Dou Department. The Emperor of Qi conferred him the title of Qingxu Tongwei Xianhua Zhenjun, the prime minister of Lintai, and the lord of Jiutian Yingyuan Leihua Palace, Zhang Xuanhong.

The other one has short white hair and a childlike face. He is Zheng Zhiwei, the leader of Xuanyuan Sect, a prince of the world.

These two people are of noble status and extremely powerful, but at this moment, their happiness is extremely simple.

“Junshi, look at this!” Daozi shook the carbon rod in his hand, and the Five Thunder Method was activated, and a stable arc of light leaped into the air. “It’s not that the electric dragon pierced the air, but that the carbon rods collided, and the thunder method released heat when it encountered resistance, scattering countless tiny carbon ashes into the air and forming an electric bridge, so…”

Zhang Xuanhong's martial arts skills overwhelmed Xuanyuan, and his eyesight was so strong that he could see three thousand insects in the water. He concentrated and looked carefully, and there were indeed tiny fragments floating like steam in the arc of light. He exclaimed: "Master's magical power can create all things."

Zheng Zhiwei sighed and played with the electric arc: "Now it's just a candle that doesn't need to be ignited. I have to continue to use thunder magic to transfer energy. If I want to use it further, there is a trick I haven't figured out yet..."

He shook his head and put down the carbon rod. The arc went out and darkness fell.

The Taoist flicked his sleeves, and the door and window of the room opened, letting in light. The Taoist priest who had already walked to the door was stunned for a moment, and then came in respectfully: "Urgent news from Lin County."

Zheng Zhiwei took the translated telegram, asked the Taoist boy to leave, took a look at it, and said to Zhang Xuanhong: "Nong Jincao has already arrived in Lin County. The Lingyu Sect is determined to win. In addition, Emperor Ning was conferred the title of Marquis. This Li Bailong is really proud. I remember that it was him who almost became your apprentice back then?"

"Master remembers it well."

Zhang Xuanhong's eyes were solemn and he looked quite majestic. He was young and strong, and was in his prime, ready to forge ahead and wipe out all evil. But when he talked about the people in the eye of this storm, he smiled a little.

He said frankly: "Not only did I almost become a disciple, I was actually half a disciple."

Zheng Zhiwei was stunned: "She is such a talented and beautiful girl?"

Zhang Zhenren pondered for a moment, organized his words, and said, "Miss Yang came here that year, saying that the child had grown up in Baihua Valley and his injuries had fully recovered. It would be inconvenient for him to be among women, so she wanted to find a good place for him."

"Over the years, Miss Yang has never asked me for anything, so I agreed. I thought that since he is the child Miss Yang values, his character must be perfect. As for his talent, I don't care. After all, there are ways to teach smart people and ways to teach stupid people. No matter how talented he is, can he be better than me?"

Zheng Zhiwei nodded: "Then the matter fell through."

"Yes, it is really boring with all the twists and turns and the infighting between the government and the opposition."

There is no point in talking about the conspiracy and plot back then. Zhang Xuanhong continued, "It doesn't matter whether I accept this disciple or not. I just think that Miss Yang has never asked me to do anything before, and I messed up the first time I asked. Although it's not my fault, I'm still embarrassed after all. Plus..."

He thought for a moment, and said, "Let me ask you, Master. If you were fifteen or sixteen years old, full of vigor and ambition, and were about to become the disciple of the old headmaster, and you did a great and chivalrous thing during that time, but because of it, you cut off your path to heaven and lost the qualification to become a disciple of Xuanyuan Sect... What would you do then?"

With Daozi's character and cultivation, he would not lie about this matter. Zheng Zhiwei thought of the past, smiled, and answered frankly: "It must be a great blow, and he will sink into despair. Maybe he will even become cynical and curse the heavens and the earth."

"Yes, I was worried at the time that the boy, who was young and ambitious, might sink into depravity after encountering such a setback, and would always fail Miss Yang's trust. After thinking about it, I went to Lin County in person to comfort the boy. I wanted to at least privately establish a master-disciple relationship with him and promise him something so that he could cheer up..."

Zheng Zhiwei looked at his expression and smiled, "I guess this is beyond your expectations."

"Yes, when I arrived in Lin County, I found that the kid was acting as if nothing had happened and was even continuing to treat the sewage. He really did it himself, covered in mud, and worked with the county residents to dredge the river."

