[Ye Lan] Cup of Joy

Chapter 16 Chapter 16

Lan He was in a hurry, and just about to stand up, he realized the pain in his waist, and couldn't help being stunned—what happened last night was not a dream, and what happened today was not a dream either.

So what the hell is Ye Xiu doing!

He raised his hand and touched the kit on his neck. It was bulging. He must have seen the contents. He remembered that the coachman said that Ye Xiu was going to take him back to Xishan City. He had already been seen by the old Pavilion Master, and Ye Xiu must have known his identity and purpose clearly.

But now that everything that should be done has been done, why send him back?Did you agree not to abandon him again?

O man!

Lan He was muttering, when he heard the wheels of the carriage "creak", the carriage stopped.The coachman raised a corner of the curtain and said apologetically, "Guest officer, the road ahead has collapsed and we can't get through. Look..."

Lan He snorted coldly: "How else can I go?"

The coachman shrank his neck embarrassingly: "I have to go back to Xiaoshan City and change to an official road."

Lan He's eyes lit up: "How much money did he pay you?"

"It's too much, it's enough to bring you back from Xishan City, guest officer!"

"Well, there's no need to send me so far. Now go back the same way!" Lan He said firmly.

The coachman got the order, and immediately turned the horse's head happily, and slapped the whip on the way.

Lan He closed his eyes and meditated in the swaying carriage, but he couldn't get rid of Ye Xiu's face in his mind.He suddenly remembered the bee crystal that he ate together that night, the taste was really endless.As a result, when Baozi took the bee crystal back the next day, Chen Guo found a gap in the bee crystal.At that time, Ye Xiu joked, "It must have been eaten by some little mouse."

"Tch, you know how to make fun of me." Lan He pouted, suddenly felt the carriage suddenly tilted to the side, and stopped again.It turned out that we had arrived at an official road outside Xiaoshan City, and the coachman was about to turn a corner into the city, but was almost knocked over by another gorgeous carriage, the coachman hastily pulled the reins and steered the horse towards the city. Moved aside, cursed a few words in his mouth.

Lan He was curious, so he opened the curtains and took a look, but he didn't expect that the curtains of the speeding carriage were blown up by the wind, and the person inside with his head tilted and his eyes closed was so familiar!

It's Ye Xiu!Moreover, there was a white silk tied around his mouth, his face was blue, it looked like he was fainted!

When Lan He came back to his senses, the carriage had already turned into a small black spot in the distance, and it was heading towards Hangzhou.

Lan He gritted his teeth, and ordered the coachman to send him into the city quickly.As soon as he got off the car at the entrance of Xingxin Inn, he noticed something was wrong - it was the time of dinner in the evening, but the door of Xingxin Inn was closed and it was not open.He asked the people who were watching the excitement nearby. It turned out that when we were having dinner at noon, a black wind blew up in the backyard, and the guests were scared away. Now the whole inn is full of darkness, no one can be seen clearly at all, and even the government servants dare not approach.

"It's been almost three hours and no one has come out..." An old man watching the excitement shook his head and sighed.

Lan He's heart skipped a beat -- could it be that someone poisoned everyone else in order to kidnap Ye Xiu?

He walked around the inn cautiously, and suddenly noticed something, and couldn't help muttering: "...Zuo Zhen You Dui, Shang Li Xia Kan... what else is there?"

He vaguely remembered that he had been taught by his father to learn a little bit of swordsmanship and formation since he could remember.In my memory, my father held his little hand, holding a small mahogany sword, and scratched it in the sand table on the ground, while my mother stood aside with a cat in her arms and looked at them with a smile.And what he can remember is the series of formulas his father taught him, which is said to be the unique array system of the big family where his father worked.

