Ask Sword

At night, outside Chang'an City, post house.

"Damn it, why are there so many mosquitoes?!"

A guard got up from the bed, panting heavily, lit the candles in the room with a torch, and scanned the surrounding viciously, looking for the damned mosquitoes.

His actions woke up several other guards in the room, but Li Shenbin in the corner remained motionless and slept soundly.

This group of people escorted Li Shenbin to a hundred thousand barren hills to serve the sentence of exile.

The penalty of exile has existed since ancient times. Sending the condemned person to a poor country can not only maintain social order, but also

It can also enrich the population and reclaim wasteland for remote state capitals with vast land and sparse population.

Mangzhou, where Li Shenbin was going, was close to the 100,000 barren hills. It was the front line of Yu State's border expansion, and it was also one of the main places for exiled prisoners.

The environment there is harsh, and people die unexpectedly every year. Occasionally, some people can't stand it anymore and escape back—their fate is usually arrested by the Zhenfu Department and sent back to Mangzhou to serve their sentence.

Fortunately, this group of guards didn't really need to go to Mangzhou—after leaving Chang'an Baili and finishing the formalities, they would be replaced by the monks from the Zhenfu Division in the next room.

Use the more efficient flying sword to directly drive Li Shenbin to Mangzhou.

This unwritten rule, firstly, is afraid that the relatives of the emperor will die on the road, which will make it difficult for Dali Temple and other institutions to argue.

The second reason is that because of the noble status of the royal relatives, they may encounter retaliation, attacks and the like on the road.

However, after staying in the prosperous Chang'an City for a long time, even just going out of the city for a while is still uncomfortable.

One of them is the guest house without mosquito nets.

A colleague sighed and said: "Hold on, didn't the people in the post tell me that the Southern Zhou Mission is also here, and they have booked the rooms with mosquito nets first."

"What happened to the Southern Zhou Mission?"

The guard pouted towards the corner, "We still have this one."

This sentence was difficult to answer. Seeing his colleagues fell into silence, the guards made fun of themselves and slapped the mosquitoes on their own.

The salaries of the servants in Dali Temple were not high, so they couldn't afford the newly released mosquito repellent oil in Chang'an City, but the mosquitoes were killed, and the drowsiness disappeared.

If you can't sleep, you just have to chat.

The topics of the few people first started from Marseilles to the upcoming preliminary examination of the academy, and then from the initial examination of the academy to the ward, and then somehow, they talked about anecdotes and strange things.

The ancient locust trees in the east city of Chang'an City are said to have been planted in the Southern Dynasty, and they are older than the former Sui Dynasty. When Bodhidharma traveled east, he also enlightened under a certain ancient locust tree.

That ancient locust tree possesses miraculous powers, and if someone is willing to pay the price, his most pious and strongest wish can be realized.

But maybe it's because of its limited mana, or maybe Guhuai itself is a kind of alien that is harmful to people, and the way it fulfills its wishes is always contrary to people's expectations.

For example, if someone wished to be named on the gold list with the joy of his life, then the number one on the list that year was really his name—it was just another person with the same name and surname.

A certain person will be unique in his life, and if he makes a wish for a windfall, he will really get a fortune——compensation for being hit and disabled by a rich man's carriage.

As time passed, no one believed in Gu Huai's wishing anymore.

But there is a person who does not believe in evil. He thinks that the previous wish-makers were too straightforward and could easily lead to bad consequences, so a tactful wish must be made to get a happy ending.

He saw the existence of the invisible leaf from an ancient book, and every night, he went to offer incense to the ancient locust tree, worshiped devoutly, and exchanged an invisible leaf at the cost of reducing his life by ten years.

According to the book, the invisibility leaf will not make him disappear, it will take effect when he picks it up, and it will be invalid when he puts it down, and it can be used whenever he takes it.

After seven, seven, forty-nine days in a row, finally on the last day, a leaf floated down from the ancient locust tree. fell in front of him.

After picking up the leaf, he found that others could not see him.

Those who trip over him will only think that they slipped and fell when they walked. There was no sign of him in the mirror. Even the monks were unaware of his presence.

He was finally completely at ease, took the invisibility leaf, swaggered into the bank vault, and took away the gold and silver money inside.

