The moonlight was as frosty as snow. Two fast horses galloped across the wilderness and arrived near a small town.
Because they had expected that there might be unexpected situations at Baoyuanmen in advance, when the three of them came in the afternoon, they had made preparations in advance. They found a safe house near the small town a few li away from Baoyuanmen so that they could hide in case of danger.
Ye Jingtang rode the horse and hurried forward. After confirming that there were no pursuers behind, he hid the two horses in the forest. Under the cover of the night, he entered the small town and sneaked towards a civilian house, while also paying attention to the situation in his arms.
Third Lady and Miss Luo, because they were downwind during the fight, inevitably got some Snow Moth Scale on them.
Snow Moth Scale was something used to block pursuers. Although the effect of the medicine was slow to take effect, it would definitely come. Since both sides were affected by it, he had time to flee far away, and the opponents definitely didn't dare to chase deeply.
At this time, the Snow Moth Scale had already taken effect. Their qi channels were blocked, and their hands and feet were weak. Just like the murderer last time, they could only be carried and run by others.
At this moment, Third Lady was being held in his arms, her face was flushed, and her eyebrows were furrowed; while Miss Luo was a little better. She was lying on his back, her arms around Ye Jingtang's neck, looking back to check the situation.
Ye Jingtang silently passed through the alley, leaped over the courtyard wall, and came to the courtyard of the civilian house, opening the door.
Ye Jingtang took out a tinderbox from Third Lady's belt, opened it with his finger, and a dim yellow light lit up in the pitch-black room.
The civilian house was uninhabited, and there were no neighbors around. But the house was intact, and there were some pieces of furniture inside.
In the bedroom, the windows had already been covered with black cloth in advance. On the old wooden table were placed candles, dry food, clean water, a first aid kit, and so on.
The shelf bed against the wall originally only had thatched grass, but in the afternoon when they were preparing, a white bedsheet was laid on it.
After lighting the candlestick on the table, Ye Jingtang placed the limp Third Lady on the outside of the shelf bed, and then turned around and carried Miss Luo down, placing her on the inside.
Arriving at a safe place, Luo Ning secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Lying on the bed, feeling weak all over, she turned her head and looked at Pei Xiangjun's profile:
"I'm fine. I just need to wait for the effect of the medicine to wear off. She used the 'Reversing Blood in Fengchi' just now, which injured her meridians; and she charged directly into the Pear Blossom Arrows. I'm afraid she was hit by the needles."
Pei Xiangjun closed her eyes to regulate her internal breath. Hearing this, she said:
"I've already pulled out the needles. It's the poison of the Golden Leaf Wisteria. I've sealed the qi acupoints. I've taken the White Emperor Pill, which can suppress it. It's okay to wait until we go back to detoxify."
Luo Ning frowned: "Since the poison has been sealed, it's better to force it out. Why wait until we go back? Who knows what will happen in a day or two when we go back?"
Pei Xiangjun moved her lips but didn't say anything.
Ye Jingtang put down the weapons. First, he listened by the window. After confirming that there was nothing abnormal, he took a small medicine box, came to the bedside, and sat down, asking:
"Where was the needle inserted?"
Pei Xiangjun opened her almond-shaped eyes, glanced at Ye Jingtang, and hesitated to speak.
Seeing this, Luo Ning was a bit annoyed: "Charging directly into the formation, it must be on the chest. Untie her clothes and look for it. What time is it already, and you're still being so coy..."
Seeing this, Ye Jingtang didn't care about the small details. He raised his hand and untied the belt of the black martial arts outfit.
Pei Xiangjun looked at the stern face so close to her. Her fingers moved, but in the end, she didn't say anything. Instead, she turned her eyes away and looked at the Madam Leader who was scolding her fiercely:
"You're quite fierce at this moment. When we were fighting just now, you were hiding here and there. I don't know what you were doing. You only made a move once, and I had to pull you back..."