Through the thin dust of time, when he recalled the series of formulas again, he felt that the inn in front of him had become a huge sand table, and it seemed that many places that were covered in fog had become clear.Without thinking, Lan He moved forward to move this stone, that bench, and other small objects, and the black air that almost pressed against the window gradually faded away.Lan He walked around to the backyard, carefully staring at the surroundings of the earth pit, but racked his brains and couldn't remember the last sentence, so he simply pulled out his long sword and stabbed into the pit, only to hear a shrill scream, and the blackness was completely exhausted. It's gone.Lan He stretched out his head and saw that there was a catfish with a scorpion tail and centipede feet in the pit. He couldn't help feeling sick, and hurriedly pulled out his sword and rubbed it back and forth on the muddy ground many times before putting the sword back into its sheath.

Then he broke open the backyard door and entered the main room, seeing everyone in Xingxin lying on the ground in a mess, he hurried to shake An Wenyi awake first.

"Ye Xiu was kidnapped?" An Wenyi was also taken aback, but he quickly calmed down, "The most important thing is to rescue everyone first, otherwise..." He coughed up a mouthful of black blood as he spoke.

"What's wrong with you?" Lan He was startled, and helped him to sit down slowly, "Hasn't the formation been broken?"

"The formation was mixed with Gu Qi, and we were all poisoned." An Wenyi explained.He forced himself up to the second floor, and asked Blue River to help drag everyone to the corridor on the second floor and arrange them in a row, while he himself was dispensing medicine in the room.

"Fortunately, it's barely enough." An Wenyi breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered Lan He to pour the prepared concoction into the jug, and feed it to everyone on the ground one by one.

"Everyone will wake up in less than an hour, let's discuss it later." An Wenyi rubbed his heart, "I really didn't expect you to come back. But this time things are probably very dangerous, so you better not get involved It's-"

"Why?" An Wenyi was interrupted by Lan He before he finished speaking.The little swordsman's chest rose and fell, and his eyes were red: "Now his life or death is uncertain, you can't go, what should I do if I don't go to him? Yes, I came here with ulterior motives, but he also saved me three times. Even for this reason, I can't leave him alone!"

An Wenyi sighed, and sat down with his back against the wall: "He didn't even think about asking you to work for him, but you thought too much. He asked you to call him 'Engong' just to tease you. Ye Xiu has helped countless people in the past ten years, but he has never cared about getting anything in return. He has endured the matter of revenge. He probably never bothered to pretend to be someone's benefactor. If you don't understand the opponent's strength, if something goes wrong with you..."

Lan He took a deep breath, and grasped the scabbard tightly with his left hand: "Yes, yes, I'm just an outer disciple of Lanxi Pavilion, I'm not that capable. But it's a big deal, I still have a life!" After finishing speaking, he turned around Just run outside.

An Wenyi was startled, his eyes softened.He caught a glimpse of a puddle of black blood on Lan He's right hand, and hurriedly stopped him, telling him to drink the medicine: "You also have some Gu Qi. Drink this, and go quickly."

Lan He was stunned: "Isn't this the last bowl of medicine? What will you do if I drink it?"

"I'm a doctor, and I don't fight, so it's okay to suffer for a while longer." An Wenyi smiled, "Take care and do what you can."

Lan He took the medicine bowl and drank it down, and returned it to An Wenyi, with burning eyes: "Thank you!"

Looking at the figure of Lan He running away, An Wenyi's eyes drifted away for a while, coughed up a few mouthfuls of black blood, and muttered: "I know I can't do it, it's really..."

Lan He left the inn and hired a fast horse.He began to be thankful that Ye Xiu stuffed a lot of money in his pocket, and now it came in handy.When he ran to the gate of Hangcheng, the horse was already foaming at the mouth.

Although he didn't know where it was, Lan He felt intuitively that it should be in Jiayin Mountain, so he went there without hesitation.There was no one in the valley.Ever since the big battles of monsters breaking the seal twice in succession, the common people have been hiding far away, not daring to come any closer.Lan He was pondering around at the foot of Jiayin Mountain, and suddenly saw traces of the formation he was very familiar with, so he carefully moved a few places, and sure enough, a small door appeared on the stone wall.Lan He bent down to go in, walking deeper and deeper, he couldn't help but secretly sighed that there was a cave in the belly of Jiayin Mountain.

