bayedsolid Chapter 671 Untitled 1
Chapter 671 Untitled 1
Xuanying did not stay in Baijun City for long. He and his four attendants agreed to meet in Jiangkouyi in half a month, but he had stayed in the underground dark room for eighteen days, plus the time from Jiangkouyi to Baijun City, more than twenty days had passed. And it would take at least four days for him to rush back to Jiangkouyi, so the total time was close to a month.
The four attendants were all assigned to me by my master, Golden Blade and Black Sword, but one or two of them might also be Jin Lier's men. I haven't shown up for such a long time, which will definitely arouse their suspicion, and this matter will sooner or later be reported to my master and Jin Lier.
A cold thought suddenly popped up in his mind - kill them!
When he arrived at the place where he had agreed to meet with the four attendants in Jiangkou, he did not see any trace of the four men. He asked a nearby fruit vendor, who said that he had seen four men with knives ten days ago and thought they were soldiers coming to collect taxes. The small businesses nearby were all scared. However, the four men just wandered around and did not talk to anyone. But they had not appeared for several days, and they probably had gone somewhere else.
Xuanying knew that they had been waiting for him for several days but had not seen him, so they must have returned to Jinyang City on their own.
He suddenly felt that he did not belong to Jinyang City. Although he had his own pine and bamboo garden and the general's mansion there, Sisi was no longer there. From the tone of his master, it seemed that he was dissatisfied with him, or even wary of him. He didn't know why he went back.
But where could he go? Lixuan Island was occupied by the Chisha people, and the Xuanzong old house in Baijun City no longer existed. He had no choice but to return to Jinyang City, where he could at least kill some Chisha people.
Thinking of this, he turned his horse and galloped towards Jinyang City in the east.
Xuanying saw many people along the way, carrying children and the elderly, dragging large and small bags, heading west in the opposite direction from him. He thought that there were many people doing business on this official road, but the traveling merchants were usually young and middle-aged men. These people were carrying the elderly and children, and it didn't look like they were doing business at all, but rather like they were migrating with their families.
He couldn't help being curious, so he went to ask the two families. He then learned that the Red Army was advancing very fast. In less than a month, they had successively captured Huachanyi and Potiyi in Jinyang City. The Jinyang Army retreated all the way north and had retreated to the vicinity of Tushanyi. Many people heard that the war was not going well, and they were thinking of ways to escape away from Jinyang City. Those who were walking with their families on the road were basically the people who were afraid that the Red Army would break through Jinyang City and fled early.
An old man in his sixties said, "I heard that Jiang Jinwei had guarded Jieyun Pass like an iron wall, and the Red Soldiers couldn't get through at all. But after the young general in my city transferred two silver lieutenants there, things went wrong. Jieyun Pass was breached by the Red Soldiers within a few days." He shook his head and continued, "I really don't understand why the Sword Master let a young boy in his early twenties be the general, alas..."
Xuanying asked hurriedly, "What did the two silver officers do to ruin the situation?"
The old man looked back and just shook his head a few times without answering.
A man in his thirties next to him said angrily: "What is there to be afraid of saying? Are there people from the Golden Sword Sect here? Jiang Jinwei was guarding the gate well, but he drank a sip of water handed to him by the person next to him and fainted. Now the whole Jinyang City says that Jiang Jinwei was harmed by people from the Golden Sword Sect. I guess it must be..." The young man looked somewhat similar to the old man and should be his son.
The old man didn't wait for him to finish his words and shouted angrily: "You son of a bitch, you know nothing, all you do is talk nonsense all day long!" He raised his carrying pole and chased his son away.
Xuanying said goodbye to the family and continued his journey eastward. He thought to himself that if the rumors were true, then someone in the Golden Sword Sect must have betrayed and deliberately let the Red Soldiers in, but was this person behind the Master?
He then recalled some words that Mu Longguang had said to him in Baijun City. Those words pierced his mind like spikes, making him sweat profusely. After an unknown amount of time, he finally jumped out of this horrible thought and shouted in his heart: "No... No... That person must not be Master. His martial arts are already so high, there is no need for him to rob Bi Ye's things. His power is already so great, there is no need for him to collude with the Chisha people..."
In a daze, he returned to the pine and bamboo garden.
As expected, several servants were waiting for him at home.
Xuanying casually said to a servant, "Go and call Miss Sisi over. I have something to ask her."
The attendant responded and left.
The man had only taken a few steps when Xuanying told him not to go, because he remembered that Sisi was no longer in Jinyang City, but had gone to Bicheng. If she was still in Jinyang City, he would have been away for a month, and she would have been waiting for him in Songzhu Garden without him having to ask anyone to call her.
Xuanying sat on the stool and sighed deeply.
Another attendant whispered, "General, go find him as soon as the Venerable returns."
When Xuanying heard these words, he seemed to wake up from a very deep dream. He raised his head suddenly and stared coldly at his guard. The light in his eyes was like icy water.
The attendant was so frightened that he could not help but take a few steps back, stammering, "General, you...you are...what's wrong with you? Did I...did I say something wrong?"
Xuanying asked fiercely: "Why did he ask you to tell me?!"
The attendant's hair almost stood up on his body, and he said, "Your Excellency... Your Excellency asked someone to pass the message... At that time... the four of us... all four of us were..." He couldn't help but glance at the other three attendants.
The other three attendants hurriedly half-knelt down and said in a mixed voice: "General, it is true... it is true that the Venerable sent someone to pass on the message..."
"We waited for you in Jiangkou for five days, thinking... we thought you were back, so we didn't wait any longer..."
"Please forgive me, General!"
Xuanying calmed down and said, "You guys go first. I'll go see Master in a minute."
The four attendants left in a panic.