?
Luo Ning's face turned cold: "I was holding a sword. How could I charge forward? We agreed to delay. What were you charging for?"
"I'm a spearman. The way to delay is to press the attack. If I hid behind the tree like you, would they pay attention to you?"
Luo Ning opened her mouth, wanting to refute a few words. But in terms of the ability to break through from the front, she really couldn't compare with the Overlord Spear, so she didn't say anything more and just looked at Ye Jingtang.
Pei Xiangjun stared intently at Luo Ning, trying to put on the posture of a female leader to relieve the complex emotions in her heart, but her face became redder and redder.
Ye Jingtang untied the belt and carefully lifted the black collar, but he didn't see any needle holes on the fabric.
Under the衣襟 was the tightly wrapped black cloth. Her shoulders and waist were white and unmarked.
Seeing this, Ye Jingtang raised his hand, grabbed the edge of the black chest wrap, lifted it slightly, and pulled it down.
Dong~
There were ripples.
The dim yellow light in the room seemed to brighten a bit.
"Oh!" Pei Xiangjun closed her eyes, furrowed her brows, and tightly bit her red lips.
So big... Luo Ning blinked her beautiful peach blossom eyes. Looking at the trembling half-circles, her eyes were strange. After thinking for a while, she said in a low voice:
"With such a figure, you still came to practice martial arts. You're more suitable to be a wet nurse. Don't come out and roam the martial arts world in the future..."
?!
Pei Xiangjun was already extremely embarrassed. Hearing these words, she perked up again, opened her eyes, and retorted:
"Jealous, aren't you? My martial arts are higher than yours, and my figure is better than yours."
"Heh~"
Luo Ning took a breath, making her lapel puff out. It seemed that she was despising the simple-minded Third Lady, but it was obvious that she also wanted to prove herself.
Ye Jingtang didn't interfere in their bickering. After all, if he didn't let them bicker, it would only be more embarrassing.
With a stern and focused expression, he pushed the soft mass on the left up a bit and pressed his finger on the thumb-sized black mark on the skin.
Pei Xiangjun arched her feet, bit her lower lip tightly, stared straight at Luo Ning, and tried her best to make a provocative look.
Luo Ning had a thin skin. She originally wanted to turn her eyes away and not look at the somewhat embarrassing scene. But when she found that this female boss was still provoking her, she stared back without showing any weakness.
Ye Jingtang examined it carefully. There was only one mark. He turned to look around the room:
"I didn't prepare a cupping jar. I'll go find a bamboo tube."
Hearing this, Luo Ning remembered the time when she was forced to be humiliated before. She felt a bit unbalanced — I asked you to find a bamboo tube, and you just did it without caring; but when it comes to the female boss, you consider her feelings?
Do I look easy to bully?
Seeing that Ye Jingtang was about to get up, Luo Ning said:
"There's no bamboo around here. Little rascal, don't you know how to detoxify with your bare hands?"
Pei Xiangjun's eyes became slightly fierce. She originally wanted to say, "Are you kicking me when I'm down?" But after thinking about it, she stopped herself. She gritted her teeth secretly and assumed the demeanor that a female leader should have:
"Given the urgency of the situation, we shouldn't be bound by small details."
Seeing this, Ye Jingtang didn't say anything more. He took a water cup, leaned over, and put his mouth close to...
Zi zi~
Pei Xiangjun's heart and liver trembled violently, and her whole body tensed up a bit. But she forcefully suppressed any abnormal expression. Looking at the most beautiful woman beside her whose face was alternately red and white, she even provocatively raised her eyebrows.
Hmm?
Luo Ning's eyebrows shot up. She really wanted to give Third Lady a beating, but she couldn't move. She gritted her silver teeth. After thinking for a while, she said:
"Little rascal, flick her."
Ye Jingtang was busy and his mouth was numb. He said helplessly:
"Don't joke around at a time like this."
