Chapter 318 Dongfang Sister

Chapter 318 Dongfang Sister

Chapter 318 Dongfang Sister
The sky is full of stars and the riverside is full of lush cattails.

"What should I call you?"

"A name is nothing more than a code name. What's important is that you know who you are."

"In that case, from now on I will call you...Sister Dongfang?"

The oriental girl raised her phoenix eyes slightly, raised her palm and slapped it. The powerful palm force was like a breeze blowing past, and thousands of reeds were bent. Zhang Yu hugged the black iron sword box and begged for mercy, so as not to be blown away by the true energy.

"You don't know who you are!"

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Brother Lan, I'll still call you Brother Lan. You are my elder brother!"

The oriental girl put down her palm and smiled gently.

All beauties suddenly appear, and the stars and the moon pale in comparison.

"What are you looking at?"

"Look at the moon and the stars!"

Zhang Yu quickly raised his head and looked towards the sky.

The oriental girl also looked over, but said, "What's there to see? The moon will set and the stars will disappear in time. The red face and white bones are only a hundred years old. Time is just a drop in the ocean. After a thousand years, where will you and I be? Who knows? Even if they know, what does it have to do with me?"

Fireflies are rising from the rotten grass, and it seems that the future is bright, but several spider webs have been quietly erected above the head. Even if they are brilliant and can escape for a while, they will eventually wither in the web of time.

Many people are unwilling to give up, but how many people throughout history can break through the void and shine with the stars, remaining immortal over the years?

"This wine is strong."

"Time is wrong. I don't get drunk with the spring breeze and autumn moon, and my hair turns white when I wake up from my dream. This is a famous wine in the Linjiang Tower in Hengyang. It tastes pretty good! If you like it, I'll invite you to drink it after I'm done with my work!"

"It's a pity that there's only half a gourd left, so I can't enjoy it to my heart's content!"

The oriental girl smiled and threw the empty gourd back.

"Where are you going next?"

Zhang Yu tied the yellow gourd back around his waist and saw that there seemed to be something strange between her brows.

"East China Sea."

"Walk that far?"

Zhang Yu reacted and asked, "Are you looking for the East China Sea Shark Pearl among the seven main medicines?"

The Oriental girl looked up at the bright moon in the sky and said slowly, "Ancient books record that after the tide receded, the remains of a mermaid tribe appeared under a mountain on Izumo Island in Japan. In addition, the Jianmu fruit and the turbid spring water are also related to the East China Sea. If we find these three things, we will be close to refining the Yin-Yang True Pill."

Zhang Yu asked, "Have you found the four main ingredients?"

The Dongfang girl shook her head: "Only the dragon gallbladder, which was found in Yunnan."

"Are there really dragons in the world?"

Zhang Yu was surprised. When he heard the names of the seven main medicines in Xuanyue Temple, he thought it was a deceptive prescription left by Taoist Zhao Xu and it was not something that should exist in the mortal world.

Later, as my experience and knowledge expanded, I realized that the world is full of wonders and that if I limited my knowledge to my own, it would be like imprisoning myself.

The oriental girl laughed and said, "Humph, what dragon? It's just an old snake that has lived for five hundred years. It spends most of its time hibernating under a hundred-foot cold pond and rarely surfaces. It's just half alive and half dead."

Zhang Yu laughed and said, "Amazing! It hid so deep, but it was finally found out by Brother Lan."

"I didn't find it. The Five Immortals Sect has been rooted in Yunnan for many years. The Sect Leader Lan is young and quite capable. If you want to find some flowers, plants, insects or animals in the future, you can ask her. Martial arts practice is originally about combining internal and external factors. The sky, the earth, the sun and the moon, spring, summer, autumn and winter, yin and yang, the five elements, all things in the world can be used by me. If you stick to your own way, you will be afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind. You will worry about losing before you get it, which will easily lead to deviation from the right path..."

Zhang Yu nodded slightly. He practiced the Bei Ming Magical Art and should be able to draw on the inner strength of martial arts masters for his own use. However, he always felt that it was not his own flesh and blood and could not be applied to him. He did not dare to let go and use it. It was indeed a bit petty.

The Dongfang girl looked at Zhang Yu, observed his aura, and realized that his internal strength was still at the acquired level.

"A person's luck may be predetermined. When luck comes, heaven and earth will work together. When luck is gone, heroes are helpless. You are in your "good luck" now. If you still walk like an old lady with bound feet, it will be too late when luck is gone."

Zhang Yu was quite surprised to hear this. After thinking about it carefully, he kept it in mind and asked curiously, "Are you in luck or out of luck?"

The oriental girl smiled and said, "Neither."

"neither?"

"I am not in the fixed number, and there is no trace to be found."

Zhang Yu pondered over this sentence for a long time, but still couldn't understand its meaning, so he had to let it go.

"You are also friends with the leader of the Five Immortals Sect, Lan? Oh, and your last name is also Lan, could it be that she is..."

The oriental girl glared at him and said, "She gave up the location of the old snake because she needed my help."

"I see. Brother Lan has quite a few friends."

Zhang Yu asked again: "Do you have any clues about the other three main ingredients? Do you need my help?"

