8. Spontaneous combustion under the moon (5/5)(1/2)
Linlang Water Pavilion is a small island in the middle of a lake north of the Duke of Xia’s Mansion.
The island is not big, but less than three hundred square meters.
However, an old attic that stores books from all ages in the Xia family, a four-corner building with pillars on the water, and a wooden trestle for boats to dock, the rest are just green plants and red flowers, but now the autumn is cold and has long since passed.
The Mid-Autumn Festival has not arrived, and the moon is incomplete.
The green bamboo holds the dead bamboo pole and paddles one by one on the water surface that is covering the twilight.
The dusk broke, and it turned into a pool of dreary light.
In the distance, there was a stone tablet at the entrance of the water pavilion, with six words written on it: One year of the island, no trouble at night.
This is written by the ancestors of the Xia family, which means "If you want to live in a water pavilion, it is a limit of one year and you cannot leave." And after nightfall, outsiders should not disturb you. This is a meaning of "to be quiet and to achieve far-reaching, and to be indifferent to show your ambitions."
If you are a scholar, you should study quietly here and no longer care about things outside the island.
If you are a martial artist, you will practice martial arts and comprehend here.
Almost everyone in the Xia family has lived on this island, from Duke Xia, then Xia Mingkong, and then Xia Qing. Perhaps it is because of such strange family rules that the Xia family has produced one Qilin son after another, so that they will not die in three generations.
Now, Xia Ji takes the initiative to come to this island for a long time, not just reading books. No matter who it is, he feels very pleased. He feels that the young master is sensible, and he will definitely turn into a cocoon and become a butterfly this year. After all, the Xia family members were like this before.
The next autumn is coming, and the young master will definitely take the high school in one go, and will not be named the Xia family.
“Oh~~~”
The green bamboo stretched out the bamboo pole, and reached the shore from afar, and then took a few more strokes.
The head of the boat was "splashed" and hit the wooden trestle that was protruding on the lake. She grabbed a thick rope, gently transported her capacity, jumped onto the trestle, and started to tie the cables to fix the boat.
Xia Ji then walked down...
He glanced around.
Quiet and peaceful as if away from the hustle and bustle.
Since you are not traveling far, it is also a good choice to read here to obtain the "technique for the fusion of gold fingers".
What's more, he must be here, trying hard to find a way to "how to reverse the iron law" so that he can even enter the realm of the first level of the right path.
Furthermore, Sister Xiaoqing said today that "the devil is rampant and the world is gradually chaotic". He needs an environment that "even if he goes out, no one will know."
The Linlang Water Pavilion just satisfies these three points.
So, he came.
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"It's so heavy...Young Master, you have so many books."
Soon, the second boat arrived again, and Blueberry commanded many strong guards to start moving books.
These are all books in Xia Ji's house. They packed four large boxes and then they almost moved them all.
Xia Ji said: "Go back, it's late."
The maids and guards looked at the sky, it was indeed late.
Considering the strange rules of Linlang Water Pavilion, Lan Meizi said: "Then I will bring some maids with fine hands and feet tomorrow to help the young master organize the booklets."
Xia Ji nodded and responded, and then he watched the two small boats leave in the afterglow of the sky.
Yes...
There are no boats in the Linlang Water Pavilion, and the water around it is very deep, which to some extent restricts the "people living in the island"'s desire to leave suddenly and restrains the restlessness.
In fact, many Xia family members who live in the island will not be trapped by "no boats". However, this "obstruction" will make them reflect on it and make them unable to help but think about "why did they come to this island?", "Is it a failure if I left like this and gave up halfway?", "Is it worth it to fail for a whim?"
Thinking of this, they suppressed their desire to move again, calm down, and study and practice.
So, this water helped many Xia family elites and ancestors to suppress the demons in their hearts.
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At this time, the moonlight is like water.
But at another place, it is far from calm here, as if it were some unknown signs of national turmoil. At the beginning of some collapses, a storm sweeping over the territory of Shu Kingdom.
The moonlight is pale, as white as dry bones unearthed.