Joking? Seeing Ye Jingtang treating them differently, Luo Ning wanted to argue a few words. But she felt that it was a bit inappropriate, so she gave up.
After Ye Jingtang finished dealing with it, he checked left and right by the candlelight. After confirming that there were no other wounds, he asked:
"Was it just one needle?"
Pei Xiangjun had been looking at Luo Ning all the time to dispel the embarrassment in her heart. Hearing this, she didn't dare to look at the front and just nodded slightly.
Ye Jingtang let out a sigh of relief and looked towards the inside:
"Ning'er, are you sure you're not injured?"
Luo Ning shook her head: "I just got some Snow Moth Scale on me. I can force out the poison myself. I should recover soon. She injured her meridians. Help her with a massage. It seems that the Governor Vessel Meridian is injured, on her back."
Ye Jingtang took out the Jade Dragon Ointment for treating internal injuries. He turned over the Third Lady, who was pretending to be an ostrich with her eyes closed, and made her lie on her side. He could see a red mark along the spine line, starting from the Fengfu Acupoint at the back of her head and extending down to the Yangguan Acupoint...
"What caused this injury?"
Pei Xiangjun said softly: "It's the 'Reversing Blood in Fengchi' among the last two moves of the Overlord Spear. There are family rules. You can only be taught this move after you become the leader of our Honghua Tower."
Ye Jingtang saw Third Lady pierce the shield with a spear and thought that this move was indeed a powerful move. He didn't say much for now. He poured the Jade Dragon Ointment into his hand and gently massaged along the spine.
Luo Ning didn't want to stare at the large soft mass in front of her, so she asked:
"Little rascal, what happened to you just now?"
Ye Jingtang massaged the lower back with his hands and slowly slid down. He slightly furrowed his brows:
"I'm not sure either. When I was channeling my qi, I felt the qi rushing like a galloping horse, directly surging from the soles of my feet to my fists without any... um... resistance. My bones were also very flexible, as if they were lubricated. My body movements were smooth and flowing. As soon as I thought about it, my fist shot out, and I could even control the strength and stop it..."
Luo Ning's expression was focused. After thinking for a while, she said:
"I've never heard Xue Baijin talk about such a change... By the way, the Snow Lake Flower in Tianlang Lake seems to have a miraculous effect of restoring meridians and tempering bones. But it only blooms once every few decades and is guarded by the Beiliang army, so it's impossible to obtain... You probably took medicine containing Snow Lake Flower."
Ye Jingtang did see yesterday that there was a suit of armor in Cheng Shilu's room, which didn't look like the style of the Dawei army. He nodded slightly:
"I guess it's medicine stolen from Beiliang... What kind of medicine is it exactly? I'll try to get a few more pills."
Pei Xiangjun felt her thin pants being lifted. Her face turned red, and she said in a voice as soft as a mosquito:
"I guess it's a divine medicine like the Pulse-Replenishing Pill. Your adoptive father's meridians were completely broken after being beaten back then. He went to live in seclusion in Honghe Town, probably to find the Snow Lake Flower and restore his meridians."
Honghe Town was on the border. If you went out of the pass and walked a few hundred li to the northeast, you would reach Tianlang Lake in Beiliang. Ye Jingtang had also heard of it. Now he said with regret:
"With such medicine in the world, my adoptive father should have told me earlier."
"If he had told you earlier, you would have gone to Beiliang... Jingtang!"
Pei Xiangjun was speaking in a low voice when suddenly she felt a chill at the base of her spine. Her weak body actually turned over violently, pressing Ye Jingtang's hand down. Her eyes were full of shame, anger, and extreme embarrassment:
"From the Fengfu Acupoint to the Yangguan Acupoint, where do you think you're touching?"
"Hmm?"
Ye Jingtang looked a bit confused: "Isn't it the Governor Vessel Meridian? I remember that the Governor Vessel Meridian starts from..."