"There are clues, but you can't help."

Oriental girls always speak directly.

"Xuanyin Cold Water is kept in Falun Temple in the Great Snow Mountain. Chiyang Grass is a treasure of Lihuo Palace in the Western Regions."

Zhang Yu sighed and said, "It sounds like it's going to be difficult to deal with, and they're not even from the Central Plains."

The oriental girl was not worried. As long as she knew the location and wanted it, the thing would have changed hands.

"These two things... after all, there is a solution. It's nothing more than going to war."

Zhang Yu heard the hidden meaning in her words and asked, "Could it be that the last thing has not been found yet?"

The essence of Gengjin, the gold among golds.

The oriental girl looked at the dark river and frowned slightly.

"I have searched through various classics, and the essence of Gengjin only appears three times."

"Which three times?"

"During the Spring and Autumn Period, Ou Yezi was forging a sword for the King of Yue. While searching in Zhejiang and Fujian, he found five gold crystals in a gold mine, but they disappeared afterwards."

"This time... is really far away."

"In addition, Xu Fu made the elixir for Qin Shi Huang and called on the people to donate treasures. Someone from the people offered this item, but it has disappeared."

"These days, it's not even close."

Zhang Yu said this casually, but seeing that Miss Dongfang's face became increasingly dark and gloomy, he quickly stopped talking.

"Then...what about the third time?"

"The last time was not long ago. During the reign of Emperor Renzong of the former Song Dynasty, Yuan Hao raised an army from the northwest and established the Great White Gao Kingdom. At that time, the Dangxiang tribe found two pieces of Gengjin essence from the gold veins of the Qilian Mountains. One of them was cast into a precious armor by Yuan Hao, which was said to be indestructible. The other was passed down as a national treasure to the last emperor, Li Yu. The Great White Gao Kingdom was destroyed by the Mongol cavalry, but the Mongol people never found the gold essence."

"Later, I heard that Li Yu's son took the gold essence and fled to Heishui City, where the palace and treasures left by Yuan Hao were. He was about to call on his old subordinates to rise up in rebellion, but encountered a sandstorm that was rare in a century. Overnight, the entire city was buried underground. The Mongolian Khan sent tens of thousands of troops, but they couldn't find it."

"Now that three hundred years have passed, it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven to find the Black Water City of the Great White High Country." Zhang Yu lowered his head and thought, the Great White High Country, the city covered by yellow sand, this sounds familiar? If there is a chance, I must ask someone to go to the northwest to inquire if there is a place called 'Longmen'. Maybe the Gengjin gold that Brother Lan is looking for is really hidden there.

"Brother Lan, you can go out to sea without any worries. I will keep an eye on the Gengjin Essence for you."

The oriental girl shook her head slightly: "I'm just saying these things... I'm not asking you to do anything for me."

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Don't you trust me?"

The oriental girl obviously didn't believe him and just thought he was comforting her. She chuckled and said, "What can you do? Can you dig through thousands of miles of yellow sand and find the entrance to Blackwater City inch by inch? The world has changed so much, and the desert environment is especially changeable. Even if you send out a hundred thousand troops, it's just like pouring salt into a water tank."

“A handful of salt sprinkled in a water tank will naturally be bland and tasteless, but a few grains of salt scattered in the right places can produce miraculous effects.”

The oriental girl asked, "What do you know?"

Zhang Yu was not sure in his heart, but he had a vague idea of ​​the direction. He chuckled and said, "Anyway, you will know when the time comes!"

The two talked for half the night. The knowledge of the Dongfang girl in martial arts was much higher than Zhang Yu's. Most of the time, she was the one giving pointers and he listened attentively. Actually, Zhang Yu and Feiyun Shenyuan were master and disciple, but it was the person in front of him who really guided him to master martial arts.

As the night dawned, a half circle of rosy clouds appeared in the sky.

"Leaving now?"

"Do we still need to say goodbye to each other?"

He saved her and she saved him, so the two of them had a life-and-death relationship.

Zhang Yu stood where he was, watching the person in red jump a few times and disappear into the reed marsh in the east.

"Some things really don't need to be said."

“Some friends don’t need to be seen often.”

"When we are together in the same arena, a bottle of wine is enough to comfort us in our lives."

Zhang Yu turned around and walked towards Hengshan City. He hadn't finished his work yet, so he couldn't leave as gracefully as the Oriental girl...

The night passed.

At noon, the Hengshan County Court sent five or six old, weak, sick and disabled constables to walk around the door from a distance. After making sure that everyone inside had left, they went in to take a look, closed the door, sealed it, and left.

What happened in Qun Yuyuan last night has spread throughout Hengshan City.

Some people say that Emperor Yousheng, who was far away in Shuntian Prefecture in the north, had also heard of the fame of the Oriental Courtesan. He was itching to see her beauty day and night, but due to his weak body, he could not come to visit her in person. So he sent the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Wan Chonglou, to lead thousands of soldiers and horses to invite Miss Dongfang to return to the capital.