On both sides of the pale mountain road are steep and ghostly forests, and on the road are policemen holding torches and pulling hunting dogs.
Sniff sniff...
The dogs smelled...
The elite patrolman who pulled the dog looked serious and searched for something in the wild mountains.
The man in the lead had a heavy face. Unlike other policemen, he carried six knives and his robe was embroidered with golden flying fish.
"Looking carefully, there are even murderers who dare to send invitation letters... Invite us Wudang Feimen to come here to watch the massacre performance, arrogant, domineering, damn it!!" The man's voice was cold, and he walked forward step by step.
Around him, there were seventy or eighty elite patrolmen and hunting dogs running in the grass.
Not long after, a policeman in blue fish suit quickly ran to the man from a distance and said respectfully: "Mr. Zhao, there was a discovery about 800 meters ahead of the left."
Lord Zhao is one of the four great capturers of Wudang Feimen - Zhao Xue.
Zhao Xue's realm is not low, and he has already entered the realm of a fifth-grade master in half a step. He is known for his quick action, and there is no big problem in suppressing the same realm.
Upon hearing the report, Zhao Xue sneered: "The show is about to begin..."
After saying that, he clapped his hands and all the policemen who were originally exploring the situation returned.
Zhao Xue said: "Prepare for battle."
After saying a word, all the police officers immediately took out two elixirs that emitted different fragrances from their arms and threw them into their mouths.
One of them is an antidote, which is detoxified in advance to prevent it from being hit.
The other one is a powerful spiritual refreshing pill, which uses hypnotic drugs such as sleepiness.
Then the eight tall people in the police station went to the southeast, northwest and north, respectively, and at the same time, they grabbed a thick iron shield two meters high and two meters wide from behind and stood up directly.
In an instant, this patrol team without flying gates turned into a mobile fortress, which can attack and retreat or defend.
Zhao Xueze is in the center of this team.
The moon is almost full and a little cold.
The cold wind blew, and the shadow of the black clouds was cast into the deep mountains and dense forests from time to time, and the sky and the earth were bright and dark.
Hahaha...
Suddenly, some big black birds began to disperse like crazy.
Zhao Xue spread his hands, and the six swords were filled with true energy. He was ready to take action at any time.
This police squad soon arrived "eight hundred meters away"...
Zhao Xue looked up sharply and saw strange black shadows hanging on the treetops not far away.
It's like a hanged corpse, but I don't know what it is.
Because the black shadows were covered in black bags.
Slap sex...
It seemed that someone had stepped on some mechanism. The black bags in the distance were suddenly lifted up, revealing the men and women hanging on the treetops. There were eight people. These eight people were not hanging, but were tied up as a whole.
What's more, there are eight names hanging in front of these eight people.
But these eight names are not their own, but the four great masters of Wudang Feimen, the capture king, and the two nicknames of the Divine Eagle Hall, as well as Xia Wudi, who is known as the world's number one master.
Zhao Xue swept the names and felt even more alert. At the same time, he frowned. He could see at a glance that these people should be all civilians in the capital, and they seemed to be breathing, not dead, but just sleeping.
"alert!"
The captain couldn't figure out what trick this was, and he was not in a hurry to save people. Instead, his whole body was tense, waiting for the evil demons and heretics to appear, and he would kill whoever came.
The air is tense.
The quiet and scary everywhere.
But there was no movement.
Zhao Xue's eyes were quickly turned around, and he was just a powerful bow that had already pulled the bowstrings open, waiting for the people from the Demon Sect to appear.
Chichi...
The police officers around him had already sweated cold sweat.
But no one moved.
Because everyone was ready, no matter who came, there would be continuous crossbow arrows shooting towards the man in an instant. Lord Zhao Xue was best at attacking in the medium range. Six long swords could instantly dismember the enemy in the rain of arrows!
The dark wind blew, the dark clouds came and went, and it was not until they were blown away that the rich moonlight in the sky was revealed.
The glory of the nearly full moon is extremely bright, penetrates the dense forest and turns into a series of slanted light columns, shining on everyone.
To be continued...