Pei Xiangjun's face turned red. She wanted to speak but didn't have the strength.
Luo Ning's thoughtful expression turned strange. She said in a low voice:
"It's enough to reach the Yangguan Acupoint on the lower back. Little rascal, you didn't touch..."
Ye Jingtang's expression remained normal. He pulled out the hand that was pressed down by "the moon":
"You didn't tell me clearly. You just said it was the Governor Vessel Meridian, so naturally I applied the medicine along the Governor Vessel Meridian."
Pei Xiangjun's face was as red as blood, and there were even tears in her eyes. She closed her eyes and didn't speak.
Luo Ning looked at the female boss's extremely ashamed and indignant appearance, and she felt much more balanced. She said softly in approval:
"You're not wrong. It's her being coy. She doesn't even understand the principle that 'a patient should not hide anything from the doctor'."
Ye Jingtang blinked his eyes and thought to himself: How dare you say that? When I treated your injuries, you almost scratched me to death while crying and making a fuss...
After applying the medicine, since they hadn't escaped the danger yet, Ye Jingtang didn't have any other thoughts. He just used a black cloth strip to wrap Third Lady up again.
While he was busy, there was a noise outside the window:
"Jiji..."
Ye Jingtang got up and came to the outer room. He opened the door, and the bird landed from the eaves and raised its wing to point into the distance:
"Ji!"
Ye Jingtang knew that the bird had found the hiding place of the murderer. But the effect of the Snow Moth Scale couldn't wear off for a while. He couldn't fight while carrying the two women, and he couldn't leave alone either. So he took out a small bag of dried meat from his waist and handed it to the bird:
"Keep watch around here. Come and wake me up if you feel sleepy."
"Jiji..."
The bird was obviously a bit unhappy that it found the prey but couldn't catch it. But it still grabbed the dried meat with its claws and flew to a big tree nearby...
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On the other side, on a small cargo ship by the river on the outskirts of Guangji City.
From the outside, there was no sign of movement on the cargo ship. But in the cabin under the deck, there was a light on.
Wang Chengjing took off his outer robe. The flesh wound on his side had been wrapped with a white cloth around his waist. Blood was seeping through the cloth. He was holding a needle and thread and was stitching up Wang Er's shoulder.
Wang Er had been hit by two spears in his shoulder, and one was a through injury. Leaning against the wall, his eyes were full of anger:
"This Zhou Ying is really not a good person. He said something like he had fought against Ye Silang before and that you, big brother, could kill him easily... Who the hell is killing whom? Ye Silang is also not like a real master at all. His martial arts are so high, and he even arranged a bunch of obvious and hidden sentries behind him. He didn't even let us run..."
Wang Chengjing also had lingering fears, but his expression was much calmer:
"Once we take the money, we have to judge the situation ourselves. If the employer knows the opponent clearly, why would they hire someone to kill? This Ye Silang is indeed unexpectedly strong. If we had met him alone, the two of us might not have been able to succeed. Let's leave immediately and change to the next target."
Wang Er frowned and said: "Still kill? Just because the depth of Ye Jingtang's martial arts is unknown and he's also a person related to the government, he's not easy to kill. That's why we prioritized dealing with the weaker Ye Silang. If we can't deal with Ye Silang, what if that Ye Jingtang is another freak... Why don't we just leave directly?"
Wang Chengjing shook his head. He knew in his heart that this job wasn't easy, but which killing business was easy?
The two brothers had already offended Jieyun Palace. They could still make a living as rangers, but if they wanted to establish their own sect, it wouldn't be long before they were found.
Wang Chengjing had good martial arts skills. He didn't want to be a ranger licking blood off the blade for the rest of his life. He had to do a big job, get enough funds, and start from scratch in the Beiliang martial arts world to develop his own territory and power.
The Zhou family had made a big offer, but the deposit was only three thousand taels of silver. It was not enough for him to live a carefree life and establish