"Oh?" Zheng Zhiwei's expression changed slightly, "Are you just pretending to be strong?"

"I also had this guess, so I couldn't help but test him."

Talking about the absurd things that happened before, Zhang Xuanhong himself laughed: "First, he hired someone to test him, then he disguised himself, and finally he went straight to the point and mocked him for being hypocritical and seeking fame, which backfired and blocked his way to heaven."

Zheng Zhiwei pointed at his favorite disciple and said, "You...what about that kid? Could it be that he has always been calm and composed, and never argued or resisted?"

"Do not."

Zhang Xuanhong shook his head and said, "He threw the man I hired to provoke him into the river. I mocked him directly, and he started to curse at me. The words were so dirty that I can still hear them...but from beginning to end, he was annoyed but not angry."

At this point, Xuanyuan Daozi showed surprise: "This is a good character."

"Yes... Originally, Miss Yang asked me to accept a disciple or not, but after seeing this child with my own eyes, I really wanted to accept him as a disciple... Such a scene of a bright moonlit river with water flowing freely and coming and going as one pleases, actually appeared in a teenager, which is really rare in the world."

"But after all, we don't have the status of Xuanyuan Sect, so our sect didn't teach him anything. We only taught him the Xuanji Thirteen Styles, which I am still perfecting. In monthly correspondence, I just told him some boxing theories and martial arts, and helped him summarize and integrate the current martial arts. I think that's enough. I originally planned to wait for ten or eight years, and when the turmoil of "Lin County Investigation" is over, I would ask him if he is willing to join our sect..."

Zhang Xuanhong also felt emotional when he said this.

When I accepted him as my disciple, I never thought that this cheap and nameless disciple would be so capable.

At this moment, Daozi suddenly said, "You can teach me more."

Master Zhang was slightly surprised: "Ah?"

The headmaster looked at the telegram in his hand and smiled. "Since he is so valued by the Lingyu Sect, there must be something important going on. I didn't expect that you would keep keeping Li Bailong in the dark... Since there is such a close relationship, it doesn't count as us interfering. It's okay to settle the relationship between master and disciple." Zhang Xuanhong frowned and said, "Fenglin Volcano..."

Michiko burst into laughter.

He took out the intelligence Ling Yu sent from his sleeve last night: "You little brat from the Wenren clan, you have nurtured the demon sect, framed the good, and written a letter to frame you. Do you still have the nerve to talk nonsense here?"

Zhang Xuanhong had not heard of this before. He took it and looked at it: "This... does Wenren have the guts to do this?"

"It can't be that the Lingyu Sect forged it, right? They have won a great victory and are in the process of pursuing the enemy relentlessly. How could they do such a stupid thing?" Zheng Zhiwei said nonchalantly, "If it's not the Lingyu Sect, who do you think it could be?"

Zhang Xuanhong thought about it for a moment and looked at himself in a state of not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"That must be Wenren without a doubt."

"Yeah."

Daozi raised his voice and said, "Someone come!"

The Taoist servant who had been waiting outside came quickly, took the piece of paper from the headmaster, and listened to his instructions.

"Send this letter to Taihe Temple, saying that Fenglin Tianjiao Wenrenzhuo secretly communicated with the Demon Sect, framed the good, forged the letter to the Demon Sect, and tried to get close to Qingxu Tongwei Xianhua Zhenjun and Leifu Bingzhu of this dynasty. Let Taihe Temple open fire with all its strength and let Bafengtai know the consequences of messing with the Tiger's Whiskers and messing with the Xuanyuan Sect."

After the man took the order and left, Zheng Zhiwei smiled and said, "Let your beloved disciple vent his anger."

Zhang Xuanhong said calmly: "It's selling well now, but it's just icing on the cake. Lingyu Sect is helping us in our time of need. Li Bailong is soft-hearted and not hard-hearted. With such a great favor, he will definitely be recruited by Lingyu Sect. It's impossible to snatch him away..."

"I didn't say I wanted to rob, I just wanted to sell it well, and besides..."

Master Xuanyuan gave a meaningful smile.

With the promotion of telegraphs today, many urgent matters and major policies in the world cannot escape the eyes of Xuanyuan Sect. The tentacles of intelligence are spreading along the post station system layer by layer, making Xuanyuan Sect much more informed than before. Earlier today, he received news that someone had set off towards Linxian County by traveling day and night.

"I always feel that the Lingyu Sect may not be able to snatch it."