Just as he was walking out with money in his pocket, a palm was pressed on his shoulder. Turning his head, he saw a benevolent old man with white hair.

He was shocked and subconsciously called out, "How can you see me?"

The old man replied with a smile: "The invisibility leaf in your hand can indeed make you invisible.

only."

As he spoke, the old man's mouth grew bigger and bigger, revealing a mouth full of fangs, he ate his head in one bite, and said vaguely: "I'm not human."

It turns out that in the alien world, the person holding the invisibility leaf is as dazzling as an oil lamp in the wilderness at night.

The guard who spoke paused, and said leisurely: "But, this story must be false.

If the ancient locust tree could really respond to requests, the leaves and flowers would have been scooped up by the wishers long ago, so how could it still stand there.

The Academy and the Zhenfu Division had also discovered its abnormality long ago, leveled it, sent it to Dongjun Building or some other place, and put it under strict supervision. "

clang clang clang——

The soft bell of Haotian sounded in the post house, and before you knew it, it was already Yinzheng.

Tomorrow they had to go on their way, so everyone blew out the candles, went back to their beds, and fell into a drowsy sleep.

The guard who got up first to fight mosquitoes was lying on the bed, tossing and turning, and vaguely heard the slight, creaking sound of trampling on the wooden floor of the room.

It is estimated that someone got up in the middle of the night to relieve himself.

The guard turned over and continued to sleep, but the slight squeaky trampling sound stopped for a while and started again, and slowly turned half a circle around the room.

He subconsciously opened his eyes, and in the dimness, he saw a corner of the quilt of the servant on the opposite bed lifted without any warning.

Then came the first bed and the third bed.

Wherever there are abnormalities,

The creaking sound of the wooden boards in that room can be heard everywhere.

The quilts are rolled up one after another, and a corner is lifted,

It's like an invisible butcher, picking the fattest pig in the pigsty.

Finally, footsteps sounded beside the bed where Li Shenbin was.

The guard only felt a cold current rushing through his body, subconsciously wanting to scream.

Zheng!

In the next moment, with the sound of gold and iron colliding,

Li Shenbin's body burst into bright rainbow light, which penetrated the bedroom.

Talisman.

The light emitted by the protective talisman illuminated the entire room, woke up all the yamen servants, and also illuminated the intended perpetrator—a short figure covered in gray robes and holding a wooden dagger.

On the dagger made of wood chips, there happened to be a green leaf growing.

The assassin did not expect this situation to happen, and he held the wooden dagger tightly with both hands, his body appeared and disappeared, but under the rainbow light of the talisman, he could not completely disappear.

Li Shenbin, who was awakened, patted the bed and got up. Looking at the assassin in front of him, he laughed wantonly and said, "I knew someone was going to assassinate me. Who? Who told you to come?

Li Ang, Meng Chengye or Jin Wusuan?

Hahaha, no matter who it is, who disobeys the emperor's orders and commits murder, he must die! ! "

As if wanting to verify his words, swords rang out from the next room, and the two Zhenfu monks who were in charge of assisting the guards in escorting Li Shenbin to Mangzhou made their move.

bang bang!

Two flying swords smashed through the wall, stabbing towards the assailant like thunder.

Li Shenbin sat on the bed and watched all this happen proudly.

He is a relative of the emperor, and his status is far from being comparable to that of an ordinary prisoner. What's more, he has a deadly feud with Jin Wusuan, the number one wealthy businessman in the Yu Kingdom. Out of various considerations, the Zhen Fusi lent him several protective talismans to prevent possible assassinations on the road to exile.

It's just that I didn't expect that the assassination would come so quickly, so hastily, so... waste.

Li Shenbin almost wanted to sing a song, his exile punishment was changed by Emperor Yu himself.

Regardless of the Emperor himself, no matter how much he despises or dislikes himself,

Such an assassination against the emperor's will will not be tolerated.

The assassin, as well as the mastermind behind him, will die a terrible death.

boom!

The sword energy of the two flying swords was reckless, cutting the floor of the room to pieces, but they missed the assassin as expected.

The short assailant himself was at the corner of the room at this moment, being protected by a dark figure in a black windbreaker and a dragon head mask.