Gradually, there was the sound of tinkling bowls.Blue River crept closer, only to find that this small hole led to a hall.He sneaked out through the darkness, took a closer look, and couldn't help being surprised——

The grotto was very large, a ring-shaped seat was formed four or five feet away from him, and a large circular open space was circled in the center, and a circular stone platform was in the center of the open space.He didn't know the person standing by the stone platform, but he didn't look like an ordinary person in any way, not to mention he was chatting and laughing with the great gods sitting around him.

Isn't it the great god!The people who sat there were all the figures on the list of gods and the heads of various small schools and sects!

There are constantly maids coming in gracefully through the small door on the other side, putting wine, delicacies and fruit plates on the table, but these people are very "reserved" and don't move their chopsticks at all.

"High Priest Tao, did you send a secret letter to invite me to come here just for this grand banquet?" Zhang Xinjie was the one who spoke first.

"Deputy sect master Zhang was joking. Naturally, there is a business to be done." Unexpectedly, the person standing by the stone platform was Tao Xuan, the high priest of Excellent Era Sect who had disappeared for a long time!

"Stained with the smell of copper, what kind of people are you?" Han Wenqing snorted coldly and said impatiently.

"Ye Qiu is leaving, but it's too unruly for you to call someone with the token of the martial arts leader?" This time it was Zhang Jiale who spoke.

But when he heard Lu Hanwen whisper, "Tyranny's people talk a lot", Yu Wenzhou couldn't help but smile, patted his head comfortingly, and said, "I don't know if High Priest Tao has something important to wait with me." It’s better to talk straight to the point than to discuss it.”

It turns out that Huang Shaotian didn't come, I don't know if his injury has healed or not.Lan He was thinking about whether to get closer, when Tao Xuan laughed loudly again, and then pressed the stone platform, a crack opened in the center, and a person lying quietly appeared inside, as if surrounded by Like a spool, it was tied to a stone slab raised in the air. Couldn't that look be Ye Xiu?

Lou Guanning next to him was still trembling, so Tao Xuan took out another thread-bound ancient book from his sleeve, and said word by word: "This is the secret method of Gu poison in Miaojiang. Thief Ye Qiu——No need to use force, one knife per person is enough, I will dedicate this secret method to you, and share my dynasty with you; if—”

"What if you refuse?" Chu Yunxiu raised her eyebrows.

"Then I can only give you a cup of fine wine!"

As soon as Tao Xuan finished speaking, a large group of Gu monsters like those that Lan He saw today appeared on the ceiling and walls of the grotto - catfish with scorpion tails and centipede feet, they all gathered together, breathing With a gecko-like tongue.

Looking at the tense atmosphere in the center, Lan He knew that it was the time when he could not get off, so he leaned against the wall and moved in secretly.He thought to himself, as long as Ye Xiu was protected, other people would not have so many scruples.Unexpectedly, he felt a pain in the back of his foot as soon as he took three steps. When he lowered his head, another monster with a strange shape appeared in his field of vision, followed by a sap in the back of his head, and he lost consciousness.

"Report! Caught one..."

Those behind the blue river can't hear it.When he woke up, he found himself hanged on a wooden frame, his whole body was limp and weak, and it was Ye Xiu who was looking at him from afar.He seemed to have woken up, but a white cloth was strangled in his mouth and he couldn't speak.Lan He raised his eyelids and looked around. Those masters were all holding weapons in their hands, but none of them acted rashly.Looking at his feet again, Lan He was frightened into a cold sweat—isn't this the location of the stone platform just now?There is actually a deep pool below, and more than a dozen pig dragons can be vaguely seen swimming around.Lan He raised his neck stiffly, only then did he realize that the wooden frame between himself and Ye Xiu was a mechanism shaft, as long as one of them was taken away, the other would undoubtedly fall into this pool and become the pig's wife. supper.

Just when Lan He was covered in a layer of cold sweat, he suddenly saw that the group of masters gave way, and a person carrying an umbrella was walking quickly, and then stopped in front of the crowd—it was also Ye build!

Lan He didn't realize it for a while, and was about to shout, when he heard Tao Xuan say with a half-smile: "Have you thought about it yet?"

"—Do you want your wife or your younger brother?"