Just when Wanchonglou's evil plan was about to succeed, Zhang Liyu jumped out, broke into the encirclement, and rescued Miss Dongfang from the Jinyiwei. The two of them lived together and left the city, wandering around the world from then on, never caring about worldly affairs.

The southern country is far away from the capital, and the imperial power has little deterrence on the local area. Those unhappy scholars were more excessive than this in their open praise and hidden criticism, and indirect criticism. Fortunately, although Emperor Yousheng was mediocre, he had an open mind. There were once treacherous flatterers who wanted to use this as an opportunity to start a literary inquisition.

The emperor simply said: "It is a great kindness to be able to make millions of people laugh by enduring the ridicule of me."

In the eyes of the people in the underworld, the imperial court will never have a positive image, not to mention that it involves the Jinyiwei, which should be criticized and denounced. Those who fight against the Jinyiwei will naturally become heroes and knights.

The incident happened last night, and the story was made up this morning.

In the afternoon, in Xiaoxiang Teahouse, the storyteller had already reached the seventh chapter.

"What nonsense! Zhang Liyu? The Yellow River Carp? I've never heard of this guy before. How could a nobody like him save the Oriental girl from those hawks and dogs?"

Some people in the audience expressed disbelief.

Everyone in the martial arts world knows that the Jinyiwei are not given for nothing. Even a well-known martial arts celebrity will have to suffer a lot if he is targeted by those bastards.

"Brother, you just came to Hengshan City, right?"

Dai Dadan peeled a peanut and glanced at the person who was talking. He saw a man in his forties with gray hair, short stature, and a rough voice. Next to him sat a girl in flowery clothes, holding a chopstick in each hand, tapping melon seeds on the table for fun.

"What's the matter? Do you look down on outsiders? I'm from Guanzhong, and I just arrived in Hengshan City today."

"Brother, you are joking. I am not from this area either. I just heard you talking. I don't know what Zhang Liyu did in Hengyang these days, so I made this guess."

The man asked, "Can you tell me what Zhang Liyu did?"

Dai Dabing attended the banquet at Liu's house yesterday and recounted the whole wonderful scene from the beginning.

With an exaggerated tone, he vividly recounted how Zhang Liyu fought against the lecher Tian Boguang and those unworthy disciples of the Qingcheng Sect, and how he saved the innocence of the little nun from the Hengshan Sect.

Even the storyteller on the stage stopped and listened to Dai Dadan's story with great interest. After all, he claimed that he was in Liu's mansion, so the sense of reality was better than that of hearsay.

"...That little nun Yilin is really attractive, much better than Master Dingyi."

Dai Dabing said a lot of things. It was originally a good deed of saving people, but after his last sentence, it became a bit more romantic.

The storyteller nodded slightly. "So that's how it is. It seems that this young hero Zhang is not only a martial arts expert, but also a chivalrous man who always helps the weak and fights against the strong. No wonder he came to the Qun Yuyuan to save Miss Dongfang."

The underworld is in conflict with the imperial court, especially when the other side is the Jinyiwei, and the weak defeats the strong. The story includes knights, beauties, government officials, bullies, and the righteousness of the underworld, which is very valuable for dissemination.

The storyteller secretly decided to expand the eight-chapter storytelling into eighteen chapters.

Inside the Xiaoxiang Teahouse, everyone praised it.

"Humph!"

In the corner, two people occupied a table.

The girl in green snorted coldly and put the teacup heavily on the table to vent her dissatisfaction. It was obviously tea, but she felt like she was drinking wine and tasted like vinegar.

"You filthy thief, damn you!"

Qiu Daqi drank the wine he brought with him while listening to the storytelling on the stage. The storyteller made up stories on the spot and catered to the tastes of the tea drinkers in time. It was quite interesting. What was even more interesting was that he knew the people mentioned in the book.

She looked at Yue Lingshan who was inexplicably sulking, and asked with a smile: "Lingshan, what's wrong with you? Who is the lecherous thief?"

"Who else could it be except Zhang... Liyu?"

Qiu Daqi shook his head and said, "Lingshan, you really misunderstood. He is not that kind of person."

Yue Lingshan said angrily: "Why are all the people he rescued women? And they are all... stunningly beautiful. Are those pretty girls the only ones in the world who need him to save?"

Qiu Daqi chuckled and said, "When you see injustice, you should help. How can you be picky about others? He saved Yi Lin from Hengshan Sect and Miss Dongfang from Qun Yuyuan. I think they just happened to meet. You are a little narrow-minded to look at him like this."

Yue Lingshan looked at her good friend sitting opposite her in confusion.

"Daqi, why do you always speak for him? Do you also know Zhang Liyu?"

Qiu Daqi was a little flustered, and quickly covered up and said, "Of course I know him!"

"In the past two days in Hengshan City, the names I have heard the most, besides Mr. Liu San, are Zhang... Liyu. People in the martial arts world say that he is a great hero!"

Yue Lingshan was relieved and said with a smile: "So that's how it is, Daqi, you can judge a person by his appearance but not his heart, don't be fooled by appearances!"

A bystander sees more clearly. Qiu Daqi looked at the girl in blue and couldn't help feeling a little sympathy.

(End of this chapter)