At the same time, Baihua Valley has welcomed back its distinguished guests.

Sect leader Yang Ying led three first-generation elders and dozens of second-generation disciples out of the valley to welcome the former prime minister of the empire. The old man's name was Nong Jincao. He used to be the Minister of Agriculture, in charge of the production and storage activities of the Great Qi Military Feast. He was the head of the Nongji Hall among the Twelve Prefectures of Lintai, and was in a high position of power.

When I saw him today, he turned out to be a kind and gentle old man.

"Mr. Li, I have admired your reputation for a long time. I have admired your reputation for a long time."

The old man smiled brightly and simply, just like the old man sitting in the farmhouse at the village entrance to enjoy the cool air. After he greeted the female heroes of Baihua Valley, he met Li Bailong. However, he just held Li Bailong's hands intimately, shook them vigorously, greeted him with a smile, chatted for a few words, and then went to talk to Yang Ying.

He is tolerant and casual, and never overshadows the others. Although he holds a high position, he is friendly and knows how to strike the right tone.

Li Bailong watched the headmaster and the Grand Minister of Agriculture chatting and leading the way for each other, and he also made eye contact and nodded with Xiong Jingyan who was beside the Grand Minister of Agriculture.

Senior Brother Xiong’s smile was friendly, more sincere and genuine than ever before. After all, they would soon become one of our own.

Jiang Lishu whispered, "Why is it really like marrying a disciple?"

"Why are you doing this..."

Li Bailong rolled his eyes and lowered his voice: "Come to think of it, who was that person who just came? I have never seen the head master show such a panic expression."

"do not know."

Jiang Lishu whispered in his ear: "Your master uncle asked Lao Qi to stay to receive this person. When Lao Qi heard about the identity of this person, he looked as if he had seen a ghost... He must be extraordinary."

"It can't be that this is the eunuch from Ningguo who came here to pass on the imperial decree to confer the title of Marquis."

"I think it's more like he came here to steal the bride."

"Who wants to get married... Hey!"

Li Bailong thought about it over and over but couldn't figure it out. The head master was so mysterious and puzzling, but it didn't matter. No matter what the situation was, his going to Lingyu Sect was a foregone conclusion. All that was left was for the parents of both sides to negotiate the gift and set a wedding date, and then he would be stuffed into the bridal sedan crying.

After returning to Baihua Valley, the Grand Minister of Agriculture left his followers outside the valley and only took two followers including Xiong Jingyan with him. This kind of respectful behavior was even more pleasing to the eye.

Jiang Lishu whispered, "Hey, the headmaster's expression is even worse, he looks so worried, could it be that he really promised you to someone else secretly, and now he comes to our house, you are actually going to give your pure and chaste body to two families to play with?"

Li Bailong said angrily: "If you keep saying such dirty words, I will dedicate this innocent body to the one I love most before I get married!"

"..."

The master immediately turned his head away and stopped talking.

"Master, your neck is red..."

Li Bailong covered his abdomen silently, and at this moment, the Grand Minister of Agriculture was looking at him with a smile.

"Friend Li, I am exhausted from the journey and I am covered in sweat. I will go take a shower first and then I will trouble you to take me around."

As the only male disciple, Li Bailong was indeed responsible for receiving male guests when they visited the sect. And it was obvious what the Grand Minister of Agriculture wanted to discuss this time.

There is always a weird feeling that I have to negotiate the dowry in person...

Complaining in his heart, Li Bailong smiled and responded: "That's what I really want. I dare not refuse."

Nong Jincao laughed.

After sending the Grand Minister of Agriculture and his party to the guest house, Li Bailong turned around and looked at the uneasy head master. Before he could ask a question, the other party asked it immediately.

"Let me ask you, besides the Lingyu Sect, have you hooked up with anyone else?"

Li Bailong thought about it and decided that if he had to say who he wanted to hook up with recently, it would definitely be Beining. Unfortunately, he was still at the stage where he had no feelings for his lover, and he didn't even know the radio frequency of Ningguo Radio.

So he cried out, "No."

"Bah, they're here to grab the bride, are you sure?"

"..."

Please stop saying that!

Li Bailong was puzzled and asked, "Who is it?"

The head master looked around and saw that there were no spies from the Lingyu Sect around, so he whispered in Li Bailong's ear, "King Zhao."

"????????"

Fuck, why is it getting later and later...

I'll write a little more before I go to bed and see if I can save the first chapter for tomorrow.

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